The Political Ecology of Informal Waste Recyclers in India: Circular Economy, Green Jobs, and Poverty

ISBN-13: 9780192869050 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 224 str.

Dr Federico (Assistant Professor of Ecological Economics and

Recenzje

Drawing from many cases but particularly from the Delhi waste conflict around privatization of waste and introduction of incineration, the book traces back the struggles of workers and allies and makes a powerful call for the recognition of the crucial role informal waste workers make to the environment and the economy. The book makes a critical contribution to the growing knowledge of waste pickers by studying not only through a poignant narrative of conflicts and struggles but also by introducing key concepts for understanding the threats and the struggles for resistance.

O autorze

Federico Demaria is an Associate Professor in Ecological Economics and Political Ecology at the University of Barcelona, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Autonomous University of Barcelona. His research aims to inform theory on how environments are shaped, politicized, and contested. He is an editor of the journal Sustainability Science, and a member of the editorial board of Ecological Economics. He is also an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has been a visiting scholar at research centres in India, China, USA, UK, Netherlands, Croatia, Germany, and Italy. He is the co-editor of Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era (2014) and Pluriverse: A Post-development Dictionary (2019), and a co-author of The Case for Degrowth (2020).