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Author(s): Kaveri Gill
ISBN(s): 9780198060864, 0198060866
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 7.34 MB
Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0198060866

ISBN 13: 9780198060864 

Author: Kaveri Gill 

Of Poverty and Plastic applies an interdisciplinary, ‘field economics’ approach to poverty analysis, using a mix of survey and ethnographic data to challenge received notions of the nature and extent of narrow income poverty and multiple deprivations experienced by those working in the informal waste recovery and plastic recycling economy of Delhi.

A detailed analysis of specialization, capital, and value in various segments of this labor-intensive, ‘green’ informal market is undertaken, with explicit recognition of its wider social and political institutional context, and how it is shaped by unequal interactions with civil society and the state. In particular, the book focuses on the identity and agency of subordinate scheduled caste groups-living literally and metaphorically on the edge of the city-in negotiating ‘a decent life’ in today’s neoliberal environment.

The case studies of the ban on recycled polythene bags and the industrial relocation order illustrate the channels through which these actors collectively seek to resist the perceived anti-urban poor status quo, driven by powerful middle class coalitions through legislation or judicial fiat, with varying degrees of success. In doing so, the book exposes the complex, and at times contrary, policy reality binding poverty and deprivation, formal and informal markets, the state and citizenship in contemporary urban India.

Table of contents:

Acknowledgements, List of Abbreviations, List of Tables and Figures, List of Photographs, Map
1. Introduction
2. The City of Delhi
3. Waste as Informal Sector Work: Measuring Income Poverty, Inequality, and Deprivation
4. Interlinked Contracts and Social Power: Patronage and Exploitation in India’s Waste Recovery Market
5. Exploitation or Entrepreneurship? Scrap Traders and the Economics of Survival in the Informal Market Economy
6. From Pigs and Pollution to Plastics and Progress: Recasting Low Caste Status in India’s Expanding Informal Economy
7. ‘Bourgeois Environmentalism’, the State, the Judiciary and the Urban Poor: The Political Mobilization of a Scheduled Caste Market
8. Conclusion.
Methodological Note, Plastics Appendix, Bibliography, Index.

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