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Public Space, Public Waste, and the Right to the City

By on August 01, 2016

Abstract: I draw on my experiences as an organizer with a waste-pickers collective, Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat in Pune, India, to reflect on the power dynamics in control of public space. The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), a public body, has used public resources to facilitate and enable accumulation by private companies, who have not been able to produce what they had committed to in the processing of waste. The waste pickers, in alliance with affected village-based land agitation committees, have mobilized against the dumping that is ruining their way of life, environments, and health, and are fighting for their own integration into waste value chains. The article uses the frame of David Harvey’s1 “right to the city”; a key part of the mobilizing work with waste pickers has been Freirean conscientization methods to spread awareness of the economic importance, to the city and to the planet, of waste recycling.

 

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Chikarmane, Poornima. Public Space, Public Waste, and the Right to the City. , , . , 2016. Chikarmane, P. (2016). Public Space, Public Waste, and the Right to the City. , , . Chikarmane, Poornima. "Public Space, Public Waste, and the Right to the City." 2016, .Chikarmane Poornima. "Public Space, Public Waste, and the Right to the City." (2016). Chikarmane, P 2016, 'Public Space, Public Waste, and the Right to the City', , , . Poornima Chikarmane, 'Public Space, Public Waste, and the Right to the City' (2016). Chikarmane P. Public Space, Public Waste, and the Right to the City. . 2016. Chikarmane, Poornima. Public Space, Public Waste, and the Right to the City. . 2016. , .

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