Episode 234: L. Joy Is Talking Trash (and sanitation)
There is the trash we throw away like plastics, styrofoam, cardboard and paper. There is the waste from humans as well as animals and the like. How we manage these things with sanitation, or don’t manage them properly, has effects on the environment, people’s health, and a myriad of other issues. To have this conversation on sanitation, because we aren't going to produce less waste anytime soon, making this issue an imperative, L. Joy brings professor Colin McFarlane to the front of the class.
Homework:
Read: Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife by Professor Colin McFarlane https://www.versobooks.com/products/917-waste-and-the-city
Check out Professor Barbara Evans, chair in Public Health Engineering in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds work the professor mentioned https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/civil-engineering/staff/478/professor-barbara-evans
Check out the Orangi Pilot Project http://www.opp.org.pk/
Read: Ecological Sanitation--a way to solve global sanitation problems? By Günter Langergraber & Elke Muellegger (NIH) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15734195/
Our Guest:
Colin McFarlane is Principal Investigator on DenCity and Professor of Urban Geography at Durham University, UK. His work focuses on urban experience and politics, including research on urban living, densities, fragments, and learning across different cities, focusing in particular on the economic margins. In the DenCity project, his work has focussed on how high urban densities are shaped and lived in different domains, including density and crowds in public space, on the move, and in the neighborhood and home. He is author of ‘Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife’ (Verso), ‘Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban Worlds’ (University of California Press) and ‘Learning the City: Knowledge and Translocal Assemblage’ (Blackwell), and a series of edited books, including: ‘Global Urbanism: Knowledge, Power and the City’ (Routledge, with Michele Lancione), ‘Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn?’ (Routledge, with Simon Marvin and Andres Luque-Ayala), ‘Infrastructural Lives: Urban Infrastructure in Context’ (Earthscan-Routledge, with Steve Graham), ‘Urban Navigations: Politics, Space and the City in South Asia’ (Routledge, with Jonathan Anjaria), and ‘Urban Informalities: Reflections on the Formal and Informal’ (Ashgate, with Michael Waibel).
