{"id":2184,"date":"2021-01-29T16:23:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T15:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/husscovid.micheldurinx.opalstacked.com\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2021-01-29T16:23:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T15:23:24","slug":"covid-19-as-method-managing-the-ubiquity-of-waste-and-waste-collectors-in-india-tridibesh-dey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/covidsociety\/2021\/01\/29\/covid-19-as-method-managing-the-ubiquity-of-waste-and-waste-collectors-in-india-tridibesh-dey\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 as method: Managing the ubiquity of waste and waste-collectors in India (Tridibesh Dey)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>By <a href=\"mailto:t.dey@exeter.ac.uk\">Tridibesh Dey<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Events like the COVID-19 pandemic can become what Assa Doron and\u00a0Robin Jeffrey have called \u2018binding crises\u2019: \u2018events with the clarity and\u00a0immediacy of a terrifying threat\u2019 (2018: 12), impacting the rich and the\u00a0poor, the powerful and the powerless \u2013 though unevenly. Binding crises of the past (like the 1842 Great Fire of Hamburg, the 1858 Great\u00a0Stink in London and the 1896 Bombay plague) have led to ubiquitous\u00a0reforms in sanitation and waste management practices, most notably\u00a0landmark innovations in modern sewerage systems. In what follows,\u00a0I draw on ethnographic research, conducted discontinuously over five\u00a0years (2015\u20132019), around municipal solid waste management (MSWM),\u00a0and the political ecology of informal plastic recycling in the city of\u00a0Ahmedabad,\u00a0India. I argue that the current pandemic may constitute\u00a0such a binding event as freelance waste-collection networks are paralysed\u00a0by the lockdown and \u2018authorised\u2019 modes of waste collection are\u00a0prioritised, leading to a novel \u2018infrastructuring\u2019 of emerging relations\u00a0between human bodies and wasted things.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/covidsociety\/files\/2021\/01\/Dey_-COVID-19-as-method_Journal-of-Legal-Anthropology.pdf\">Download the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tridibesh Dey Events like the COVID-19 pandemic can become what Assa Doron and\u00a0Robin Jeffrey have called \u2018binding crises\u2019: \u2018events with the clarity and\u00a0immediacy of a terrifying threat\u2019 (2018: 12), impacting the rich and the\u00a0poor, the powerful and the powerless \u2013 though unevenly. 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