Informal workers produce economic, social, and environmental value for cities. Too often,
policy elites, including those promoting sustainable cities, overlook this value, proposing …

The poor and working people in cities of the South find themselves in urban spaces that are
conventionally construed as places to reside or inhabit. But what if we thought of popular …

In Remaindered Life Neferti XM Tadiar offers a new conceptual vocabulary and framework
for rethinking the dynamics of a global capitalism maintained through permanent imperial …

A number of texts have addressed desires for and iterations of freedom throughout the Black
diaspora. Although conceptualizations of freedom are often employed and interrogated in …

Cities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. From broken
toilets and everyday things, to art and forms of writing, fragments are signatures of urban …

As the social sciences undergo an infrastructural turn, geographers have taken steps to
broaden, disrupt, and reconceptualise understandings of infrastructure and its relationship to …

My essay focuses on the marginalised people whose livelihoods depend on gathering,
sorting, transporting and selling garbage in India's huge informal economy, livelihoods now …

This article conceptualises the circular economy as a space of immaterial, as well as
material, metabolic flows mediated by capitalism and planetary urbanisation. World-ecology …

This study explores women waste pickers' perceptions and embodied experiences of
wellbeing in Ahmedabad, India. Waste pickers are self-employed urban workers who collect …

1 In her pathbreaking essay on modes of production of urban space in the global South,
anthropologist Teresa Caldeira (2017) deploys the concept of “peripheral urbanization” to …