Stench and sensibilities: On living with waste, animals and microbes in India

Doron, Assa

doi:10.1111/taja.12380

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“…If smells are accompanied by flies the impacts are considerably intensified by the noise, annoyance and fear of disease (Doron 2021). A tourism business recounted serious problems with flies from a newly built IPU close by, which distressed guests and triggered concerns about the future viability of the business.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Contesting countryside smells: The power of intensive livestock odours

Caffyn

2021

Journal of Rural Studies

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Contesting countryside smells: The power of intensive livestock odours

Caffyn

2021

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…Similarly, stench and smell, as experienced in and around waste, open garbage dumps, larger landfi lls, slums and waste-pickers, has been identifi ed as a main source of ritual pollution, risk, and exclusionary cultural politics. Emergence of dirty, decaying, diseased, and pathogenicity can be addressed by the knowledge of smell (Doron 2020).…”

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Caste, Environment Justice, and Intersectionality of Dalit–Black Ecologies

Sharma

2022

Environment and Society

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Caste and race, Dalits and Black people, and the common ground between them have been analyzed in many areas, but their conjunction in the environmental field has been neglected. This article locates Dalit ecologies by examining the close connection between caste and nature. Drawing from a plural framework of environmental justice and histories of environmental struggles among African Americans, it focuses on historical and contemporary ecological struggles of Dalits. It contemplates how their initial articulations under the rubric of civil rights developed into significant struggles over issues of Dalit access, ownership, rights, and partnership regarding natural resources, where themes of environmental and social justice appeared at the forefront. The intersections between Dalit and Black ecologies, the rich legacies of Black Panthers and Dalit Panthers, and their overlaps in environmental struggles open for us a new historical archive, where Dalit and Black power can talk to each other in the environmental present.

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“…In the process, it turns them into dispensable subjects in an extractive regime (Prasse-Freeman 2021). For instance, dumping grounds destroy biodiversity and pull animals and humans into new zones of contact that are rife with the possibility of zoonosis (Doron 2021). Research on waste pickers in India finds that they lack protective gear and have disproportionately high rates of injuries, eye and stomach infections, psychiatric disorders, and substance abuse, and that their poor health leads to additional economic burdens (Ananthakrishnan and Patil 2013;Chokhandre, Singh, and Kashyap 2017).…”

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Waste's translations

Chitra

2021

American Ethnologist

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Mumbai's dumping grounds, located on the city's estuarine edge, are sites where garbage and marsh are turned into salable land. This process of translating waste into land depends on keeping matter, beings, and landscapes separate and on limiting their interactions. Yet waste and the marsh interact and transform in ways that escape managerial discourse, revealing a haze of category and control errors that complicate knowledge, agency, and responsibility. While developers translate waste to land in relation to developmental goals, fishing communities, scientists, and activists translate it differently: scientists translate it in relation to chemical properties, interactions, and timelines; marine-life activists draw attention to its coastal ecologies; and fisher communities look for productive possibilities on a polluted shore. These translations attend to the inseparability of waste substances from the coast and its futures. They articulate a politics that acknowledges waste's sociopolitics, material agency, temporalities, and multispecies ethics. [coast, waste, development, pollution, marine life, ecology, chemistry, Mumbai]

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Stench and sensibilities: On living with waste, animals and microbes in India

Cited by 30 publications

References 32 publications

Contesting countryside smells: The power of intensive livestock odours

Contesting countryside smells: The power of intensive livestock odours

Caste, Environment Justice, and Intersectionality of Dalit–Black Ecologies

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