2019
DOI: 10.1111/dech.12533
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The Urbanization of the Sanitation Crisis: Placing Waste in the City

Abstract: Sanitation systems are the most vital provisions in a city. Today, however, the global sanitation crisis is urbanizing, and growing numbers of city residents live with the struggle and consequences of not having safe, reliable facilities. While there is a large and vibrant literature on sanitation and cities, we have yet to account for the specifically urban nature of the deepening sanitation crisis in the global South. This article sets out a framework for understanding the dimensions of the urban sanitation … Show more

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“…The transformations of postcolonial hygiene and sanitation infrastructures in urban India as in other parts of the global south (McFarlane, 2019) stretch as an uneven urban dowry (Kaika & Swyngedouw, 2008). Infrastructure mediates connection and disconnection from the home to the city level (McFarlane, 2019;Morales, 2016). While safe hygiene practices sustained by social norms are necessary for population health (Curtis et al, 2011), the uneven availability of access to infrastructures disadvantages already marginalised groups.…”
Section: Cleanliness Infrastructures Class Caste Gender and Citizenshipmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The transformations of postcolonial hygiene and sanitation infrastructures in urban India as in other parts of the global south (McFarlane, 2019) stretch as an uneven urban dowry (Kaika & Swyngedouw, 2008). Infrastructure mediates connection and disconnection from the home to the city level (McFarlane, 2019;Morales, 2016). While safe hygiene practices sustained by social norms are necessary for population health (Curtis et al, 2011), the uneven availability of access to infrastructures disadvantages already marginalised groups.…”
Section: Cleanliness Infrastructures Class Caste Gender and Citizenshipmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Diseases such as cholera, tuberculosis, schistosomiasis, trachoma and helminthiasis are all more prevalent in dense and poor areas ( Neiderud, 2015 ). Ebola spurred investment in sanitation in poorer dense urban spaces in Africa, albeit in a patchwork way ( Mis, 2014 ; Nyamalon, 2015 ) – if COVID-19 is to catalyse radical change, then what is needed is not another density pathology and sanitation syndrome, but a refocusing on infrastructure for urban life as integral to the politics of form ( McFarlane, 2019 ).…”
Section: Revaluing Densitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Politics of On-Site Sanitation: Producing Flows and Differentiated Citizenship Sanitation is a crucial element of urban life and of how citizens and cities define themselves as modern (Laporte 2002;McFarlane 2019). In particular, safe disposal of excreta is often associated with "good" citizenship, aesthetics of public spaces, public health, and hygiene (Chakrabarty 2002).…”
Section: The Politics Of Waterborne Diseases: Pathways Of Water Contamination and Disease Transmissionmentioning
confidence: 99%