Contents

pp iii-iv

List of figures and tables

pp v-v

Abbreviations

pp vi-vii

Notes on contributors

pp viii-x

Acknowledgements

pp xi-xii

one - Introduction: narratives of organising waste in the city

pp 1-18

Part I - Spaces, places and sites of waste in the city

pp 19-20

two - The ecological and environmental significance of urban wastelands and drosscapes

pp 21-40

three - The function of waste urban infrastructures as heterotopias of the city: narratives from Gothenburg and Managua

pp 41-60

Part II - Global waste discourses and narratives shaping local practices

pp 61-62

four - When clean and green meets the Emerald Isle: contrasting waste governance narratives in Ireland and New Zealand

pp 63-82

five - Waste in translation: global ideas of urban waste management in local practice

pp 83-96

Part III - Waste governance and management practices

pp 97-98

six - Governance in a bottle

pp 99-120

seven - Hybrid organisations in waste management: public and private organisations in a deregulated market environment

pp 121-138

eight - Waste management companies: critical urban infrastructural services that design the sociomateriality of waste

pp 139-156

Part IV - Waste and environmental, economic and social justice

pp 157-158

nine - Cairo’s contested waste: the Zabaleen’s local practices and privatisation policies

pp 159-180

ten - Ecomodern discourse and localised narratives: waste policy, community mobilisation and governmentality in Ireland

pp 181-200

eleven - Waste collection as an environmental justice issue: a case study of a neighbourhood in Bristol, UK

pp 201-222

twelve - Conclusions: framing the organising of waste in the city

pp 223-236

Index

pp 237-242