Uganda's capital, Kampala, is undergoing dramatic urban transformations
as its new technocratic government seeks to clean and green the city.
Waste Worlds tracks the dynamics of development and disposability
unfolding amid struggles over who and what belong in the new Kampala.
Garbage materializes these struggles. In the densely inhabited social
infrastructures in and around the city's waste streams, people, places,
and things become disposable but conditions of disposability are also
challenged and undone. Drawing on years of ethnographic research, Jacob
Doherty illustrates how waste makes worlds, offering the key
intervention that disposability is best understood not existentially, as
a condition of social exclusion, but infrastructurally, as a form of
injurious social inclusion.