Everyday Circularity: Informal Labour and the SWaCH Model in Pune, India
摘要
The historical, demographic, and political-economic circumstances of Pune must be taken into consideration in order to comprehend the formation of the SWaCH cooperative and the larger Zero-Garbage initiatives in the city [1]. The trash management situation in Pune is representative of larger trends that are typical of fast urbanizing cities in the Global South: rapid population growth, poor municipal infrastructure, reliance on unorganized labour, and the ongoing failure of capital-intensive, centralized waste management plans. These forces gave rise to a unique kind of resourceful urbanism where local communities and marginalized labour reshaped the politics of garbage.