reading room
Compound 13 Lab is just one of many individuals and organisations working with the people of Dharavi and communities across Mumbai. Our practical work and research builds upon the rich tapestry of initiatives that combine education with creative enquiry, provide access to resources and evidence based solutions for communities and young people on the ground.
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G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture
PUKAR Partners for Urban Knowledge and Research
SPARC Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers
ETC Group
WIEGO: Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organising
Reinventing Dharavi - An Ideas Compendium
PARI: People's Archive of Rural India
Conflictorium - Museum of Conflict
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PROJECTS ELSEWHERE
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on the subject of plastics, waste and recycling
Revolution Plastics (University of Plymouth)
Centre for Sustainable Curating
Governing Plastics Network (UK)
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on forms of radical pedagogy
Hazardous Travels and Toxic Commons
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at the intersections of art, ecology and social change
The Arts, Environmental Justice, and the Ecological Crisis (British Art Studies)
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News reports, journal articles, essays, reviews and blog posts on topics of waste, work and survival in India, informality, recycling and circular economy
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Global Treaty to end Plastics Pollution
WWF / 2022
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Waste management has a data problem. This approach can fix it.
Swati Singh Sambyal / 2023
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Less plastic or more recycling – nations split ahead of treaty talks
Joe Lo / 2023
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Brussels tables new reuse and recycling targets to slash packaging waste.
Kiera Taylor / 2022
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Shaping our Cities and Urban Spaces: Arts and humanities research is addressing the complex challenges facing communities
UK Research and Innovation / 2022
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Plastics: A Carbon Copy of the Climate Crisis
Ketan Joshi / 2021
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Waste Narratives / 2020
Why Turkey became Europe’s garbage dump
By Selin UÄžURTAÅž / 2020
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Political Ecologies of Waste: Salvaged Livelihoods and Infra-structural Labour
Benjamin Irvine / 2019
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ndia’s plastic waste crisis is too big, even for Modi
Niharika Sharma / 2019
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What a Waste 2.0 A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Mangement to 2050
The World Bank
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Arundhati Roy / 2020
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CIEL What is the human and environmental cost of new technology?
Centre for International and Environmental Law / 2019
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Lockdown Diaries: Relief to the wastepickers in the times of the pandemic
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Smart Cities and Banality of Power
Ayona Datta / 2019
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India bans imports of waste plastic to tackle environmental crisis
Harry Cockburn / 2019
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Lucía Fernandez / 2020
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Inside the Controversial World of Slum Tourism
Christine Bednarz, National Geographic / 2018
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Things We Do - The Rural and the Urban: Women
Peoples Archive of Rural India / 2018
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One of Asia’s largest slums is luring shoppers with the Internet of Things
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Empowering the empowered? Slum tourism and the depoliticization of poverty
Melissa Nisbett / 2017​
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China: the secret lives of urban waste pickers
Tang Damin / 2017
e-scrap news
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How The Dream Of ‘Clean India’ Ignores Ragpickers Who Work For Little Money And No Rights
Abhimanyu Kumar / 2016
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Untouchable to indispensable: the Dalit women revolutionising waste in India
Carlin Carr / 2014
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Women’s waste picker cooperative in New Delhi transforms recyclables into art
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Infrastructure for waste pickers - Reclaim, Revalue, Reframe
Waste Picker integration Project, Melanie Samson, Durban South Africa
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