News reports, journal articles, essays, reviews and blog posts on topics of waste, work and survival in India, informality, recycling and circular economy.
India’s plastic waste crisis is too big, even for Modi
Niharika Sharma
Arundhati Roy / 2020
Lockdown Diaries: Relief to the wastepickers in the times of the pandemic
Lucía Fernandez /
Inside the Controversial World of Slum Tourism
National Geographic /
Empowering the empowered? Slum tourism and the depoliticization of poverty
Melissa Nisbett / 2017
Smart Cities and Banality of Power
Ayona Datta / 2019
How The Dream Of ‘Clean India’ Ignores Ragpickers Who Work For Little Money And No Rights
Abhimanyu Kumar / 2016
Waste pickers and their right to the city Dispossession and displacement in nineteenth-century Paris and contemporary Montevideo
Lucía Fernandez / 2017 / PDF download