Modern waste disposal systems in mega-cities of the global South are embedded in socio-cultural
belief systems colonial histories and neoliberal logics which operate by reproducing existing
social hierarchies. Sneha Sharma critically interrogates the politics around urban waste
disposal in Mumbai India by undertaking an ethnographic journey to the city's most unwanted
space a dumping site. She challenges the dominant techno-managerial paradigm in waste
management and reveals how spaces and people are made into waste through exclusionary social
practices. Offering new insights on topics of urban marginality informality and urban
planning this book will attract scholars from sociology urban studies and human geography.
