Anantharaman, Manisha <br/><br/>
Recycling class: The contradictions of inclusion in urban sustainability  

 - London  The MIT Press  2023 
 - xii, 275 p.  Includes bibliographical reference and index 
<br/><br/> In Recycling Class, Manisha Anantharaman examines the ideas, flows, and relationships around unmanaged discards in Bengaluru, India, itself a massive environmental problem of planetary proportions, to help us understand what types of coalitions deliver social justice within sustainability initiatives. Recycling Class links middle-class, sustainable consumption with the environmental labor of the working poor to offer a relational analysis of urban sustainability politics and practice. Through ethnographic, community-based research, Anantharaman shows how diverse social groups adopt, contest, and modify neoliberal sustainability’s emphasis on market-based solutions, behavior change, and the aesthetic conflation of “clean” with “green 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262546973 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> textual  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Recycling industry <br/>Urban sustainability, Bengaluru  <br/>Environmentalism development