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        The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability

        by Manisha Anantharaman

        ISBN: 9780262546973

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 2, 2024

        An ethnographic and community-engaged study of the class, caste, and gender politics of environmental mobilizations around Bengaluru, India's discards.
        Discard Studies

        Discard Studies

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        Wasting, Systems, and Power

        by Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky

        ISBN: 9780262543651

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 24, 2022

        An argument that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things.
        Hybrid Nature

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        Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the Industrial Ecosystem

        by Daniel Schneider

        ISBN: 9780262516389

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 30, 2011

        A history of of the industrial ecosystem that focuses on the biological sewage treatment plant as an early example.
        History of Shit

        History of Shit

        History of Shit

        by Dominique Laporte

        Translated by Rodolphe el-Khoury and Nadia Benabid

        ISBN: 9780262621601

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 22, 2002

        "A brilliant account of the politics of shit. It will leave you speechless."Sylvere Lotringer, Editor, Semiotext(e) and Professor of French & Comparative Literatures, Columbia University
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