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  • Journal Articles

    Public Space, Public Waste, and the Right to the City

    Abstract: I draw on my experiences as an organizer with a waste-pickers collective, Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat in Pune, India,...

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  • Journal Articles

    Amplifying voice, visibility and validity. Waste pickers in Jo’burg citySouth African Labour Bulletin

    The November/December 2017 edition of the South African Labour Bulletin features the article, “Amplifying voice, visibility and validity....

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  • Journal Articles

    Wasted Citizenship: Reclaimers and the Privatised Expansion of the Public Sphere

    Dakar, Senegal: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa.

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  • Journal Articles

    Rescaling the State, Restructuring Social Relations

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  • Working Papers

    Eficiência e Solidariedade nas Associações de Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis

    As associações e cooperativas de catadores são formadas a partir da situação de vulnerabilidade social dos seus membros. A maior parte dos...

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Options for Organizing Waste Pickers in South Africa

     This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs.

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  • Research Reports

    Enfrentando a Crise: Recessão Persistente, Inflação Crescente, e a Força de Trabalho Informal

    Report available in English here. Relatório disponível em português aqui. Informe disponible en español aquí.  

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  • Research Reports

    Role of Informal Recyclers in Small and Medium Towns in India

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  • Research Reports

    Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Catadoras e Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis de Bogotá, Colômbia

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Refusing to be Cast Aside: Waste Pickers Organising Around the World

    This book is organised around some of the key themes related to the organising of waste pickers and their integration into municipal waste...

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