This paper investigates the ways that 'cleaning up'Indian cities impacts those who rely on
accessing waste on city streets for their livelihoods. I focus on low-income Dalit women …

Decentralisation and the flexible combination of infrastructures and technologies are
advocated to expand access to safe sanitation amid rapid urbanization, worsening water …

What are the cultural politics of what becomes recognised as sustainable consumption and
consequently good environmental citizenship? And how does this contour who is able to …

As India, a country with a complex relationship with cleanliness, modernizes rapidly, urban
infrastructures are increasing even faster than the growing population. This paper explores …

Sorting waste at-source (or household recycling) helps optimize the efficiency of waste
management systems and safeguard the health of waste handlers. Recently, segregation of …

Conventional approaches to solid waste management have often proven unaffordable and
ineffective. This paper analyses the lessons from Ahmedabad, India. It finds that clear …

Diaspora diplomacy blurs the traditional conceptual dichotomies that map domestic and
foreign policymaking efforts. Addressing how such distinctions are varyingly produced …

Events like the COVID-19 pandemic can become what Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey have
called 'binding crises':'events with the clarity and immediacy of a terrifying threat'(2018: 12) …

Abstract The Swachh Bharat Mission-Rural (SBM-R) is a flagship programme aimed at
ending open defecation in rural India. In this paper, we study institutions and processes …

Community radio in India operates within a clear framework of development. This calls into
question the fundamental purpose of community radio: communication rights, activism …