Waste, Social Order, and Physical Disorder in Small-Town India
研究了印度小城镇废弃物经济中的资本循环、非正规性理论以及地方政府管理困境，揭示社会与经济分割如何驱动非正规关系，对关注发展中国家废弃物治理的学者有参考价值。
India’s waste is growing fast; so is its research, and so is the informal economy in which it is embedded. Here research on a small-town waste economy (WE) is situated in the literature on urban informal waste, making three contributions. First, an analytical grid is placed over this small-town formal-informal waste economy in terms of its circuits of capital in the generation of waste. These comprise factory production, physical and economic distribution, consumption, the production of labour and the reproduction of society. Second, field evidence for this waste economy is used to interrogate the three prevailing approaches to theorising informality, revealing how social and economic segmentation can simultaneously drive all three theorised relationships in a complementary fashion. Third, the municipal government’s fragmented architecture and informal bureaucratic behaviour reveal not only severely compromised management capacities but also the local state’s paradoxical dependence on, and distance from, the informal waste economy.