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Theoretical commentary explores the politics of urban waste and sanitation, highlighting how non-human elements and spatial rights shape city life.
This response to commentaries on my book, Waste and the City , reflects on the relationship between waste, the urban imagination, and politics. This includes the question of how to operationalise a 'right to citylife' approach, how to think about the geographies of the urban in relation to sanitation, and the constitutive role of the more-than-human in shaping sanitation geographies and politics.
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