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✊ it presents 70 cases of waste-related #conflicts involving waste pickers, collected with the contribution of more than 50 activists and researchers from all over the world, the ejatlas.org, the IAWP @globalrec.bsky.social and WIEGO - Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing
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This edited volume explores how the modern waste management policies of #wastecapitalism marginalise informal recyclers across the Global South - and how waste pickers resist through grassroots organising and #environmentaljustice struggles
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Our new book is finally out!! 🚨📚

➡️ "Contested Waste: Environmental Conflicts and Waste Picker Resistance in The Global South"

It was a privilege to work with @federicodemaria.bsky.social and Lucia Fernandez on this edited volume exploring the marginalisation and the struggles of #wastepickers 🧵⤵️