Patrick O'Hare is a social anthropologist and activist. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge and is currently a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Senior Researcher at the University of St Andrews.
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Introduction: 'La Basura Es de los Pobres' - 'Rubbish Belongs to the Poor'
1. 'All because We Bought Those Damn Trucks': Hygienic Enclosure and Infrastructural Modernity
2. The Mother Dump: Montevideo's Landfill Commons
3. Classifiers' Kinship and Embedded Waste
4. Care, (Mis)Classification, and Containment at the Aries Recycling Plant
5. Precarious Labour Organising and 'Urban Alambramiento'
Conclusion: Circular Economies, New Enclosures, and the Commons Sense
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