Dana Kornberg will be presenting: Casteing Capitalism and the Persistence of Informal Recycling in Delhi

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Dana Kornberg is an urban ethnographer and qualitative sociologist whose research examines issues of environmental and economic justice in India and the United States. She is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work investigates institutions such as waste collection and recycling systems, water utilities, and local businesses to illuminate how global capitalism, colonial and state power, and racial and caste hierarchies are reproduced and contested.

Abstract: Every day, millions of middle-class and elite residents across Delhi hand over their waste to people equipped with little more than bare hands, carts, and plastic sacks. These informal collectors remove waste from sight,  recycling it into money and making the city more livable. Yet these same workers—overwhelmingly oppressed-caste Muslim and Dalit men—are stigmatized and face multiple
threats of dispossession. In this talk, I examine how informal recyclers continue to access household waste and compete with formalized collection trucks in middle-class, predominantly dominant-caste neighborhoods. I show that their persistence is enabled by a gendered labor arrangement that aligns with dominant-caste notions of convenience—notions that are predicated on forms of casteist servility. I argue that these transactional pathways play a key structural role in casteing capitalism: the cultural and material valuation processes through which caste relations are embodied, reproduced, and potentially transformed in contemporary India.

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Myra Marx Ferree presenting.

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Elisa Avila presenting. 

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