The Visibility and Invisibility of Caste(d) Waste Management Infrastructures in Delhi

Agarwal, Aparna (2025) The Visibility and Invisibility of Caste(d) Waste Management Infrastructures in Delhi. Economic and Political Weekly, 60 (28). ISSN 2349-8846

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Abstract

Delhi today is facing a burgeoning waste “management” crisis. Newspapers frequently report blazing fires around landfill sites, strikes by sanitation workers or lack of infrastructural facilities, and the subsequent challenges faced by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to deal with this crisis. This paper addresses two parallel yet interconnected waste management infrastructures—public–private partnership-led waste management services and the Bhalswa landfill in north-west Delhi—to examine how infrastructures are strategically “visibilised” by the former to project a sanitised, hygienic, casteless, and citizen-oriented image of the city’s municipality, and “invisibilised” by the latter to conceal the casteist, dirty, and putrid reality of the city.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Political Science
Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Public Policy
Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Sociology
Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Urban Studies
JGU School/Centre: Jindal School of Government and Public Policy
Depositing User: Mr. Gautam Kumar
Date Deposited: 04 Dec 2025 10:20
Last Modified: 04 Dec 2025 10:20
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.71279/epw.v60i28.42983
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/10445

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