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Séminaire “Sens Ecologique(s)” – 14 février – Manisha Anantharaman – Recycling Class

Le collectif Sens écologique(s) a le plaisir de recevoir Manisha Anantharaman (CSO, Sciences Po ; https://www.manishaanantharaman.com/

pour une présentation intitulée “From Infrastructural Labor to Entrepreneurial Environmentalisms”. Cette séance aura lieu le mercredi 14 février 2024 de 16h à 18h, en salle CS16 à Sciences Po au 1, place Saint-Thomas 75007 Paris. La séance se tiendra en format hybride.

Le séminaire est ouvert à tout.e.s sur inscription (obligatoire) en remplissant le formulaire suivant : https://forms.gle/dxiDy8VeWdC4LvRUA

Résumé de la présentation :

In the context of elite-dominated environmental “neoliberal sustainability” agendas that deny ecological legitimacy to the poor and favor privatization and marketization as solutions to environmental problems, how do groups who are threatened by elite-driven sustainability initiatives protect their livelihoods and interests? And what does an examination of the claims-making strategies utilized by excluded constituencies tell us about the ways in which dominant urban sustainability discourses constrain or encourage possibilities for involvement and action by highly marginalized groups? In this talk, Manisha Anantharaman will draw on her recent book Recycling Class: The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability, to juxtapose elite “performative environmentalism” (often (mis)labeled as sustainable consumption) with the environmental labor of the working poor to offer some reflections on the class politics of urban ecological  transitions. 

Drawing on a long-term study in Bengaluru, she will discuss how groups representing waste pickers created a new mode of entrepreneurial environmentalism that put a spin on the environmentalism of the poor— a term usually used to describe the struggles of working-class, rural peasants and forest-dependent communities in the Global South against development and infrastructural projects that threaten their livelihoods and survival in the moment—to instead focus on how their livelihoods sustain urban environments, and discuss what we can learn more broadly about the intersections between work, mobilizations and inequality from this case.


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Diane Rodet (8 février 2024). Séminaire “Sens Ecologique(s)” – 14 février – Manisha Anantharaman – Recycling Class. Sociologie économique. Consulté le 18 avril 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/vs7p


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