Making the World Clean (Paperback)

Francoise Verges

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Language: English

Published by Goldsmith's Press, 2024

1913380394 / 9781913380397

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Paperback. An antiracist theory of cleaning.An antiracist theory of cleaning.Every year, capitalism produces tons of goods that go right to waste. Mining, deforestation, social inequalities, racism, extractivism, and hyper-consumption add to this fantastic amount of waste. How is their disappearance and invisibility organized? Who cleans the world? Upon whose bodies rests bourgeois and white cleanliness?Making the World Clean looks at the masses who daily clean the world to make it livable and comfortable for a few. That comfort rests on the exhaustion of non-white bodies and their exposition to dangerous chemical and premature death. Who cleans the world is thus a political question, with an anti-patriarchal, antiracist, and anti-capitalist frame. To explore this, Francoise Verges looks at the notion of cleanliness of white bodies and the cleanliness of cities in which they live and of the planet they wish to inhabit, stressing the naturalization and invisibilization of cheap labor. Racial capitalism produces waste, waste is the measure of its potency, and greening waste hides the fact that colonizing the planet and thus transforming life into waste is essential. Against this politics of wasted lives and wasted lands, Verges opposes the politics of antiracist and anti-capitalist cleaning, looking at works and actions of activists throughout the world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Title
Making the World Clean (Paperback)
Author
Francoise Verges
Publisher
Goldsmith's Press
Publication year
2024
Condition
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Binding
Paperback
Language
English
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1913380394
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