The Afterlives of “Waste”: Notes from India for a Minor History of Capitalist Surplus

By Vinay Gidwani, Rajyashree N. Reddy. 2011

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Urban Studies, Philosophy

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• Spatial justice and the land politics of renewables: Dispossessing vulnerable communities through solar energy mega-projects (2016, neutral): “Further, drawing on Locke's (1988 [1681]) moral-political theory, Gidwani and Reddy (2011) explore the appropriation of ‘wastelands’ – labelled by the state as unoccupied or unused, uncultivated or unproductive, idle land – for state-led development, and argue that the labour that individuals had…”
• ‘Dead people don’t claim’: A psychopolitical autopsy of UK austerity suicides (2018, background): “…produces non-normatively ‘productive’ bodies and minds as ‘unfit’ (if not ‘fit to work’), parasitic disposable life constituting a ‘surplus humanity that is superfluous to a regime of capitalist value’ (Gidwani and Reddy, 2011:1653), a set of people seen to have no stake in neoliberal futurity.”
• The economy that runs on waste: accumulation in the circular city (2019, background): “…capitalism, waste has become a ‘negativity’ (Gille, 2010) of production and consumption.1 In this context, it is posited as ‘the political other of value’ (Gidwani & Reddy, 2011, p. 1925), the ‘degree zero of value’ (Frow, 2003, p. 25), or anti-value in the circulation of capital (Harvey, 2018).”
• The Morphology of Marronage (2020, background): “This contradiction might also be read, as Gidwani and Reddy (2011) suggested, as the tension between a Lockean understanding of rational and irrational use—the former being what grounds civil society and the latter, marronage.”
• Life for Sale? The Politics of Lively Commodities (2013, background): “Property and privatization are central to this ‘ordering’ (Gidwani and Reddy, 2011), but we do not have space to discuss them explicitly here.”