Tag: Marine Life
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Waste’s Translations
“Waste’s translations: Estuaries, marine life, and the chemistry of Mumbai’s dumping grounds.” American Ethnologist 48, no. 4 (2021): 337-356. Abstract Mumbai’s dumping grounds, located on the city’s estuarine edge, are sites where garbage and marsh are turned into salable land. This process of translating waste into land depends on keeping matter, beings, and landscapes separate and…