Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal.

• Author: Cruz, Joshua Kohler Da

Fredericks, Rosalind. Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018.

Rosalind Fredericks's Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal, won the Association of Global South Studies' Toyin Falola Book Award in 2019. This work explores the garbage collection struggles over government, labor value, the dignity of the working poor, and the neoliberal era of the politics of Dakar, Senegal. Fredericks's approach is unique in the field as the book bridges a cultural politics of labor with a materialist understanding of infrastructure through an ethnography of everyday infrastructures of disposals. Throughout this work, Fredericks gets challenged by Senegal's complex political landscape; however, she overcomes these obstacles by revealing the complex mix of politics that was unleashed by the neoliberal reforms that have taken place in the country. By reconfiguring neoliberalism, Fredericks peels back layers of obfuscation to urban reform and social differences caused by degraded labor. Fredericks also dissects the Set/Setal movement as a massive milestone on the neoliberal course of the country where the city mayor coopted young men and women to create a public cleaning force, which is still around today.

In chapter 1, "Governing Disposability," Fredericks details ongoing neoliberal traditions and policies regarding the garbage infrastructure of...