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abf-651	Renfrew, Daniel	Rubbish Belongs to the Poor: Hygienic Enclosure and the Waste Commons (2022): By Patrick O’Hare	2023	6	.pdf	application/pdf	1939	70	39	This lucid and engaging, at times amusing, ethnography of waste-pickers in Montevideo, Uruguay, challenges readers to think critically about the role of waste in contemporary society, the nature of informality within the local and global economies of advanced capitalism, and perhaps most poignantly, whether people should have a “right” to urban waste as a resource and as a commons. Urban waste, the symbolically stigmatized material substance which normative assumptions suggest no one wants, is instead subject to at times intensely disputed political claims between the urban clasificadores, the state, and private corporations.	cache/abf-651.pdf	txt/abf-651.txt