Disposable Cities: Garbage, Governance and Sustainable Development in Urban AfricaBased on in-depth fieldwork in three cities, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar and Lusaka, this book provides a critical analysis of the United Nations Sustainable Cities Program in Africa (SCP). Focusing on the SCP's policies for solid waste management, which was identified as the top priority problem by the SCP, the book examines the success of these pilot schemes and the SCP's record in building new relationships between people and government. It argues that the SCP has operated in a political vacuum, without recognition of the long and problematic histories and cultural politics of urban environmental governance in Eastern and Southern Africa. This book brings these cultural and political histories to the fore in its examination of the contemporary dynamics. In doing so, it not only provides an insightful analysis of the policies and outcomes for the SCP, but also puts forward a historically grounded critique of neoliberalism, good governance and sustainable development discourses. |
Contents
Political Ecology and Urban Africa | |
The United Nations and African Urban Development | |
The Exclusive City | |
Neoliberalism in Dar es Salaam | |
Good Governance in Dar es Salaam | |
Conclusion | |
Neoliberalism in Zanzibar | |
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African cities Afro-Shirazi Party agencies agenda areas cent central government chapter Chiluba city consultation colonial community-based compounds context councilors countries cultural difference Danida Dar es Salaam decades decentralization democratic donors dump eastern and southern economic elections elite environment environmental planning EPM framework EPM process exclusionary democracies funding garbage geography German Ghassany global groups Hanna Nassif IFIs implementation Ireland Aid Kamanga Kaunda Keenja Kinondoni Kironde Kitilla land Lerise Lusaka mainland Majani majority Mkele Muhajir neighborhoods neoliberal Ng'ambo Ng'ombe organizations participation participatory party Pemba peri-urban pilot policies political ecology politics of cultural poor population postcolonial problems RDCs regime regional residents rhetoric social solid waste collection solid waste management southern Africa squatter stakeholders Stone Town structural adjustment Sub-Saharan Sustainable Cities Program sustainable development Tanganyika Tanzania Temeke UNIP United Nations urban development urban planning wards West District World Bank Zambia Zanzibar city