Trashing Solidarity: The Production of Power and the Challenges to Organizing Informal Reclaimers
Trashing Solidarity: The Production of Power and the Challenges to Organizing Informal Reclaimers
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破坏团结：电力的生产和组织非正式回收者的挑战
DOI：
10.1017/s0147547919000036
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
0.5
通讯作者：
Melanie Samson
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作者：
Melanie Samson
摘要本文介绍了南非索韦托玛丽路易斯垃圾填埋场的回收者如何在国籍的基础上组织起来对抗对方，而不是团结起来对抗2008年全球经济危机的影响。通过在一个特定的垃圾场斗争的叙述，本文有助于非正式工人组织的辩论，通过理论化的身份，权力关系，空间和机构的生产的重要性，在理解非正式工人如何以及为什么创造和维持权力负载的分歧。文章认为，组织努力，寻求克服非正式工人之间的分歧，不能简单地表现出他们团结在抽象的原则，但必须积极地改变这些工人通过他们创造和结晶分裂的身份和权力关系锻造的地方和机构。
Abstract This article presents a nuanced social history of how reclaimers at the Marie Louise landfill in Soweto, South Africa, organized against each other on the basis of nationality instead of uniting to combat the effects of the 2008 global economic crisis. Through this narrative of struggles at one particular dump, the article contributes to debates on informal worker organizing by theorizing the importance of the production of identities, power relations, space, and institutions in understanding how and why informal workers create and maintain power-laden divisions between themselves. The article argues that organizing efforts that seek to overcome divisions between informal workers cannot simply exhort them to unite based on abstract principles, but must actively transform the places and institutions forged by these workers through which they create and crystallize divisive identities and power relations.