Enacting a Waste Hierarchy: Practices of Reuse, Repair and Recycling Amongst Jua Kali, Kenya

制定废物等级制度：肯尼亚 Jua Kali 的再利用、修复和回收实践

• 批准号: 1901088
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1901088
• 关键词: Enacting; Waste; Hierarchy; Practices; Reuse

A growth in solid post-consumer waste in cities in the Global South as a result of expanding Middle Class consumption has been seen as a developing problem for sustainability. To reduce waste the hierarchy of interventions is usually reduce, reuse, recycle. There is little appetite to tell the newly emerging global middle classes to reduce their consumption. Most literature on waste in the Global South has focused upon recyclers - 'waste pickers' - and their organisation and conditions.This project instead looks at 'reuse' and repurposing. It takes as its case study the jua kali informal sector workers in Kenya. It chooses Kenya since the make and mend jua kali sector is both large and has at times received official and public recognition for its ingenuity in the face of challenges. It has even been celebrated as showing especially Kenyan qualities. This has been argued by politicians to be under threat by cheap Chinese goods, whose 'low quality' prevents reuse but whose low price competes with second hand goods refitted in the informal sector. The thesis will explore two categories of goods repurposing with the sector -household cooking appliance production and repairs. The study will beconduct ethnographically in Ngong Road Nairobi and will trace thedisposal of goods, their recovery and reworking and their purchase and reuse.

由于中产阶级消费的扩大，南半球城市中固体消费后废物的增加被视为可持续发展的一个日益严重的问题。为了减少浪费，干预措施的层次通常是减少、再利用、再循环。人们没有兴趣告诉新兴的全球中产阶级减少消费。大多数关于南半球废物的文献都集中在回收商（“废物拾取者”）及其组织和条件上。该项目着眼于“再利用”和重新利用。它以肯尼亚的 jua kali 非正规部门工人为案例研究。它选择肯尼亚是因为制造和维修 jua kali 行业规模庞大，并且有时因其在面临挑战时的独创性而获得官方和公众的认可。它甚至被誉为展现了肯尼亚的独特品质。政界人士认为，这受到廉价中国商品的威胁，这些商品的“低质量”阻碍了重复使用，但其低廉的价格与非正规部门改装的二手商品竞争。本论文将探讨该行业的两类商品再利用——家用烹饪用具的生产和维修。该研究将在内罗毕恩贡路以人种学的方式进行，并将追踪货物的处置、回收和再加工以及购买和再利用。