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An antiracist theory of cleaning. In Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism , Françoise Vergès examines the racial and gendered politics of wasting lands, bodies, and resources and the organized deprivation of clean water, shelter, and access to health services—in other words, the structural denial, along racial lines, of vital needs. Through 38 short sections, she looks at the social relations that have made cleaning into drudgery and into a racialized, gendered, poorly paid job that is nevertheless necessary for any society to function. She concludes with the proposition of a feminist, decolonial, antiracist, anti-patriarchal, and anti-capitalist politics of cleaning. Or, simply put, of “decolonial cleaning.” To Vergès, the structural denial of the elemental needs of women of color (sanitary pads, access to water, and privacy for basic washing), and why these needs are...

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Author

Francoise Verges

Publisher

Goldsmith's Press

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9781913380380

Category

nonfiction