Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism

by Françoise Vergès

An antiracist theory of cleaning.

In Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism, Fran oise Verg s 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1913380394
• ISBN13: 9781913380397
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"