Manisha Anantharaman
@ManishaAnanthar
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Asst Prof @SciencesPo; Associate Fellow @Chathamhouse. Political ecologist of waste, consumption, circular economy, cities. Recycling Class @MITPress '24
Paris, France
Joined August 2012
🔜 On Thursday 16 October we welcome @ManishaAnanthar (@sciencespo) to the Human Geography Seminar Series. If you wish to attend the seminar, please email geog.research@lse.ac.uk @azeiderman 🔴 https://t.co/YSbqhTkwqx
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Going to the @theAAG conference? Please come to the book discussion of “Recycling Class”! Fabulous scholars will comment on waste, caste, labor & justice, with a discussion. Tues 3/25/2025 12:50 PM415B, Level 4, Huntington Place) #AAG #AAG2025 🙏@jostehlin for organizing!
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Please see our Special Issue call for papers, co-edited with fantastic urban studies colleagues! https://t.co/0qE4xPny1p
nature.com
This collection invites research on environmental justice challenges in cities and urban areas and their governance.
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Book review! Recycling class: The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability by Manisha Anantharaman. A 'rich and insightful book' which challenges the systems of oppression entangled with sustainability transitions. Reviewed by @cat_acheson
https://t.co/97mPEc2uEg
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"Performative environmentalists... employ defensive distinctions to distance themselves from green practices of the poor, to legitimize environmental actions within their own class & caste groups. In doing so, they exclude the urban poor from their conceptions of green community"
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Since my dear friend @ManishaAnanthar gave me an author-signed physical copy of her book, I will donate the copy I got to @FlacsoMx ‘s library 🥰 and keep the one she gifted me 😊
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Our fall magazine highlights Rausser College’s #environmentaljustice researchers who are tackling the mounting inequities created or compounded by climate change, economic injustice, and the enduring legacies of racism. Read at: https://t.co/eEmOqCAsrN
#equity #climate
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Super happy to see that folks are reading this book! Available #OpenAccess thanks to @mitpress D2O program here:
direct.mit.edu
An ethnographic and community-engaged study of the class, caste, and gender politics of environmental mobilizations around Bengaluru, India's discards.In R
Unmotivated today, so I shook it off by making it a reading day with Recycling Class by @ManishaAnanthar. 🤯🤩 Fantastic work! Making me think about all sorts of things urban, environmental and social justice, and (de)colonial thinking.
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Unmotivated today, so I shook it off by making it a reading day with Recycling Class by @ManishaAnanthar. 🤯🤩 Fantastic work! Making me think about all sorts of things urban, environmental and social justice, and (de)colonial thinking.
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A real pleasure to discuss my book with @HansenArve and @K_Bo_Nielsen on this New Books Network podcast. (Though when asked for an elevator pitch about the book on the podcast, I clearly took the stairs... at least it's the more sustainable option?!) 🤷🏻♀️
How can we avoid reproducing unjust distributions of risk and responsibility in urban sustainability efforts? @ManishaAnanthar discusses questions raised in her book, "Recycling Class," with @K_Bo_Nielsen and @HansenArve on @NewBooksNetwork.
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How can we avoid reproducing unjust distributions of risk and responsibility in urban sustainability efforts? @ManishaAnanthar discusses questions raised in her book, "Recycling Class," with @K_Bo_Nielsen and @HansenArve on @NewBooksNetwork.
newbooksnetwork.com
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What are common challenges and lessons learned in identifying, assessing and addressing #EnvironmentalJustice concerns? Register to hear from @josephshapiro @emilymbarritt @ProfJonFairburn @ManishaAnanthar @MathildeViennot @dominiquchan, & more Register🔗 https://t.co/BW6gfLCwxh
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Happy to see this first (?) book review of Recycling Class that came out this January. Thanks to @newmantropologa for a careful reading.
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You're welcome to attend the kick off meeting of the Sciences Po South Asia Asia Program on April 29 & 30: "Facing environmental crisis in South Asia: challenges and responses". Use the link below to see the program and register @CBKsrilanka @DufloEsther
https://t.co/eLF5hxdBFK
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A nice discount code for Recycling Class this Spring conference (aka time to catch a cold) season!
@ManishaAnanthar @JoannaILewis Browse our virtual exhibit and get 30% off when you use the code MITPCONF when ordering through the @mitpbookstore: https://t.co/3cTgAmbz3D
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"Recycling Class" by @ManishaAnanthar traces garbage politics in Bengaluru for over a decade, arguing that middle-class "communal sustainability" efforts create new avenues for waste picker organizations to make claims for infrastructural inclusion:
mitpress.mit.edu
In Recycling Class, Manisha Anantharaman examines the ideas, flows, and relationships around unmanaged discards in Bengaluru, India, itself a massive environ...
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