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

by Françoise Vergès

An antiracist theory of cleaning.

Every year, capitalism produces tons of goods that go right to waste. Mining, deforestation, social inequalities, racism, extractivism, and hyper-consumption add to this fantastic amount of waste. How is their disappearance and invisibility organized? Who cleans the world? Upon whose bodies rests bourgeois and white cleanliness?

Making the World Clean looks at the masses who daily clean...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1913380394
• ISBN13: 9781913380397
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.