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Acknowledgments -- Figure credits --

1. Introduction / Randika Jayasinghe -- 1.1 Initial thoughts -- 1.2 Waste management in the world -- 1.2.1 Waste as a social dilemma -- 1.2.2 Waste, shifting the responsibility -- 1.2.3 Waste, a resource out of place -- 1.2.4 Waste, through a "post-development" framework -- 1.2.5 Environmentally and...

2. Towards a just politics of waste management / Usman Mushtaq -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Environmental and social injustice -- 2.2.1 Class and work -- 2.2.2 Women and their families -- 2.2.3 Indigenous peoples, NIMBYism, and sovereignty -- 2.3 What exactly is social justice? -- 2.4 Power and resist...

3. Expertise, indigenous people, and the site 41 landfill / Usman Mushtaq -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Akwesasne and General Motors -- 3.3 Site 41 -- 3.4 A history of site 41 -- 3.5 Seeing site 41 through a social justice lens -- 3.5.1 Discourse analysis -- 3.5.2 Analyzing a discursive formation -- 3....

4. Waste management in the global north / Randika Jayasinghe -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Waste management in the global north -- 4.3 Environmental inequality: siting of waste facilities -- 4.3.1 Waste dumps in the U.S. -- 4.3.2 Waste management in regional and remote areas of Australia -- 4.4 Hazardo...

5. Waste management in the global south: a Sri Lankan case study / Randika Jayasinghe -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Waste management in the global south -- 5.3 Sri Lanka: the pearl of the Indian Ocean -- 5.4 Waste management through a social and environmental justice lens -- 5.5 Solid waste governance:...

6. Assessing the feasibility of waste for life in the western province of Sri Lanka / Toni Alyce Smythe -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Socio-economic feasibility -- 6.2.1 Stakeholder analysis -- 6.2.2 Health and safety risk assessment -- 6.2.3 Identification and critical assessment of some potential sou...