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来源

ENVIRONMENT AND URBANIZATION,Vol.30,Issue1,P.249-264

语言

英文

关键字

city public spaces; health; Pune; risks; safety; sanitation; waste picker women; INDIA; INFRASTRUCTURE

作者单位

[Joshi, Nupur] Univ Arizona, Sch Geog & Dev, ENR2 Bldg,South 4th Floor,POB 210137, Tucson, AZ 85709 USA. Joshi, N (reprint author), Univ Arizona, Sch Geog & Dev, ENR2 Bldg,South 4th Floor,POB 210137, Tucson, AZ 85709 USA. E-Mail: nupur.joshi@ma2014.iitgn.ac.in

摘要

While considerable existing literature has focused on the lack of sanitation services in informal settlements, this paper argues for the need for well-maintained sanitation services in city public spaces. Specifically, the paper describes the impact of a lack of sanitation facilities in public spaces and its linkages to waste picker women's sense of safety and security. Drawing on the experiences of waste picker women residing in an informal settlement in Pune, it focuses on women's everyday improvisations and negotiations to cope with the unavailability or inaccessibility of sanitation facilities while they traverse the city, picking and segregating waste, and the impact on their income, health and psychological well-being. The findings show that the policy discourse on sanitation needs to be expanded beyond a focus on informal settlements to include a public sanitation component.