“I salute them for their hardwork and contribution”: inclusive urbanism and organizing women recyclers in Ahmedabad, India
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper focuses on the politics of inclusion produced in the roll-out of recent Solid Waste Management (SWM) initiatives seeking to formalize informal recycling labor in India. I contest the notion that formalization is necessarily the antidote to the precarities of informal work by taking seriously the experiences of women recyclers and organizers in responding to exclusions produced in the city of Ahmedabad's increasingly privatized solid waste landscape since the early 2000s. Drawing upon mixed qualitative methods and interviews with women recyclers and organizers, I argue that recent governance initiatives discursively aiming to “integrate” informal recyclers in SWM can paradoxically result in the material exclusion of most workers from opportunities. This paper contributes an articulation of how livelihood opportunities, organizing strategies, and citizenship experiences are always shifting and contingent in relation to local groundings of capitalist and colonial power geometries and dynamics of gendered and casted social differentiation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".