The Reimagining waste landscapes seminar series launches with a presentation from Dr Jacob Doherty of the University of Edinburgh. Jacob introduces his new book, Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability (University of California Press, 2021) and presents an ethnography of the Ugandan capital city's diverse waste streams and the social worlds that surround them.
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