Thematic Session 1: Marginalisation & Representation of Sanitation Workers Sanitation Workers Forum 2021 (0)
This session focuses on the changing terminology to describe sanitation work and workers, and persistent forms of stigma and discrimination that many workers face today. The speakers raise important questions about representation of workers in global and national-level advocacy, and the ongoing struggle to be recognised as an essential workforce.
Speakers
1. Dr. Sheeva Y. Dubey (Assistant Professor, School of Media and Journalism at D Y Patil International University, Pune, India).
Talk Title: ‘Deconstructing the anti-manual scavenging discourse in India’
2. Prabha Pokhrel (NGO Worker & Social Anthropologist, Nepal)
Talk Title: ‘Brown Gold Project in Gulariya Municipality: marginality, sanitation and wastewater challenges'
3. Festo Dominic Makoba (Center for Community Initiatives, Tanzania) [Pre-Recorded]
Talk Title: 'Building networks of sanitation workers from the ground up'
4. Asif Aqeel (Centre for Law and Justice, Pakistan).
Talk Title: ‘Dehumanizing sanitation working conditions and the heroic response of the workers'
Chairs: Dr Hemangi Kadlak, Maisie-Rose Byrne & Sally Cawood
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Sanitation Workers Forum 2021 (0). Thematic Session 1: Marginalisation & Representation of Sanitation Workers Sanitation Workers Forum 2021
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