Waste WorksIn Waste Works, Brenda Chalfin examines Ghanas planned city of Tema, theorizing about the formative role of waste infrastructure in urban politics and public life. Chalfin argues that at Temas midcentury founding, a prime objective of governing authorities was to cultivate self contained citizens by means of tightly orchestrated domestic infrastructure and centralized control of bodily excrement to both develop and depoliticize the new nation.