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Waqas H. Butt. Life Beyond Waste. Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan. [South Asia in Motion.] Stanford University Press, Stanford (CA) 2023. xx, 225 pp. Ill. Maps. $90.00. (Paper. E-book: $28.00.)

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Waqas H. Butt. Life Beyond Waste. Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan. [South Asia in Motion.] Stanford University Press, Stanford (CA) 2023. xx, 225 pp. Ill. Maps. $90.00. (Paper. E-book: $28.00.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2025

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International Review of Social History , Volume 70 , Issue 3 , December 2025 , pp. 536 - 538
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1 See, for example, Kathleen Millar, Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio’s Garbage Dump (Durham, NC, 2018); Joel Lee, “Odor and Order: How Caste is Inscribed in Space and Sensoria”, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 37:3 (2017), pp. 470–490.