Dana Kornberg is Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC-Santa Barbara. She works in cities across India and the United States, using case studies to identify political-economic and symbolic processes that institutionalize racial and caste structures in urban economic and environmental contexts. Her research asks: how are the logics and imperatives of global capitalism refracted through urban environmental and economic infrastructures to institutionalize material inequalities based on race, caste, and class? And how do the people who suffer the consequences collectively resist, undermine, or transcend them through resistance or persistence?

• Introduction: Casteing capitalism in Delhi's garbage economy 1: Making Delhi "clean" 2: Alchemizing garbage 3: Serving dominant-caste residents 4: Compensating for stigma 5: Doing the accounts Conclusion: Pathways of persistence and the architectures of casteing capitalism

Dana Kornberg is Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC-Santa Barbara. She works in cities across India and the United States, using case studies to identify political-economic and symbolic processes that institutionalize racial and caste structures in urban economic and environmental contexts. Her research asks: how are the logics and imperatives of global capitalism refracted through urban environmental and economic infrastructures to institutionalize material inequalities based on race, caste, and class? And how do the people who suffer the consequences collectively resist, undermine, or transcend them through resistance or persistence?

• Introduction: Casteing capitalism in Delhi's garbage economy 1: Making Delhi "clean" 2: Alchemizing garbage 3: Serving dominant-caste residents 4: Compensating for stigma 5: Doing the accounts Conclusion: Pathways of persistence and the architectures of casteing capitalism

Dana Kornberg is Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC-Santa Barbara. She works in cities across India and the United States, using case studies to identify political-economic and symbolic processes that institutionalize racial and caste structures in urban economic and environmental contexts. Her research asks: how are the logics and imperatives of global capitalism refracted through urban environmental and economic infrastructures to institutionalize material inequalities based on race, caste, and class? And how do the people who suffer the consequences collectively resist, undermine, or transcend them through resistance or persistence?

• Introduction: Casteing capitalism in Delhi's garbage economy 1: Making Delhi "clean" 2: Alchemizing garbage 3: Serving dominant-caste residents 4: Compensating for stigma 5: Doing the accounts Conclusion: Pathways of persistence and the architectures of casteing capitalism