title: Urban political ecologies of informal recyclers׳ health in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
abstract: Buenos Aires׳ informal recyclers (cartoneros) confront multiple health hazards in their work. Based in a survey with (n=397) informal recyclers, this study establishes that these workers experience uneven health landscapes as evidenced through their health outcomes, the social determinants of their health, and their living and working environments. I argue that the analytical framework of urban political ecology can provide insights to the ways that the urban environments where cartoneros live and work are socially-constructed phenomena, drawing on concepts of crisis, metabolism, and multi-scalar analyses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Geography, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Rd. East, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1. Electronic address: kate.parizeau@uoguelph.ca.
authors.forename: Kate
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Parizeau
mesh_terms: D001118:Argentina; D006256:Hazardous Waste / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000191:economics; D006304:Health Status; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects*; D059027:Recycling / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods; D064890:Social Determinants of Health
chemical_list: D006256:Hazardous Waste
keywords: Argentina; Buenos Aires; Health; Informal recycling; Urban political ecology