Selected Publications

Wittmer, J. (2022). Dirty work in the clean city: An embodied urban political ecology of women informal recyclers’ work in the ‘clean city’. Environment & Planning E: Nature & Space, Published online May 17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221102374

Wittmer, J. (2022). Smart city technologies post serious threats to women waste workers in India. The Conversation, May 19. Access here.

Wittmer, J. (2021). “We live and we do this work:” Women waste pickers’ experiences of wellbeing in Ahmedabad, India. World Development, Vol 140: 105253. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105253

Wittmer, J. & Parizeau, K. (2018). Informal recyclers’ health inequities in Vancouver, BC. New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, 28(2): 321-343. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1048291118777845

Wittmer, J. & Parizeau, K. (2016). Surviving neoliberal urbanism: Informal recyclers’ geographies of survival in Vancouver, BC. Applied Geography, 66: 92-99. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.10.006

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