This research focuses on the everyday livelihood experiences and daily navigations of women doing waste picking work in Ahmedabad, India in the context of on-going changes to the governance of waste in the country. This photo was taken early one morning during fieldwork when I accompanied a participant on her daily waste picking route (also collecting waste myself) after staying overnight at her home in the Rampir no Tekro slum in the city. We left her home at 4am and were almost done her morning collection by sunrise, when I took this photo of her proudly walking down a residential street.
