Flytande kroppar. Saltsjön Katwe och dess arbetare

Abstract

In Salt Lake Katwe in Uganda, workers extract salt by manual labour and sell to local buyers for animal and industrial consumption. This material practice affects their skin by corrosion and dehydration. Interviews with salt workers, stakeholder workshops and discussions on Ministry level were undertaken with the aim to understand innovative practices to improve livelihoods, working conditions and economic revenue without deserting the manual labour and local scale organization of work. In this paper, feminist materialist theories and geographies of scale are applied in an effort to understand and discuss future opportunities for sustainability. To overcome the dichotomy between development and liquidation, the concept of revelopment is introduced.