Dirt

New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Dirt - and our rituals to eradicate it - is as much a part of our everyday lives as eating, breathing and sleeping. Yet this very fact means that we seldom stop to question what we mean by dirt. What do our attitudes to dirt and cleanliness tell us about ourselves and the societies we live in? Exploring a wide variety of settings - domestic, urban, suburban and rural - the contributors expose how our ideas about dirt are intimately bound up with issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and the body. The result is a a rich and challenging work that extends our understanding of historical and contemporary cultural manifestations of dirt and cleanliness.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-12-05
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt406 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781780764177

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Ben Campkin is Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory and Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. He is the author of London's Urban Landscape (I.B.Tauris, forthcoming). Rosie Cox is Senior Lecturer in Geography and Gender Studies in the Department of Geography, Environment & Development, Birkbeck, London University. She is the author of Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food and The Servant Problem (I.B.Tauris, 2006)

ContentsIntroduction: materialities and metaphors of dirt and cleanliness Ben Campkin and Rosie CoxSection 1 Home: Domestic Dirt and Cleaning1 Linguistic leakiness or really dirty? Dirt in social theory Carol Wolkowitz2 Domestic workers and pollution in Brazil Livia Barbosa3 The visible and the invisible Lydia Martens4 Bring home the dead: purity & filth in contemporary funeral homes Kyro SelketSection 2 City & Suburb: Urban Dirt and Cleansing 5 Degradation and regeneration: theories of dirt and the contemporary city Ben Campkin 6 From the dirty city to the spoiled suburb Paul Watt7 Dangers lurking everywhere: the sex offender as pollution Pamela K. Gilbert8 Hygiene aesthetics on London’s gay scene: the stigma of AIDS Johan Andersson9 Spiritual cleansing: priests & prostitutes in early Victorian London Dominic Janes10 Mapping sewer spaces in mid-Victorian London Paul Dobraszczyk11 The cinematic sewer David L. PikeSection 3 Country: Constructing Rural DirtIntroduction Rosie Cox12 Dirt & development: alternative , modernities in Thailand Alyson Brody13 Dirty Foods, Healthy Communities ? Gareth Enticott14 Dirty vegetables connecting consumers to the growing of their food Lewis Holloway, Laura Venn, Rosie Cox, Moya Kneafsey, Elizabeth Dowler, Herlena Tuomainen15 Dirty cows: perceptions of BSE/vCJD Bruce A. Scholten ContributorsNotesReferencesIndex