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Dirt : new geographies of cleanliness and contamination
- Title
- Dirt : new geographies of cleanliness and contamination / edited by Ben Campkin and Rosie Cox.
- Publication
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2007.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- ix, 262 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-256) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Materialities and metaphors of dirt and cleanliness / Ben Campkin and Rosie Cox -- Section 1. Home: domestic dirt and cleaning. Introduction / Rosie Cox -- Linguistic leakiness or really dirty? Dirt in social theory / Carol Wolkowitz -- Domestic workers and pollution in Brazil / Livia Barbosa -- The visible and the invisible: (de)regulation in contemporary cleaning practices / Lydia Martens -- Bring home the dead: purity and filth in contemporary funeral homes / Kyro Selket -- section 2. City and suburb: urban dirt and cleansing. Introduction / Ben Campkin -- Degradation and regeneration: theories of dirt and the contemporary city / Ben Campkin -- From the dirty city to the spoiled suburb / Paul Watt -- Dangers lurking everywhere: the sex offender as pollution / Pamela K. Gilbert -- Hygiene aesthetics on London's gay scene: the stigma of AIDS / Johan Andersson -- Spiritual cleansing: priests and prostitutes in early Victorian London / Dominic Janes -- Mapping sewer spaces in mid-Victorian London / Paul Dobraszczyk -- The cinematic sewer / David L. Pike -- Section 3. Country: constructing rural dirt. Introduction / Rosie Cox -- Dirt and development: alternative modernities in Thailand / Alyson Brody -- Dirty foods, healthy communities? / Gareth Enticott -- Dirty vegetables: connecting consumers to the growing of their food / Lewis Holloway ... [et al.] -- Dirty cows: perceptions of BSE/vCJD / Bruce A. Scholten.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-3075
- ISBN
- 9781845116729 (hardback)
- 1845116720 (hardback)
- OCLC
- 213409332
- Title
- Dirt : new geographies of cleanliness and contamination / edited by Ben Campkin and Rosie Cox.
- Imprint
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-256) and index.
- Added Author
- Campkin, Ben.Cox, Rosie.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-3075