Dirt : new geographies of cleanliness and contamination /
Dirt - and our rituals to eradicate it - are as much a part of our everyday lives as eating, breathing and sleeping. Yet this very fact means that we seldom question what we mean by dirt. What do our attitudes to dirt and cleanliness tell us about ourselves and the societies we live in? This innovat...
| Други автори: | Campkin, Ben., Cox, Rosie. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris,
2007.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=253081 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Dirt. |
Съдържание:
- 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 [and others]
- Dirty cows: perceptions of BSE/vCJD / Bruce A. Scholten.