عنوان

Dirt :

(Number (ISBN

1845116720 (hardback)

(Number (ISBN

9781845116729 (hardback)

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Title Proper

Dirt :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

new geographies of cleanliness and contamination /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Ben Campkin and Rosie Cox

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

I.B. Tauris,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2007

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

ix, 262 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-256) and index

Text of Note

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

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Hygiene-- History

Hygiene-- Social aspects

Purity (Philosophy)

Purity, Ritual

Sanitation-- History

Sanitation-- Social aspects

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Edition

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Campkin, Ben

Cox, Rosie

Date of Transaction

20080708080634.0

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[Book]

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