Dirt
Subtitle: new geographies of cleanliness and contamination
By: edited by Ben Campkin and Rosie Cox.
Contributors: Campkin, Ben.; Cox, Rosie.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781845116729
Subjects: Purity (Philosophy); Purity, Ritual.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: Materialities and Metaphors of Dirt and Cleanliness / Ben Campkin and Rosie Cox; value: Home: Domestic Dirt and Cleaning / Rosie Cox; value: Linguistic Leakiness or Really Dirty? Dirt in Social Theory / Carol Wolkowitz; value: Domestic Workers and Pollution in Brazil / Livia Barbosa; value: The Visible and the Invisible: (De)regulation in Contemporary Cleaning Practices / Lydia Martens; value: Bring Home the Dead: Purity and Filth in Contemporary Funeral Homes / Kyro Selket; value: City and Suburb: Urban Dirt and Cleansing / Ben Campkin; value: From the Dirty City to the Spoiled Suburb / Paul Watt; value: Dangers Lurking Everywhere: The Sex Offender as Pollution / Pamela K. Gilbert; value: Hygiene Aesthetics on London's Gay Scene: The Stigma of AIDS / Johan Andersson; value: Spiritual Cleansing: Priests and Prostitutes in Early Victorian London / Dominic Janes; value: Mapping Sewer Spaces in mid-Victorian London / Paul Dobraszczyk; value: The Cinematic Sewer / David L. Pike; value: Country: Constructing Rural Dirt / Rosie Cox; value: Dirt and Development: Alternative Modernities in Thailand / Alyson Brody; value: Dirty Foods, Healthy Communities? / Gareth Enticott; value: Dirty Vegetables: Connecting Consumers to the Growing of their Food / Lewis Holloway, Laura Venn, Rosie Cox, Moya Kneafsey, Elizabeth Dowler, Helena Tuomainen; value: Dirty Cows: Perceptions of BSE/vCJD / Bruce A. Scholten.