Main entry:

Newell, Stephanie, 1968- author.

Title & Author:

Histories of dirt : media and urban life in colonial and postcolonial Lagos / Stephanie Newell.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
©2020

Description:

xix, 249 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Histories of dirt -- European insanitary nuisances -- Malaria: lines in the dirt -- African newspapers, the 'great unofficial public', and plague in Colonial Lagos -- Screening dirt: public health movies in Colonial Nigeria and rural spectatorship in the 1930s and 1940s -- Methods, unsound methods, no methods at all? -- Popular perceptions of 'dirty' in multicultural Lagos -- Remembering waste -- City sexualities: negotiating homophobia -- Mediated publics, uncontrollable audiences.

Summary:

"HISTORIES OF DIRT IN WEST AFRICA is a historical and cultural approach to the study of dirt in relation to public health, governance, and daily life in urban West Africa. While in the Anglophone world dirt is evoked to denote a problem, Stephanie Newell broadens dirt as an interpretive category to move beyond the fixation on purity and cleanliness to encompass understandings of, and interactions with, dirt as a dimension of urbanization. Newell thus situates her study of dirt between the failings of colonial interpretations of dirt and the multifaceted connotations of dirt in the West African context. Through archival work, she asserts that dirt structured colonial understandings of public health, which then gradually enabled a discourse through which hygiene policies under the British Annexation of Lagos were set--the same logic that enabled racial segregation in the name of public health. Newell reads the deep history of "sanitary salvation," or the set of related public health initiatives meant to enable clean and healthy colonial subjects, against present-day discussions concerning health, well-being, and daily life in West African cities.

ISBN:

9781478005391 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1478005394
9781478006435 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1478006439
(ebook)
9781478007067

Subject:

Public health Nigeria Lagos.
Urban health Nigeria Lagos.
Sanitation Nigeria Lagos.
Environmental health Nigeria Lagos.
Public health.
Urban health.
Sanitation.
Environmental health.
Public Health
Urban Health
Environmental Health
Santé publique Nigeria Lagos.
Santé urbaine Nigeria Lagos.
Salubrité publique Nigeria Lagos.
Santé publique.
Santé urbaine.
Salubrité publique.
Hygiène du milieu.
public health.
Moral
Öffentliches Gesundheitswesen
Schmutz
Urbanität
Nigeria
Nigeria Lagos.
Lagos

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308237
Call No.: BIB 253671
Status: Available