Title & Author:

Dirt : new geographies of cleanliness and contamination / edited by Ben Campkin and Rosie Cox.

Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2012.

Description:

262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Originally published: 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : materialities and metaphors of dirt and cleanliness / Ben Campkin and Rosie Cox -- Linguistic leakiness or really dirty? : dirt in social theory / Carol Wolkowitz -- Domestic workers and pollution in Brazil / Lívia Barbosa -- 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 -- 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 -- Cinematic sewer / David L. Pike -- 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, Laura Venn, Rosie Cox, Moya Kneafsey, Elizabeth Dowler, Helena Tuomainen -- Dirty cows : perceptions of BSE/vCJD / Bruce A. Scholten.

ISBN:

9781780764177 (pbk.)
1780764170 (pbk.)

Subject:

Sanitation Social aspects.
Sanitation Psychological aspects.
Health behavior.
Health attitudes.
Health Behavior
Attitude to Health
Salubrité publique Aspect social.
Salubrité publique Aspect psychologique.
Habitudes sanitaires.
Attitudes à l'égard de la santé.

Added entries:

Campkin, Ben.
Cox, Rosie.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287834
Call No.: BIB 229237
Status: Available