Urban pollution : cultural meanings, social practices

Dürr, Eveline, (editor.). Jaffe, Rivke, (editor.).

Summary: Re-examining Mary Douglas' work on pollution and concepts of purity, this volume explores modern expressions of these themes in urban areas, examining the intersections of material and cultural pollution. It presents ethnographic case studies from a range of cities affected by globalization processes such as neoliberal urban policies, privatization of urban space, continued migration and spatialized ethnic tension. What has changed since the appearance of Purity and Danger? How have anthropological views on pollution changed accordingly? This volume focuses on cultural meanings and values that.

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ISBN: 1845456920
ISBN: 9781845456924
ISBN: 1782385096
ISBN: 9781782385097
ISBN: 1845458486
ISBN: 9781845458485
Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 209 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. Introduction: cultural and material forms of urban pollution / Rivke Jaffe and Eveline Dürr -- 2. "Tidy Kiwis/dirty Asians": cultural pollution and migration in Auckland, New Zealand / Eveline Dürr -- 3. Private cleanliness, public mess: purity, pollution and space in Kottar, South India / Damaris Lüthi -- 4. The jungle and the city: perceptions of the urban among Indo-Fijians in Suva, Fiji / Susanna Trnka -- 5. Gendered fears of pollution: traversing public space in neoliberal Cairo / Anouk de Koning -- 6. The choice between clean and dirty: discourses of aesthetics, morality and progress in post-revolutionary Asmara, Eritrea / Magnus Treiber -- 7. Using pollution to frame collective action: urban grassroots mobilisations in Budapest / Szabina Kerényi -- 8. Cleanness, order and security: the re-emergence of restrictive definitions of urbanity in Europe / Johanna Rolshoven -- 9. Social equity and social housing densification in Glen Innes, New Zealand: a political ecology approach / Kathryn Scott, Angela Shaw and Christina Bava -- 10. Afterword: impure thought on messy cities / Aidan Davison.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.