Urban pollution : cultural meanings, social practices /: cultural meanings, social practices. (2010)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Urban pollution : cultural meanings, social practices /: cultural meanings, social practices. (2010)
- Main Title:
- Urban pollution : cultural meanings, social practices
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Eveline Dürr and Rivke Jaffe.
- Other Names:
- Dürr, Eveline
Jaffe, Rivke - Contents:
- Urban Pollution; Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction: Cultural and Material Forms of Urban Pollution; Chapter 2: 'Tidy Kiwis/Dirty Asians': Cultural Pollution and Migration in Auckland, New Zealand; Chapter 3: Private Cleanliness, Public Mess: Purity, Pollution and Space in Kottar, South India; Chapter 4: The Jungle and the City: Perceptions of the Urban among Indo-Fijians in Suva, Fiji; Chapter 5: Gendered Fears of Pollution: Traversing Public Space in Neoliberal Cairo. Chapter 6: The Choice between Clean and Dirty: Discourses of Aesthetics, Morality and Progress in Post-Revolutionary Asmara, EritreaChapter 7: Using Pollution to Frame Collective Action: Urban Grassroots Mobilisations in Budapest; Chapter 8: Cleanness, Order and Security: The Re-emergence of Restrictive Definitions of Urbanity in Europe; Chapter 9: Social Equity and Social Housing Densification in Glen Innes, New Zealand: A Political Ecology Approach; Chapter 10: Afterword: Impure Thoughts on Messy Cities; Notes on Contributors; Index.
- Publisher Details:
- New York : Berghahn Books
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (vi, 209 pages), illustrations
- Subjects:
- 363.7309173/2
Urban anthropology
Urban pollution
Human ecology
Environmental degradation
Taboo
Purity, Ritual
Primitive societies
Environmental degradation
Human ecology
Primitive societies
Purity, Ritual
Taboo
Urban anthropology
Urban pollution
Social Science
Environmental Studies
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Pollution Control
NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection
Environmental degradation
Human ecology
Primitive societies
Purity, Ritual
Taboo
Urban anthropology
Urban pollution
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781845458485
1845458486
9781782385097
1782385096 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781845456924
1845456920 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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