Urban pollution : cultural meanings, social practices /: cultural meanings, social practices. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• 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.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.