Dirt : new geographies of cleanliness and contamination /: new geographies of cleanliness and contamination. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ben Campkin and Rosie Cox.
• Other Names: Campkin, Ben; Cox, Rosie
• Contents: Contents Introduction: materialities and metaphors of dirt and cleanliness Ben Campkin and Rosie Cox Section 1 Home: Domestic Dirt and Cleaning 1 Linguistic leakiness or really dirty? Dirt in social theory Carol Wolkowitz 2 Domestic workers and pollution in Brazil Livia Barbosa 3 The visible and the invisible Lydia Martens 4 Bring home the dead: purity & filth in contemporary funeral homes Kyro Selket Section 2 City & Suburb: Urban Dirt and Cleansing 5 Degradation and regeneration: theories of dirt and the contemporary city Ben Campkin 6 From the dirty city to the spoiled suburb Paul Watt 7 Dangers lurking everywhere: the sex offender as pollution Pamela K. Gilbert 8 Hygiene aesthetics on London's gay scene: the stigma of AIDS Johan Andersson 9 Spiritual cleansing: priests & prostitutes in early Victorian London Dominic Janes10 Mapping sewer spaces in mid-Victorian London Paul Dobraszczyk11 The cinematic sewer David L. PikeSection 3 Country: Constructing Rural DirtIntroduction Rosie Cox12 Dirt & development: alternative, modernities in Thailand Alyson Brody13 Dirty Foods, Healthy Communities ? Gareth Enticott14 Dirty vegetables connecting consumers to the growing of their food Lewis Holloway, Laura Venn, Rosie Cox, Moya Kneafsey, Elizabeth Dowler, Herlena Tuomainen15 Dirty cows: perceptions of BSE/vCJD Bruce A. Scholten Contributors Notes References Index.
• Publisher Details: London : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 363.72; Sanitation -- Social aspects; Sanitation -- Psychological aspects; Health behavior; Health attitudes
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857738820; 0857738828
• Related ISBNs: 9781780764177
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• 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.