TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bava,Christina
AU  - Davison,Aidan
AU  - Dürr,Eveline
AU  - Jaffe,Rivke
AU  - Kerényi,Szabina
AU  - Koning,Anouk de
AU  - Lüthi,Damaris
AU  - Rolshoven,Johanna
AU  - Scott,Kathryn
AU  - Shaw,Angela
AU  - Treiber,Magnus
AU  - Trnka,Susanna
TI  - Urban Pollution: Cultural Meanings, Social Practices 
T2  - Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
SN  - 9781845456924
AV  - GN395 .U74 2014
U1  - 307.76 23
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Environmental degradation
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Primitive societies
KW  - Purity, Ritual
KW  - Taboo
KW  - Urban anthropology
KW  - Urban pollution
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Environmental Studies (General), Urban Studies, Development Studies, Anthropology (General)
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Acknowledgements --; 1. Introduction: Cultural and Material Forms of Urban Pollution --; 2. ‘Tidy Kiwis/Dirty Asians’: Cultural Pollution and Migration in Auckland, New Zealand --; 3. Private Cleanliness, Public Mess: Purity, Pollution and Space in Kottar, South India --; 4. The Jungle and the City: Perceptions of the Urban among Indo- Fijians in Suva, Fiji --; 5. Gendered Fears of Pollution: Traversing Public Space in Neoliberal Cairo --; 6. The Choice between Clean and Dirty: Discourses of Aesthetics, Morality and Progress in Post-Revolutionary Asmara, Eritrea --; 7. Using Pollution to Frame Collective Action: Urban Grassroots Mobilisations in Budapest --; 8. Cleanness, Order and Security: The Re-emergence of Restrictive Definitions of Urbanity in Europe --; 9. Social Equity and Social Housing Densification in Glen Innes, New Zealand: A Political Ecology Approach --; 10. Afterword: Impure Thoughts on Messy Cities --; Notes on Contributors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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 are attached to conceptions of ‘clean’ and ‘dirty’, purity and impurity, healthy and unhealthy environments, and addresses the implications of pollution with regard to discrimination, class, urban poverty, social hierarchies and ethnic segregation in cities
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845458485?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781845458485
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781845458485/original
ER  -