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Urban Pollution : Cultural Meanings, Social Practices / ed. by Rivke Jaffe, Eveline Dürr.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ; 15Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781845456924
  • 9781845458485
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.76 23
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  • GN395 .U74 2014
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
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 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.
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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

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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.

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