Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1845116720 ISBN 13 : 9781845116729

Editeur : I.B. Tauris, 2007

Synopsis

Dirt - and our rituals to eradicate it - are as much a part of our everyday lives as eating, breathing and sleeping. Yet this very fact means that we seldom question what we mean by dirt. What do our attitudes to dirt and cleanliness tell us about ourselves and the societies we live in? This innovative work exposes the interests which underlie everyday conceptions of dirt and reveals how our ideas about it are intimately bound up with issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and the body. Exploring a wide variety of settings - domestic, urban and rural - it reveals how attitudes to dirt and cleanliness become manifest in surprisingly diverse ways, including the rituals of death and burial; architectural design aesthetics; urban infrastructure and regeneration; film symbolism; and consumer attitudes to food.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Ben Campkin is the author of Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in London, which in 2014 won the Urban Communication Foundation Jane Jacobs Award and was Commended in the Royal Institute for British Architects President’s Awards for Research. Ben is Professor of Urbanism and Urban History at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK, and Co-Director of UCL Urban Laboratory.

Rosie Cox is Professor of Geography at Birkbeck, University of London. She has been researching au pairs and other forms of paid domestic labour in the UK for nearly 20 years. She is the author of The Servant Problem: Domestic Employment in a Global Economy (2006), coeditor of Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination (2007), co-author of Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food: Exploring Alternatives (2008), Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life (2011) and editor of Au Pairs' Lives in Global Context (2015).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: I.B. Tauris
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845116720
• ISBN 13: 9781845116729
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Éditeur: Campkin Prof. Ben, Cox Rosie
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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