{"product_id":"urban-pollution-cultural-meanings-social-practices-9781782385080","title":"Urban Pollution: Cultural Meanings, Social","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tRe-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 \u003ci\u003ePurity and Danger\u003c\/i\u003e? 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“…this volume offers a range of useful accounts of cultural construction of pollution, deployed as an idiom in the ordering and negotiating of social relations in a range of urban settings. The illustration of how assertions of pollution are racialized, gendered, and classed, and the range of debates in which pollution is deployed as a discursive as well as material form, usefully broaden the frame of urban and environmental anthropology.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“[These essays] are of high academic quality and present often penetrating ethnographic and historical insight into the negotiation of (im)purity in a variety of cultural contexts. They offer a stimulating and engaging read.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Aidan Davison, \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Tasmania\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Introduction: Cultural and Material Forms of Urban Pollution\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRivke Jaffe\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEveline Dürr\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘Tidy Kiwis\/Dirty Asians’: Cultural Pollution and Migration in Auckland, New Zealand\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eEveline Dürr\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Private Cleanliness, Public Mess: Purity, Pollution and Space in Kottar, South India\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDamaris Lüthi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Jungle and the City: Perceptions of the Urban among Indo-Fijians in Suva, Fiji\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSusanna Trnka\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Gendered Fears of Pollution: Traversing Public Space in NeoliberalCairo\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAnouk de Koning\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Choice between Clean and Dirty: Discourses of Aesthetics, Morality and Progress in Post-Revolutionary Asmari, Eritrea\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMagnus Treiber\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003eUsing Pollution to Frame Collective Action: Urban Grassroots Mobilisations in Budapest\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSzabina Kerényi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Cleanness, Order and Security: The Re-emergence of Restrictive Definitions of Urbanity in Europe\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJohanna Rolshoven\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Social Equity and Social Housing Densification in Glen Innes, New Zealand: A Political Ecology Approach\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKathryn Scott\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAngela Shaw\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eChristina \u0026gt;Bava\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Afterword: Impure Thoughts on Messy Cities\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAidan Davison\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042218115415,"sku":"9781782385080","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781782385080.jpg?v=1750953490","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/urban-pollution-cultural-meanings-social-practices-9781782385080","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}