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Berghahn Books Urban Pollution Cultural Meanings Social Practices 2010 Edition by Eveline Durr, Rivke Jaffe
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. Table of contents :- List of FiguresAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Introduction: Cultural and Material Forms of Urban PollutionRivke Jaffe and Eveline DurrChapter 2. 'Tidy Kiwis/Dirty Asians': Cultural Pollution and Migration in Auckland, New ZealandEveline DurrChapter 3. Private Cleanliness, Public Mess: Purity, Pollution and Space in Kottar, South IndiaDamaris LuthiChapter 4. The Jungle and the City: Perceptions of the Urban among Indo-Fijians in Suva, FijiSusanna TrnkaChapter 5. Gendered Fears of Pollution: Traversing Public Space in NeoliberalCairoAnouk de KoningChapter 6. The Choice between Clean and Dirty: Discourses of Aesthetics, Morality and Progress in Post-Revolutionary Asmari, EritreaMagnus TreiberChapter 7.Using Pollution to Frame Collective Action: Urban Grassroots Mobilisations in BudapestSzabina KerenyiChapter 8. Cleanness, Order and Security: The Re-emergence of Restrictive Definitions of Urbanity in EuropeJohanna RolshovenChapter 9. Social Equity and Social Housing Densification in Glen Innes, New Zealand: A Political Ecology ApproachKathryn Scott, Angela Shaw and Christina >BavaChapter 10. Afterword: Impure Thoughts on Messy CitiesAidan DavisonNotes on ContributorsIndex