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9781780764177: Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination

Sinopsis

What do our attitudes to dirt and cleanliness tell us about ourselves and the societies we live in? Exploring a variety of settings - domestic, urban, suburban and rural, this title exposes how our ideas about dirt are intimately bound up with issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and the body.

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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).

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9781845116729: Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination

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ISBN 10:  1845116720 ISBN 13:  9781845116729
Editorial: I.B. Tauris, 2007
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