Dirt

'Campkin and Cox have given us a fresh approach in a well thought out collection ... well worth reading' - D. Jorgensen, Humanities & Social Sciences Online

Ben Campkin is Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory and Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. He is the author of London's Urban Landscape (I.B.Tauris, forthcoming). Rosie Cox is Senior Lecturer in Geography and Gender Studies in the Department of Geography, Environment & Development, Birkbeck, London University. She is the author of Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food and The Servant Problem (I.B.Tauris, 2006)

Contents Introduction: materialities and metaphors of dirt and cleanliness Ben Campkin and Rosie Cox Section 1 Home: Domestic Dirt and Cleaning 1 Linguistic leakiness or really dirty? Dirt in social theory Carol Wolkowitz 2 Domestic workers and pollution in Brazil Livia Barbosa 3 The visible and the invisible Lydia Martens 4 Bring home the dead: purity & filth in contemporary funeral homes Kyro Selket Section 2 City & Suburb: Urban Dirt and Cleansing 5 Degradation and regeneration: theories of dirt and the contemporary city Ben Campkin 6 From the dirty city to the spoiled suburb Paul Watt 7 Dangers lurking everywhere: the sex offender as pollution Pamela K. Gilbert 8 Hygiene aesthetics on London's gay scene: the stigma of AIDS Johan Andersson 9 Spiritual cleansing: priests & prostitutes in early Victorian London Dominic Janes 10 Mapping sewer spaces in mid-Victorian London Paul Dobraszczyk 11 The cinematic sewer David L. Pike Section 3 Country: Constructing Rural Dirt Introduction Rosie Cox 12 Dirt & development: alternative , modernities in Thailand Alyson Brody 13 Dirty Foods, Healthy Communities ? Gareth Enticott 14 Dirty vegetables connecting consumers to the growing of their food Lewis Holloway, Laura Venn, Rosie Cox, Moya Kneafsey, Elizabeth Dowler, Herlena Tuomainen 15 Dirty cows: perceptions of BSE/vCJD Bruce A. Scholten Contributors Notes References Index