Urban Pollution

Eveline Dürr is Professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Ludwig- Maximilians-University, Munich. She has conducted fieldwork in Mexico, the USA and Germany, and also in New Zealand while she was Associate Professor at the Auckland University of Technology. Her research focuses on urban anthropology, cultural identities and representations.

“…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.”  ·  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute“[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."  ·  Aidan Davison, University of Tasmania

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Introduction: Cultural and Material Forms of Urban PollutionRivke Jaffe and Eveline DürrChapter 2. ‘Tidy Kiwis/Dirty Asians’: Cultural Pollution and Migration in Auckland, New ZealandEveline DürrChapter 3. Private Cleanliness, Public Mess: Purity, Pollution and Space in Kottar, South IndiaDamaris LüthiChapter 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 KerényiChapter 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