Histories of Dirt : Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos /

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"HISTORIES OF DIRT IN WEST AFRICA is a historical and cultural approach to the study of dirt in relation to public health, governance, and daily life in urban West Africa. While in the Anglophone world dirt is evoked to denote a problem, Stephanie Newell broadens dirt as an interpretive categor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Newell, Stephanie, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Urbanität
Schmutz
Öffentliches Gesundheitswesen
Moral
Urban health.
Sanitation.
Public health.
Environmental health.
HISTORY / Africa / West
Salubrite publique > Nigeria > Lagos.
Sante urbaine > Nigeria > Lagos.
Sante publique > Nigeria > Lagos.
Environmental health > Nigeria > Lagos.
Sanitation > Nigeria > Lagos.
Urban health > Nigeria > Lagos.
Public health > Nigeria > Lagos.
Lagos
Nigeria > Lagos.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Histories of dirt
  • European insanitary nuisances
  • Malaria: lines in the dirt
  • African newspapers, the 'great unofficial public', and plague in Colonial Lagos
  • Screening dirt: public health movies in Colonial Nigeria and rural spectatorship in the 1930s and 1940s
  • Methods, unsound methods, no methods at all?
  • Popular perceptions of 'dirty' in multicultural Lagos
  • Remembering waste
  • City sexualities: negotiating homophobia
  • Mediated publics, uncontrollable audiences.

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