The SOAS Shit Reader: Proceedings of the conference ‘Merde Alors! - An interdisciplinary conference on excrement, past, present, and future’, SOAS, University of London, 21-22 October 2023 - Softcover
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ii + 212 pages, illustrations (some colour) : 30 cm. CONTENTS 00. Preface Elizabeth Hull [Food Studies Centre, SOAS University of London] 01. Introduction Ed Emery [SOAS, University of London] 1. Sanitation, culture, and civilisation in the Arab East: a historical and ecological reflection Amal Al-Jubouri [SOAS, University of London] 2. Breaking the silence on gendered sanitation taboos across urban Africa Adriana Allen [University College London] 3. The truth about manual scavenging In India Asad Ashraf 4. Boys will be boys: the putto pissatore in European Renaissance art Charles Avery [Independent researcher] 5. Colour, cloth, colonialism: the alchemy of shit and piss John Barker [Independent researcher] 6. Keeping soils healthy with shit: what we can learn from Chinese farmers Nicole Elizabeth Barnes [Duke University] 7. Cess pits and society John Collis [University of Sheffield] 65 87 8. The "Dirty Strike" of Irish Republican prisoners in British jails, 1976-81 Ed Emery [SOAS, University of London] 1 3 7 13 .35 39 55 59 9. The remarkable preservation of excrement in the archaeological record and what can be done with it Eleanor Green [University of York / Natural History Museum, London] 97 10. Shit and civilisation - Western reports on nightsoil in 18th and 19th century China Jörg H. Hüsemann [Leipzig University] 109 11. Brown Gold? Reconciling existing practices and new innovations for shit re- use Lyla Mehta [Institute of Development Studies] 121 12. "Shit business is serious business": Isaac Durojaiye Agbetusin ("Otunba Gaddafi") and the business of mobile toilets in Lagos (Nigeria) since the 1990s Ayodeji Olukoju [University of Lagos] 133 13. Questions of economics and hygiene. Recovering and using excrement in Italian cities and countryside in the late 19th century Manuel Vaquero Piñeiro [University of Perugia] and Luciano Maffi [University of Parma] 141 14. Poo in climate activism Claire Preston [Little Blue Dot] 153 157 15. Collecting for the National Poo Museum Daniel Roberts [National Poo Museum] 16. Latrine discipline during the American Civil War Ben Roy [University of Georgia 159 17. Take a break: traces of social behaviour in Portuguese factory toilets João Sequeira (University of Minho] and Tânia Casimiro [NOVA University of Lisbon] 173 18. Dump and pump: the impact of COVID-19 and income on septic system pumping patterns in Athens-Clarke County, Georgia Julia Sharapi [University of Georgia] 183 19. Shitological Marxism: political subjectivities among the sanitation workers of Mumbai Ahwar Sultan [Ohio State University] 187 APPENDICES Appendix 1. An annotated list of Shit Songs from around the world 199 Appendix 2. The birth of the villeyn [Dario Fo] 207 Appendix 3. The land impoverished by the sea [Victor Hugo]
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The SOAS Shit Reader: Proceedings of the conference : Merde Alors! - An interdisciplinary conference on excrement, past, present, and future?, SOAS, University of London, 21-22 October 2023
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Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. ii + 212 pages, illustrations (some colour) : 30 cm. CONTENTS 00. Preface Elizabeth Hull [Food Studies Centre, SOAS University of London] 01. Introduction Ed Emery [SOAS, University of London] 1. Sanitation, culture, and civilisation in the Arab East: a historical and ecological reflection Amal Al-Jubouri [SOAS, University of London] 2. Breaking the silence on gendered sanitation taboos across urban Africa Adriana Allen [University College London] 3. The truth about manual scavenging In India Asad Ashraf 4. Boys will be boys: the putto pissatore in European Renaissance art Charles Avery [Independent researcher] 5. Colour, cloth, colonialism: the alchemy of shit and piss John Barker [Independent researcher] 6. Keeping soils healthy with shit: what we can learn from Chinese farmers Nicole Elizabeth Barnes [Duke University] 7. Cess pits and society John Collis [University of Sheffield] 65 87 8. The "Dirty Strike" of Irish Republican prisoners in British jails, 1976-81 Ed Emery [SOAS, University of London] 1 3 7 13 .35 39 55 59 9. The remarkable preservation of excrement in the archaeological record and what can be done with it Eleanor Green [University of York / Natural History Museum, London] 97 10. Shit and civilisation - Western reports on nightsoil in 18th and 19th century China Jörg H. Hüsemann [Leipzig University] 109 11. Brown Gold? Reconciling existing practices and new innovations for shit re- use Lyla Mehta [Institute of Development Studies] 121 12. "Shit business is serious business": Isaac Durojaiye Agbetusin ("Otunba Gaddafi") and the business of mobile toilets in Lagos (Nigeria) since the 1990s Ayodeji Olukoju [University of Lagos] 133 13. Questions of economics and hygiene. Recovering and using excrement in Italian cities and countryside in the late 19th century Manuel Vaquero Piñeiro [University of Perugia] and Luciano Maffi [University of Parma] 141 14. Poo in climate activism Claire Preston [Little Blue Dot] 153 157 15. Collecting for the National Poo Museum Daniel Roberts [National Poo Museum] 16. Latrine discipline during the American Civil War Ben Roy [University of Georgia 159 17. Take a break: traces of social behaviour in Portuguese factory toilets João Sequeira (University of Minho] and Tânia Casimiro [NOVA University of Lisbon] 173 18. Dump and pump: the impact of COVID-19 and income on septic system pumping patterns in Athens-Clarke County, Georgia Julia Sharapi [University of Georgia] 183 19. Shitological Marxism: political subjectivities among the sanitation workers of Mumbai Ahwar Sultan [Ohio State University] 187 APPENDICES Appendix 1. An annotated list of Shit Songs from around the world 199 Appendix 2. The birth of the villeyn [Dario Fo] 207 Appendix 3. The land impoverished by the sea [Victor Hugo]. Seller Inventory # PGRNX01
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