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100 1 $aNewell, Stephanie,$d1968-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96106890$eauthor.
245 10 $aHistories of dirt :$bmedia and urban life in colonial and postcolonial Lagos /$cStephanie Newell.
264 1 $aDurham :$bDuke University Press,$c2020.
300 $axix, 249 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aHistories 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.
520 $a"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 category to move beyond the fixation on purity and cleanliness to encompass understandings of, and interactions with, dirt as a dimension of urbanization. Newell thus situates her study of dirt between the failings of colonial interpretations of dirt and the multifaceted connotations of dirt in the West African context. Through archival work, she asserts that dirt structured colonial understandings of public health, which then gradually enabled a discourse through which hygiene policies under the British Annexation of Lagos were set--the same logic that enabled racial segregation in the name of public health. Newell reads the deep history of "sanitary salvation," or the set of related public health initiatives meant to enable clean and healthy colonial subjects, against present-day discussions concerning health, well-being, and daily life in West African cities.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aNewell, Stephanie, 1968- author.$tHistories of dirt in West Africa$dDurham : Duke University Press, 2020$z9781478007067$w(DLC) 2019016769