"Placing "Matter Out of Place
Purity and Dangeras Evidence for Architecture and Urbanism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5772870 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ben Campkin (0000-0002-2771-7971, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 46-61 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Architectural Theory Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1326-4826 • E-ISSN: 1755-0475 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13264826.2013.785579 |
| OpenAlex | W2013419284 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
This paper revisits Mary Douglas' Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (1966). A survey of this theory in architecture in the late-twentieth century reveals how it focused attention on relationships between dirt, cleanliness, and the design and organisation of space-an area previously neglected in architectural thought. Dirt remains an important focus within architectural and urban theory, with implications for practice. Yet, the intersections that scholars of the 1980s and 1990s made between Douglas' work and critical theory, feminist and psychoanalytic writings elicited problems with her structuralist approach that remain unresolved. These are apparent in considering relationships between dirt and cities-indeed, the aphorism Douglas invokes, "dirt is matter out of place", originates in discussions of nineteenth-century urbanisation. To better understand dirt's relationships with modern and late-modern capitalist cities, Douglas' insights can be productively read alongside post-structuralist accounts, including the psychoanalytic notion of the abject and recent neo-Marxian scholarship on the production of urban nature
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Unruly Waters, Unsanitary Bodies Abject Terrains, Rehabilitation, and Infrastructures of Dispossession on the U.S.–Mexico Border
Public Spitting in ‘Developing’ Nations of the Global South
Toward an Anthropological Understanding of Space and Place
The burning tower
From Homeland to Homelands and Back Again
Life Out Of Place
Huronia's Double Bind
Writing anthropandemics – the strangely connected social geographies of Covid-19, plastic waste, and obesity
Visualising the past for the future
Go get a job right after you take a bath”
Standardised difference
Food, meaning-making and ontological uncertainty
Moldy homes
The violent uncanny
Everyday territories
Estranged companions
The Urbanization of the Sanitation Crisis
Working out Douglas's aphorism
Thin-slicing Tremé as a subjective sashay
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |