This paper explores spaces where urgent environmental health imperatives intersect with deeply entrenched cultural norms surrounding human waste and the barriers they create for the development of more appropriate excreta management systems.
Title | Geographies of shit : spatial and temporal variations in attitudes towards human waste |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2011 |
Authors | Jewitt, S |
Secondary Title | Progress in human geography |
Volume | vol. 35 |
Issue | no. 5 |
Pagination | p.608-626 |
Date Published | 02/2011 |
Publication Language | English |
Keywords | beliefs, cultural aspects, environmental health, excreta, excreta disposal systems, open defecation, public health |
Abstract | Taboos surrounding human waste have resulted in a lack of attention to spatial inequalities |
Notes | Includes 119 references |
URL | http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1981/1/Jewitt_2011_Geographies_of_Shit_PIHG_eprints_.pdf |
DOI | 10.1177/0309132510394704 |