Social Dynamics, Volume 44, Issue 1 (2018)

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The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa (Guest Editors: Louise Green and Stephanie Newell)

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Putting dirt in its place: the cultural politics of dirt in Africa
Stephanie Newell & Louise Green
Pages: 1-5
Published online: 21 Mar 2018
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Screening dirt: public health movies in colonial Nigeria and rural African spectatorship in the 1930s and 1940s
Stephanie Newell
Pages: 6-20
Published online: 01 Mar 2018
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E.H. Duckworth’s Clean-Up Lagos Campaigns: the political use of ex-centric colonial discourse on African dirt
Terri Ochiagha
Pages: 21-37
Published online: 03 Apr 2018
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Waste’s dominion: the gymnastics of value in informal markets
Moulay Driss El Maarouf
Pages: 38-54
Published online: 14 Mar 2018
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Human waste/wasting humans: dirt, disposable bodies and power relations in Nigerian newspaper reports
Patrick Oloko
Pages: 55-68
Published online: 14 Mar 2018
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Making sense of the politics of sanitation in Cape Town
Shannon Jackson & Steven Robins
Pages: 69-87
Published online: 06 Mar 2018
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“Filthy rich” and “dirt poor:” social and cultural dimensions of solid waste management (SWM) in Lagos
Ayodeji Olukoju
Pages: 88-106
Published online: 08 Feb 2018
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Accumulating history: dirt, remains and urban decay in Nairobi
Constance Smith
Pages: 107-127
Published online: 03 Apr 2018
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Notes from underground: fugitive ecology and the ethics of place
Sarah L. Lincoln
Pages: 128-145
Published online: 14 Mar 2018
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The “baboon boy” of the Eastern Cape and the making of the human in South Africa
Eckard Smuts
Pages: 146-157
Published online: 22 Feb 2018
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Effluence, “waste” and African Humanism: extra-anthropocentric being and human rightness
Rosemary J. Jolly
Pages: 158-178
Published online: 01 Apr 2018
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