Caring for Life
A Postdevelopment Politics of Infant Hygiene
$79.79
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
18 June 2024
Summary
The transformational possibilities of everyday hygiene and care practices
In order to mitigate the worst forecasts of climate change, many of us need to make drastic adjustments to how we live and what we consume. For Kelly Dombroski, these changes must also happen in the home: in rethinking routines of care and hygiene that still rely on disposable and plastic products. Caring for Life examines the remarkable evolution in Asia-Pacific hygiene practices and a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781517901608 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 151790160X |
| Author: | Kelly Dombroski |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Imprint: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 18 June 2024 |
| Weight: | 283g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 140mm x 216mm |
| Series: | Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds |
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Critics Review
“Caring for people and planet should go hand-in-hand but mostly do not. Embracing global multiplicity and diversity in hygiene, health, and care assemblages, Kelly Dombroski offers hopeful and creative paths to socioecological change by guarding human and more-than-human life. This is a transformative book for our troubled times and essential for research on contemporary care practices.”-MarÍa Puig de la Bellacasa, author of Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds
“Kelly Dombroski has written a brilliant book on hygiene as the ‘guarding of life.’ With great honesty, she sets out the possibilities for environmental and social change in a thought-provoking treatise on how to shift from resource-intensive and waste-producing practices to the flourishing of human and nonhuman life, beginning with an appreciation for infant hygiene practices in out-of-the-way places. A must-read for all of us striving to multiply possibilities for planetary transformation and communal wellbeing.”-Wendy Harcourt, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam
“A wonderful example of possibilities for environmental and social transformation. This book is a model and tool for other researchers who are passionate about using feminist and decolonial practices in ethnographic fieldwork.”-Canadian Geographies
“This volume emerges as a groundbreaking and fundamental overview of the current state of DH in the Global South. It illuminates the distinctive challenges prevalent in these regions […] and links them with a comprehensive body of critical literature.”-H-Net Reviews
Kelly Dombroski
Kelly Dombroski is associate professor in geography at Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand.
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