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- Condition
- Book Title
- Caring for Life : A Postdevelopment Politics of Infant Hygiene
- ISBN
- 9781517901608
- Subject Area
- Nature, Social Science, Medical
- Publication Name
- Caring for Life : a Postdevelopment Politics of Infant Hygiene
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Subject
- Pediatrics, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Sociology / General
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Series
- Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Item Weight
- 10 Oz
- Item Width
- 7.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
151790160X
ISBN-13
9781517901608
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24063293438
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Publication Name
Caring for Life : a Postdevelopment Politics of Infant Hygiene
Language
English
Subject
Pediatrics, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Sociology / General
Publication Year
2024
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Nature, Social Science, Medical
Series
Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
10 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
7.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2024-000301
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"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, "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 a must-read for research on contemporary care practices."--Maria 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
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
613.0432091823
Synopsis
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 amplifies the creative work of ordinary people guarding human and more-than-human life in their everyday practices of care. Dombroski develops the concept of "guarding life," a viewpoint that counters homogenous cultural practices and imposed sanitation standards and instead embraces diverse hygiene practices that are networked across varying wisdoms and bodies. She traces how the Chinese diaper-free infant toilet training practice of baniao has traveled to Australia and New Zealand, and she explores the practice of elimination communication, in which babies learn to communicate to their caregivers when they need to eliminate, thus removing the need for diapers. A mother herself, Dombroski conducted ethnographic research while mothering to examine how collectives of mothers draw on Chinese knowledge and their own embodied practices of childcare to create new hybrid forms of infant care. Caring for Life is a call to action, a theory of change, and a fascinating account of the transformational possibilities of care practices. It shows how experiments in personal care can lead to collective, widespread change, ultimately providing a practical and hopeful vision for environmental action. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions., Caring for Life explores how collectives of mothers draw on Chinese knowledge and their own embodied practices of childcare to create new hybrid forms of infant care. Tracing how the Chinese diaper-free infant toilet training practice of baniao has traveled to Australia and New Zealand and examining the practice of infant elimination communication, Kelly Dombroski develops the concept of "guarding life," a viewpoint that counters homogenous cultural practices and imposed sanitation standards to embrace diverse hygiene practices that are networked across varying wisdoms and bodies. A call to action, a theory of change, and a fascinating account of the transformational possibilities of care practices, Caring for Life shows how experiments in personal care can lead to collective, widespread change, ultimately providing a practical and hopeful vision for environmental action.
LC Classification Number
RJ103.P17D36 2024
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