Multiplying possibilities: A postdevelopment approach to hygiene and sanitation in Northwest China

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dc.citation.issue3
dc.citation.volume56
dc.contributor.authorDombroski KF
dc.date.available2015-12
dc.date.issued2015-12
dc.descriptionCAUL read and publish agreement 2022
dc.description.abstractPostdevelopment thinkers and writers have critiqued development discourse for its role in perpetuating inequality. In water, hygiene and sanitation (WASH) literature and interventions, the discourse used perpetuates inequality through classing anything other than private toilets as ‘without sanitation’. This implies that the people who use forms of hygiene and sanitation relying on collective toilets and alternative strategies are somehow unhygienic. Yet residents of Xining (Qinghai Province, China) rely on hygiene assemblages that do not always include private toilets, but nonetheless still work to guard health for families with young children. In this paper, I develop a postdevelopment approach to hygiene and sanitation based on starting with the place-based hygiene realities already working to guard health in some way, then working to multiply possibilities for future discursive and material hygiene realities. In this approach, contemporary and future realities may look quite different from those based on private toilets.
dc.description.notesAccepted.<br />
dc.format.extent321 - 334
dc.identifier.citationAsia Pacific Viewpoint, 2015, 56 (3), pp. 321 - 334
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/apv.12078
dc.identifier.elements-id454176
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.relation.isPartOfAsia Pacific Viewpoint
dc.subjecthygiene, assemblages, sanitation, water, development, post-development
dc.subject.anzsrc1604 Human Geography
dc.subject.anzsrc1606 Political Science
dc.titleMultiplying possibilities: A postdevelopment approach to hygiene and sanitation in Northwest China
dc.typeJournal article
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences/School of People, Enviroment and Planning
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