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Conference Paper: Do Flush Toilets Have Politics?
| Title | Do Flush Toilets Have Politics? |
|---|---|
| Authors | |
| Issue Date | 2015 |
| Citation | Council on East Asian Studies (CEAS) Colloquium Series Lecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, 9 April 2015 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | According to the United Nations, by 2025, 1.9 billion people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world population could be under water stress conditions. In this talk, Santos argues that one of the best ways to capture the making of contemporary water shortage anxieties is to explore the global history of the modern flush toilet and the hydraulic system of waste disposal supporting its operation. Drawing on historical and ethnographic research on the spread of the flush toilet in rural South China, this paper calls for the need to consider alternatives to the remarkably wasteful system of human waste management locked-in to our built environments. |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/260062 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Santos, GD | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-03T04:27:38Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2018-09-03T04:27:38Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | Council on East Asian Studies (CEAS) Colloquium Series Lecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, 9 April 2015 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/260062 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | According to the United Nations, by 2025, 1.9 billion people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world population could be under water stress conditions. In this talk, Santos argues that one of the best ways to capture the making of contemporary water shortage anxieties is to explore the global history of the modern flush toilet and the hydraulic system of waste disposal supporting its operation. Drawing on historical and ethnographic research on the spread of the flush toilet in rural South China, this paper calls for the need to consider alternatives to the remarkably wasteful system of human waste management locked-in to our built environments. | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | CEAS (Council on East Asian Studies) Colloquium Series Lecture, Yale University | - |
| dc.title | Do Flush Toilets Have Politics? | - |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
| dc.identifier.email | Santos, GD: santos@hku.hk | - |
| dc.identifier.authority | Santos, GD=rp01771 | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 288557 | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 247917 | - |