Beads, Bodies, and Trash
Public Sex, Global Labor, and the Disposability of Mardi Gras
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Customs & Traditions, Crimes & Criminals, Criminology, Popular Culture
| Author: | David Redmon | ISBN: | 9781317653097 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | July 17, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | David Redmon |
| ISBN: | 9781317653097 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | July 17, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
Beads, Bodies, and Trash merges cultural sociology with a commodity chain analysis by following Mardi Gras beads to their origins. Beginning with Bourbon Street of New Orleans, this book moves to the grim factories in the tax-free economic zone of rural Fuzhou, China. Beads, Bodies, and Trash will increase students’ capacity to think critically about and question everyday objects that circulate around the globe: where do objects come from, how do they emerge, where do they end up, what are their properties, what assemblages do they form, and what are the consequences (both beneficial and harmful) of those properties on the environment and human bodies? This book also asks students to confront how the beads can contradictorily be implicated in fun, sexist, unequal, and toxic relationships of production, consumption, and disposal. With a companion documentary, Mardi Gras Made in China, this book introduces students to recording technologies as possible research tools.
Beads, Bodies, and Trash merges cultural sociology with a commodity chain analysis by following Mardi Gras beads to their origins. Beginning with Bourbon Street of New Orleans, this book moves to the grim factories in the tax-free economic zone of rural Fuzhou, China. Beads, Bodies, and Trash will increase students’ capacity to think critically about and question everyday objects that circulate around the globe: where do objects come from, how do they emerge, where do they end up, what are their properties, what assemblages do they form, and what are the consequences (both beneficial and harmful) of those properties on the environment and human bodies? This book also asks students to confront how the beads can contradictorily be implicated in fun, sexist, unequal, and toxic relationships of production, consumption, and disposal. With a companion documentary, Mardi Gras Made in China, this book introduces students to recording technologies as possible research tools.
