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Welcome to the online publication page for
THE
SOAS
SHIT
READER
Papers
arising out of the conference
'Merde Alors! An
interdisciplinary conference
on excrement, past, present and future'
held at the
[SOAS,
on 21-22 October 2023
PLEASE
NOTE: Our next conference
will be held in
on 18-19 November 2025. If you are interested to attend,
please write to ee11@soas.ac.uk for registration
details.
Photo: River
CONTENTS OF THE BOOK
[In alphabetical order of authors.
This
is a provisional working list. Working links are marked in blue.
Other
articles will be added
when
we have completed their editing]
00.
Preface
Ed
Emery [SOAS,
00. Introduction
Elizabeth
Hull [Food Studies Centre, SOAS University of London] [Download Introduction]
01.
Sanitation, culture, and civilisation in the Arab
East: a historical and ecological reflection
Amal Al-Jubouri
[SOAS, University of London] [Download full article]
02. Breaking
the silence on gendered sanitation taboos across urban Africa
Adriana
Allen [University College London] [Abstract]
[Download full
article]
03. The truth about manual scavenging in India
Asad Ashraf [Independent researcher] [Download
full article]
04. 'Boys will be
boys': the putto pissatore
in European Renaissance art
Charles Avery [Independent researcher] [Abstract] [Download full article]
05. Colour, cloth, colonialism: the alchemy of shit and
piss
John Barker [Independent researcher] [Abstract] [Download full
article]
06. Keeping
soils healthy with shit: what we can learn from Chinese farmers
Nicole
Elizabeth Barnes [Duke University]
07. Cess pits and society: defecation as an indicator
of social evolution and organisation
John
Collis [University of Sheffield] [Abstract] [Download full article]
08. The
'Dirty Strike' of Irish Republican prisoners in British jails, 1976-81
Ed
Emery [SOAS, University of London] [Abstract] [Download full article]
09. The
remarkable preservation of excrement in the archaeological record and what can
be done with it
Eleanor
Green [University of York and Natural History Museum, London] [Abstract] [Download full article]
10. Shit
and Civilisation - Western reports on nightsoil in 18th and 19th century China
Joerg H. Huesemann
[Leipzig University] [Abstract] [Download full
article]
11. Brown
Gold? Reconciling existing practices and new innovations for shit re-use
Lyla Mehta
(Institute of Development Studies) and Tanvi Bhatkal (Institute of Development Studies), et al. [Abstract] [Download full article]
12. 'Shit
business is serious business': Isaac Durojaiye Agbetusin ('Otunba Gaddafi') and
the business of mobile toilets in Lagos (Nigeria) since the 1990s
Ayodeji Olukoju [University of Lagos] [Abstract] [Download full article]
13. Questions of economics and hygiene: Recovering and using
excrement in Italian cities and countryside in the late 19th century
Manuel Vaquero Pineiro [University of Perugia]
and Luciano Maffi [University
of Parma] [Abstract] [Download full
article]
14. Poo
in climate activism
Claire Preston [Little Blue
Dot] [Download full article]
15. A
request for poo donations
Daniel
Roberts [National Poo Museum] [Download full article]
16. How
latrines lost the war: Race, waste, disease, and demoralisation
in the Confederate army
Benjamin
Roy [University of Georgia] [Abstract] [Download full article]
17. Take a break: traces of social behaviour in
Portuguese factory toilets
Joao Sequeira
(University of Minho] and Tania Casimiro
[NOVA University of Lisbon] [Download full article]
18. Dump
and pump: The impact of COVID-19 and income on septic system pumping patterns
in Athens-Clarke County, Georgia
Julia Sharapi [University of
Georgia] [Abstract] [Download full article]
19. Shitological
Marxism: Political subjectivities among the sanitation workers of Mumbai
Ahwar Sultan [Ohio State University ] [Abstract] [Download full
article]
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FURTHER
INFORMATION
Hosting: Our
conference is hosted by the Food Studies Centre, SOAS, University of London,
and we extend our thanks to them.
Access the
conference programme: HERE
A small pre-Conference fanfare. You can access a surprising collection of Shit Songs from Around the World HERE
Conference
organiser and further information:
Discussion
List: If you wish to join our JISC
discussion list, you will find us at
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/shitology
Hashtag
for conference programme: #shitologyconference
#shitology
Hashtag
for The SOAS Shit Reader: #soasshitreader