300
Pollution, Defilement and Disgust

Saturday, July 19, 2014: 12:30 PM-2:20 PM
Room: 303
RC16 Sociological Theory (host committee)

Language: English

The session sets out to explore the nature and function of pollution, defilement and disgust in social life. Particular emphasis is given to attempts at theoretical innovation.
Session Organizer:
Philip SMITH, Yale University, USA
300.1
The Ick Factor: The Resignification of the Grasshopper (Oral Presentation)
Jason MAST, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

300.2
The “Incest-Beast” of Amstetten (Oral Presentation)
Marco GERSTER, Konstanz University, Germany; Kim-Claude MEYER, Konstanz University, Germany

300.3
“He Is Not Clean:” an Ethnography of Surveillance and Emotions Among Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank and Israel (Oral Presentation)
Silvia PASQUETTI, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

300.4
Civil Awareness: A Comparison of the 2011 Occupy Wall Street Movement in the Uniteted States and the 2008 Mad Cow Disease Protests in Korea (Oral Presentation)
Yoojin JUNG, The Asia Institute, South Korea

300.5
Tortured Bodies, Ravaged Flesh, Killing Machines: David Cronenberg and the Sociology of Disgust (Oral Presentation)
Rafael MARQUES, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestao, Portugal

300.6
On Dry Othering (Oral Presentation)
Philip SMITH, Yale University, USA

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