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Multiplying possibilities: A postdevelopment approach to hygiene and…
Multiplying possibilities: A postdevelopment approach to hygiene and sanitation in Northwest China (Dombroski 2015)
Introduction
Hygiene and sanitation systems of the minority world are resource intensive in terms of water usage, infrastructure and chemicals
In majority world, diseases by contamination and inadequate sanitation- WASH- specific set of practices, socialities, spatialities and materialities
We continue to image the minority world hygiene assemblages as the only possible sanitation future for the majority of the world's people
Water based sanitation are effective in many places, their absence does not necessarily indicate poor hygiene or open defecation
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Rather, we approach social change as co-workers in change globally, in the knowledge that in this era of anthropogenic environmental and climatic change, we can no longer maintain the fiction that the lifestyles of the minority world are reproducible. Social and material change is necessary all over the world. Small scale discursive interventions
Beliefs and practices have been embedded and embodied in our daily routine and are situated in their own historical and geographical context
My proposal is that a postdevelopment project of hygiene and sanitation would look for this multiplicity and diversity, rather than accepting a preconceived standard about what hygiene and sanitation ‘ought’ to look like and then measuring how far a place is from this standard
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Conclusion
this paper has sought to start with what is there, mapping
out the hygiene assemblages already working to ‘guard life’ or keep health for those in simple circumstances. Using these appreciative conceptual mappings, we then might multiply future possibilities by taking these diverse forms of hygiene seriously, and amplifying them by
making them known to a wider audience.
This is what a postdevelopment project of hygiene and sanitation might look like: directly engaging with the
discursive politics of development, and working to amplify the diversity of hygiene and sanitation realities considered possible and feasible, and thus what is enacted through development projects.