Sociology of Sanitation : themes And Perspectives

About The Book:- Exclusion from safe water and basic sanitation destroys more lives than any casualty. As an instrumental exclusion it reinforces the deep inequalities in life chances and life styles that divide countries and people on the basis of spatial wealth gender caste and other markers for deprivation. The works emphasizes that the idea of sanitation is a buzz word for various development policies and planning ensuring community participation. Intricacies of sanitation urgently need to be tapped in a holistic framework. The book presents the issues of sanitation in a jacketed configuration as follows: “I n a broader sense sanitation implies management operation and maintenance of human/social ecology involving greater hygiene and referring to scientifically derived peoples capability to achieve their primal physical biological psychological philosophical social and economic needs and entitlements. It involves the well-being of individuals through exclusion or neutralization of elements (social or physical) dysfunctional to them and their community. Good sanitation is a way of life and an effective tool for progress of ones mind body and surroundings in terms of health scientific temper secular behaviour in an acceptable affordable and sustainable way”. The present compilation modestly attempts to broaden the horizon of sanitation beyond physical and environmental cleanliness and hygiene. The social science academia needs to encompass sanitation discourse on diverse juxtaposed issues such as justice empowerment subaltern multiculturalism and social inclusion. This book is a critique and systematic documentation of the experiences and discourses of the sociology of sanitation across global world in general and South Asia in particular. Present stimulating inter disciplinary dialogue makes a more meaningful attempt towards theoretical orientation on the idea of sociology of sanitation. Appropriating a considerable reader on sociolog