Purity and Danger: An analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo

By C. Madge. 1967

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Evaluating the Social Impact of Generative AI Systems in Systems and Society (2023, background): “Given that the exclusion of harmful content within datasets stand to create distinct harms to marginalized communities, efforts towards mitigation of generating harmful content becomes a question of the politics of classification [36, 135, 72, 242] and its potential harms.”
Data Governance in the Age of Large-Scale Data-Driven Language Technology (2022, neutral): “Such politics of dirt [44] reveal attitudes”
Why sustainable transport policies will fail: EU climate policy in the light of transport taboos (2014, background): “As Douglas (1966) underlines, to touch a taboo creates disorder.”
Climate Change Risk Perception and Policy Preferences: The Role of Affect, Imagery, and Values (2006, background): “Originating in the work of anthropologist Mary Douglas (Douglas, 1966, 1970; Douglas et al., 1998; Douglas and Wildavsky, 1982), cultural theory focuses on how different individuals and groups interpret the world in different, yet patterned ways.”
Intersection of Disgust and Fear: Normative and Pathological Views (2006, background): “Other theorists have focused directly on the putative self-protective feature of disgust (Douglas, 1966; Tomkins, 1963) and on its connotation of debasement and corruption of purity (Angyal, 1941; Freud, 1926; Miller, 1997).”
Global Warming in the American Mind: The Roles of Affect, Imagery, and Worldviews in Risk Perception, Policy Preferences and Behavior (2003, background): “Originating in the work of anthropologist Mary Douglas (Douglas 1966; Douglas 1970; Douglas 1998; Douglas & Wildavsky 1982), cultural theory focuses on the social construction of meaning -- how different individuals and groups interpret the world in different, yet patterned ways.”
Culturally antagonistic memes and the Zika virus: an experimental test (2017, unknown): “It is also hazardous, socially, to form risk perceptions at odds with those of people with whom one shares close social ties: precisely because their perceptions of what’s virtuous and vicious are likely to be highly correlated with their perceptions of what’s beneficial and harmful, a person who fo”
Turning waste into value: using human urine to enrich soils for sustainable food production in Uganda (2015, background): “This is one example of the negotiation of norms that takes place in processes of reframing; what in one context is perceived as dirty waste requiring avoidance can in another be reframed as a productive resource (c.f. Douglas, 2002).”