Publications of Michael D. Dimpfl    :chronological  alphabetical  combined listing:

%% Journal Articles   
@article{fds330012,
   Author = {Dimpfl, M},
   Title = {Micro(bial) management: everyday cleanliness and the
             divisive power of hygienic worries},
   Journal = {cultural geographies},
   Volume = {25},
   Number = {1},
   Pages = {201-216},
   Publisher = {SAGE Publications},
   Year = {2018},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474474017724478},
   Abstract = {<jats:p> At a major research institution in the American
             South, cleanliness norms are intensifying for students,
             housekeepers, and institutional administrators. Whether
             individual practice, waged labor, or institutional policy
             concern, daily hygiene routines often refer to invisible or
             otherwise absent threats to health. Broadly construed as
             ‘germs’, these include flu, norovirus, and Escherichia
             coli, as well as dirt, dust mites, allergens, and mold.
             Their mobilization influences students’ and
             housekeepers’ interpersonal relations in a range of common
             university spaces, revealing connections among disease,
             embodiment, risk, and care. At the same time, concern with
             germs aligns with institutional efforts to control a
             historically powerful cadre of workers. Connections between
             students’ experiences of health and disease risk and
             housekeeper and institutional orientation to those risks are
             obscure, although fundamentally constitutive of each other.
             Analysis of their different, but intersecting ideas about
             microbial hygienic risk draws together critical geographies
             of social reproductive labor, cultural geographies of
             more-than-human agency, and a recent call to elaborate a
             political ecology of health. Ethnographic and archival data
             reveal how germs retrench institutional disparities, placing
             the (re)production of student cleanliness practices and the
             working lives of housekeepers in tension. For students,
             germs help shore up valorized subject positions, informing
             regimes of self-care. For department administrators, a new
             employee management regime made the potential of microbial
             threats to student health a scientific instrument of labor
             control. For housekeepers, germs are particularly evocative
             of the demand to care for student health by managing
             exposure to microbial disease risk. Exploring different
             mobilizations of germs reveals the importance of
             more-than-human life to systems of and divisions between
             social reproductive labor regimes on campus.
             </jats:p>},
   Doi = {10.1177/1474474017724478},
   Key = {fds330012}
}