Beads, Bodies, and Trash - Public Sex, Global Labor, and the Disposability of Mardi Gras

Beads, Bodies, and Trash merges cultural sociology with a commodity chain analysis by following Mardi Gras beads to their origins. Beginning with Bourbon Street of New Orleans, this book moves to the grim factories in the tax-free economic zone of rural Fuzhou, China. Beads, Bodies, and Trash is a work of sensory ethnography appropriate for courses in gender and sexuality; qualitative or ethnographic research methods; deviance, crime, and social control; social movements; globalization; and Social Problems.

About the author

David Redmon, Ph.D. is a Lecturer in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent at Canterbury. He has produced, directed, edited and photographed Mardi Gras: Made in China (2005), Kamp Katrina (2007), Intimidad (2008), Invisible Girlfriend (2009), Girl Model (2011), Downeast (2012), Kingdom of Animal (2012), Night Labor (2013), and Choreography (2014). Redmon’s intimate and intricately crafted documentaries have premiered at Sundance, Toronto, and Viennale Film Festivals and have won a variety of awards. Redmon’s work has aired on PBS, POV, BBC, CBC, DR, ARTE, NHK, and other television stations throughout the world. Redmon received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University at Albany, State University of New York and is an alumni of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University and Harvard University’s Film Studies Center.

Product details

• Authors: David Redmon, David (University of Kent At Canterbury) Redmon, Redmon David
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2014
• EAN: 9780415525398
• ISBN: 978-0-415-52539-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Innovative Ethnographies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, Research methods: general