Dion, Delphine; Sabri, Ouidade; Guillard, Valérie - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
Hanging up our coat, tidying our desk, classifying our books, what meanings do these mundane practices convey? Extending Mary Douglas’s work, this article investigates tidiness from the angle of symbolic pollution. Based on photo-elicitation, it shows that, similarly to symbolic pollution...