The intimate public : understanding the intersection of public goals and private actions through household sanitation adoption in rural India
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Globally, 60% of households without access to sanitation facilities are located in India, and the majority of Indians without sanitation live in rural areas. In this dissertation, I introduce the concept of the intimate public to analyze the constellation of social forces that shape rural Indians' decisions to install household sanitation facilities. This concept uses a place-specific lens to examine social interactions. Considering the social roles within the intimate public, I investigate how social influence varies across the types of relationships that constitute the intimate public. Although households' investments in this amenity have implications for public health outcomes, I find that families' personal efforts to find dignity and belonging within their intimate public, which may not align with the individuals that are impacted by one another's sanitation practices, guide this decision. Certain intimate publics even foster resistance to this public health project. This theoretical concept allows scholars to analyze how physical and social spaces shape social processes in distinct ways. These empirical results make a timely contribution to global health and national policy efforts that seek to improve health by increasing household sanitation adoption across rural India.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Lunn, Anna |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Granovetter, Mark S |
| Thesis advisor | Granovetter, Mark S |
| Thesis advisor | Parigi, Paolo, 1973- |
| Thesis advisor | Thiranagama, Sharika |
| Degree committee member | Parigi, Paolo, 1973- |
| Degree committee member | Thiranagama, Sharika |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Anna Lunn. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Anna Lunn
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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