BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//School of Public Policy and Global Affairs//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://sppga.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:School of Public Policy and Global Affairs - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20171020T1922Z-1508527347.1927-EO-23038-2671@10.93.0.115 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260416T224559Z CREATED:20171019T211433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181205T182546Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20171110T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20171110T143000 SUMMARY: How Green Was My Night Soil: Thinking with Excrement about Ninetee nth-Century Japan DESCRIPTION: Excrement was a hot commodity in the cities of nineteenth-cent ury Japan. The widespread use of night soil as an organic fertilizer meant that residents of cities such as Tokyo and Osaka could sell their waste rat her than simply dispose of it. Join Dr. David L. Howell as he discusses the night-soil economy in nineteenth-century Japan. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Abstract:

Excrement was a hot comm odity in the cities of nineteenth-century Japan. The widespread use of nigh t soil as an organic fertilizer meant that residents of cities such as Toky o and Osaka could sell their waste rather than simply dispose of it. Thanks to this trade\, pre–twentieth-century cities Japanese cities enjoy a reput ation as having been remarkably green spaces in which residents lived in sa lubrious harmony with nature. In this presentation\, I will argue that the night-soil economy offers a novel way to situate late Tokugawa and early Me iji Japan into the broader history of the nineteenth-century world\, while at the same time challenging the tendency to essentialize the “greenness” o f early modern Japanese cities.

Speaker:

Dr. David L. Howell (Harvard University)

Event Poster

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