Hsu Hsuan L. The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics 9781479810093

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Автор: Hsu Hsuan L.
Название: The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics
ISBN: 9781479810093
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Социальная история и история культуры

Философия: Логика

Этнические исследования

Исследования азиатских и африканских этнических групп

Социальная и культурная антропология, этнография

ISBN-10: 1479810096
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 272
Вес: 0.41 кг.
Дата издания: 15.12.2020
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 13 b/w illustrations
Размер: 22.91 x 15.19 x 2.72 cm
Ключевые слова: Ethnic studies,Philosophy: aesthetics,Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography,Social & cultural history, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies
Подзаголовок: Environmental disparities and olfactory aesthetics
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Поставляется из: Англии
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A timely exploration of how odor seeps into structural inequality
Our sense of smell is a uniquely visceral—and personal—form of experience. As Hsuan L. Hsu points out, smell has long been spurned by Western aesthetics as a lesser sense for its qualities of subjectivity, volatility, and materiality. But it is these very qualities that make olfaction a vital tool for sensing and staging environmental risk and inequality. Unlike the other senses, smell extends across space and reaches into our bodies. Hsu traces how writers, artists, and activists have deployed these embodied, biochemical qualities of smell in their efforts to critique and reshape modernity’s olfactory disparities.
The Smell of Risk outlines the many ways that our differentiated atmospheres unevenly distribute environmental risk. Reading everything from nineteenth-century detective fiction and naturalist novels to contemporary performance art and memoir, Hsu takes up modernity’s differentiated atmospheres as a subject worth sniffing out. From the industrial revolution to current-day environmental crises, Hsu uses ecocriticism, geography, and critical race studies to, for example, explore Latinx communities exposed to freeway exhaust and pesticides, Asian diasporic artists’ response to racialized discourse about Asiatic odors, and the devastation settler colonialism has reaped on Indigenous smellscapes. In each instance, Hsu demonstrates the violence that air maintenance, control, and conditioning enacts on the poor and the marginalized. From nineteenth-century miasma theory theory to the synthetic chemicals that pervade twenty-first century air, Hsu takes smell at face value to offer an evocative retelling of urbanization, public health, and environmental violence.

The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics, Hsu Hsuan L.