The Smell of Risk : : Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics / / Hsuan L. Hsu.
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....
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 13 b/w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Deodorization and Its Discontents
- 1. “Every Crime Has Its Peculiar Odor”: Detection, Deodorization, and Intoxication
- 2. Naturalist Smellscapes and Environmental Justice
- 3. Olfactory Art and Museum Ecologies
- 4. Atmo- Orientalism: Olfactory Racialization and Environmental Health
- 5. Decolonizing Smell
- Epilogue: Reshaping Olfactory Ecologies
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author