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Senses and citizenships : embodying political life / edited by Susanna Trnka, Christine Dureau, and Julie Park.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in anthropology ; 10.
- Routledge Studies in Anthropology ; 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Citizenship.
- Senses and sensation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (630 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What does disgust have to do with citizenship? How might pain and pleasure, movement, taste, sound and smell be configured as aspects of national belonging? Senses and Citizenships: Embodying Political Life examines the intersections between sensory phenomena and national and supra-national forms of belonging, introducing the new concept of sensory citizenship. Expanding upon contemporary understandings of the rights and duties of citizens, the volume presents anthropological investigations of the sensory aspects of participation in collectivities such as face-to-face communities,
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Senses and Citizenships; 2 Visibly Black: Phenotype and Cosmopolitan Aspirations on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands; 3 Blood, Toil, and Tears: Rhetorics of Pain and Suffering in African American and Indo-Fijian Citizenship Claims; 4 Movement in Time: Choreographies of Confinement in an Inpatient Ward; 5 Modern Citizens, Modern Food: Taste and the Rise of the Moroccan Citizen-Consumer; 6 Smelling the Difference: The Senses in Ethnic Conflict in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
- 7 Gender, Nationalism, and Sound: Outgrowing "Mother India"8 Embodied Perception and the Invention of the Citizen: Javanese Dance in the Indonesian State; 9 Off the Edge of Europe: Border Regimes, Visual Culture, and the Politics of Race; 10 Seeing Health like a Colonial State: Pacific Island Assistant Physicians, Sight, and Nascent Biomedical Citizenship in the New Hebrides; 11 Painful Exclusion: Hepatitis C in the New Zealand Hemophilia Community; 12 Sensory Nostalgia, Moral Sensibilities, and the Effort to Belong in Yap (Waqab), Federated States of Micronesia; 13 The Look: An Afterword
- ContributorsIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 25, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 1-136-69059-X
- 1-136-69052-2
- 0-203-37465-7
- 9780203374658
- OCLC:
- 843642641
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