The smell of risk : environmental disparities and olfactory aesthetics / Hsuan L. Hsu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hsu, Hsuan L., 1976- author.

Series:

NYU scholarship online.

NYU scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Odors--History--Social aspects.

Odors.

Deodorization--History.

Deodorization.

Environmental health--History.

Environmental health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 13 b/w illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-0537-8

OCLC:

1229161261