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This book examines how qualities of place and their sensuous reorganisation elucidate particular sociocultural expressions and practices in urban life. The collection illuminates how urban environments are distinguished, valued, or reconfigured with the senses as media for evaluating authentic spaces and places that endure and change over time.
List of contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Notes about the contributors
Sensory Urbanities: Excursions in the City (KELVIN E.Y. LOW AND DEVORAH KALEKIN-FISHMAN)
PART I Sensory Inequalities
1. Climatic Environmental Bubbles and Social Inequalities (ERIK COHEN)
2. The Politics of Sensible Milieu: Sense, Deception and Charisma in Urban India (ROHAN KALYAN)
3. Senses of Distinction: Social Differentiation, Metro-Mobility and Daily Life in Ho Chi Minh City (CATHERINE EARL)
PART II: Sensing Urban Space through Movement4. Walking to the Beat: (Re)producing Locality through Walking Days (JULIA BENNETT)
5. Hearing Sonic Textures: A Fountain’s Reciprocity with Sound, Embodied Spaces and Placemaking (ESTEFANIA ACOSTA AND GENEVIEVE DUVAL)
6. The Senses of the Interactional Self in the Uses of Pershing Square, Los Angeles (NATHALIE BOUCHER)
PART III Delineating Sensescapes and Boundaries
7. Atmospheric Affinities: Olfactory Accounts of Aero-pollution between Smokers and Non-Smokers in Singapore (QIANHUI TAN)
8. Hybrid Noise: Peacock Wars and Sonic Imaginations of Palos Verdes (NED WEIDNER)
9. A Framework of Analysis for Urban Sensory Aesthetics: Looking at Sensescapes as ‘Brush Strokes’ of an Urban Canvas (ALEXANDRA GOMES)
PART IV Sensing Diversity in Social Relations
10. Sensory Disruptions in Creative City Planning (EMMA FELTON)
11. Trucking in Tastes and Smells: Adelaide’s Street Food and the Politics of Urban ‘Vibrancy’ (JEAN DURUZ)
12. Companion Species and a Multisensory Urbanism (HAMISH WIN)
13. Music and Ideology: Political Uses of Soundscapes (DEVORAH KALEKIN-FISHMAN)
Expanding the Scope of a Sociology of the Senses (DEVORAH KALEKIN-FISHMAN AND KELVIN E.Y. LOW)
Index
About the author
Kelvin E.Y. Low is Associate Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.
Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, emerita, is a Senior Researcher in the Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Israel.
Summary
This book examines how qualities of place and their sensuous reorganisation elucidate particular sociocultural expressions and practices in urban life. The collection illuminates how urban environments are distinguished, valued, or reconfigured with the senses as media for evaluating authentic spaces and places that endure and change over time.
