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The Smell of Risk - Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics (Hardcover)
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The Smell of Risk - Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics (Hardcover)
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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.
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