The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics

by Hsuan L Hsu and Hsuan L. Hsu

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479810096
• ISBN13: 9781479810093
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"