Hsu, Hsuan L.
The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics
- ISBN 13:
- 9781479810093
- author:
- Hsu, Hsuan L.
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- New York University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2020
- Pages:
- 272
- Dimensions:
- 22.9 x 15.2 centimeters (0.42 kg
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Philosophy, Aesthetics,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics Our sense of smell is a uniquely personal and visceral experience, yet it has long been overlooked in Western aesthetics. Hsuan L. Hsu explores how smell can be a vital tool for sensing and staging environmental risk and inequality. By examining the ways in which writers, artists, and activists have used smell to critique and reshape modernity's uneven distribution of environmental risk, Hsu reveals the violence that air maintenance and control can enact on the poor and marginalized. From the industrial revolution to current-day environmental crises, Hsu uses ecocriticism, geography, and critical race studies to explore the impact of environmental disparities on different communities. This book takes a nuanced approach to understanding the complex relationships between smell, space, and social justice. With a wide range of examples, including nineteenth-century detective fiction, naturalist novels, and contemporary performance art, Hsu offers a compelling retelling of urbanization, public health, and environmental violence.
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