Senses and citizenships : embodying political life / edited by Susanna Trnka, Christine Dureau and Julie Park. - vi, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Routledge studies in anthropology ; 10 . - Routledge studies in anthropology ; 10. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: senses and citizenships / Visibly black: phenotype and cosmopolitan aspirations on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands / Blood, toil and tears: rhetorics of pain and suffering in African American and Indo-Fijian citizenship claims / Movement in time: choreographies of confinement in an in-patient ward / Modern citizens, modern food: taste and the rise of the moroccan citizen-consumer / Smelling the difference: the senses in ethnic conflict in West Kalimantan, Indonesia / Gender, nationalism and sound: outgrowing "Mother India" / Embodied perception and the invention of the citizen: javanese dance in the Indonesian State / Off the edge of europe: border regimes, visual culture and the politics of race / Seeing health like a colonial state: pacific island assistant physicians, sight and nascent biomedical citizenship in the New Hebrides / Painful exclusion: Hepatitis C in the New Zealand hemophilia community / Sensory nostalgia, moral sensibilities and the effort to belong in Yap (Waqab), Federated States of Micronesia / The look: an afterword / Susanna Trnka, Christine Dureau and Julie Park -- Christine Dureau -- Susanna Trnka -- Sarah Pinto -- Rachel Newcomb -- Anika König -- Gregory D. Booth -- Felicia Hughes-Freeland -- Uli Linke -- Alexandra Widmer -- Julie Park -- C. Jason Throop -- Robert Desjarlais.

"What does disgust have to do with citizenship? How might pain and pleasure, movement, taste, sound and smell be configured as aspects of national belonging? Senses and Citizenships: Embodying Political Life examines the intersections between sensory phenomena and national and supra-national forms of belonging, introducing the new concept of sensory citizenship. Expanding upon contemporary understandings of the rights and duties of citizens, the volume presents anthropological investigations of the sensory aspects of participation in collectivities such as face-to-face communities, ethnic groups, nations and transnational entities. Rethinking relationships between ideology, aesthetics, affect and bodily experience, the authors reveal the multiple political effects of the senses. The book demonstrates how various elements of political life, including some of the most fundamental aspects of citizenship, rest not only upon our senses, but on their perceived naturalization. Vivid ethnographic examples of sensory citizenship in Europe, the United States, the Pacific, Asia and the Middle East explore themes such as sight in political constructions; smell and ethnic conflict; pain in the constitution of communities; national soundscapes; taste in national identities; movement, memory and emplacement." -- Publisher's website.

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Citizenship.
Senses and sensation.

JF801 / .S4515 2013

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