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Title Senses and citizenships : embodying political life / edited by Susanna Trnka, Christine Dureau, Julie Park
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (630 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Anthropology ; 10
Routledge studies in anthropology ; 10.
Contents Introduction: Senses and Citizenships / Susanna Trnka, Christine Dureau, and Julie Park -- Visibly Black: Phenotype and Cosmopolitan Aspirations on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands / Christine Dureau -- Blood, Toil, and Tears: Rhetorics of Pain and Suffering in African American and Indo-Fijian Citizenship Claims / Susanna Trnka -- Movement in Time: Choreographies of Confinement in an In-Patient Ward / Sarah Pinto -- Modern Citizens, Modern Food: Taste and the Rise of the Moroccan Citizen-Consumer / Rachel Newcomb -- Smelling the Difference: The Senses in Ethnic Conflict in West Kalimantan, Indonesia / Anika König -- Gender, Nationalism, and Sound: Outgrowing "Mother India" / Gregory D. Booth -- Embodied Perception and the Invention of the Citizen: Javanese Dance in the Indonesian State / Felicia Hughes-Freeland -- Off the Edge of Europe: Border Regimes, Visual Culture, and the Politics of Race / Uli Linke -- Seeing Health like a Colonial State: Pacific Island Assistant Physicians, Sight, and Nascent Biomedical Citizenship in the New Hebrides / Alexandra Widmer -- Painful Exclusion: Hepatitis C in the New Zealand Hemophilia Community / Julie Park -- Sensory Nostalgia, Moral Sensibilities, and the Effort to Belong in Yap (Waqab), Federated States of Micronesia / C. Jason Throop -- The Look: An Afterword / Robert Desjarlais
Summary 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,
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Citizenship.
Senses and sensation.
senses.
sensation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Citizenship
Senses and sensation
Form Electronic book
Author Trnka, Susanna.
Dureau, Christine.
Park, Julie, 1947-
ISBN 9781136690525
1136690522