Senses in Cities

Kelvin E.Y. Low is Associate Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, emerita, is a Senior Researcher in the Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Israel.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsNotes about the contributorsSensory Urbanities: Excursions in the City (KELVIN E.Y. LOW AND DEVORAH KALEKIN-FISHMAN)PART I Sensory Inequalities1. Climatic Environmental Bubbles and Social Inequalities (ERIK COHEN)2. The Politics of Sensible Milieu: Sense, Deception and Charisma in Urban India (ROHAN KALYAN)3. Senses of Distinction: Social Differentiation, Metro-Mobility and Daily Life in Ho Chi Minh City (CATHERINE EARL)PART II: Sensing Urban Space through Movement4. Walking to the Beat: (Re)producing Locality through Walking Days (JULIA BENNETT)5. Hearing Sonic Textures: A Fountain’s Reciprocity with Sound, Embodied Spaces and Placemaking (ESTEFANIA ACOSTA AND GENEVIEVE DUVAL)6. The Senses of the Interactional Self in the Uses of Pershing Square, Los Angeles (NATHALIE BOUCHER)PART III Delineating Sensescapes and Boundaries7. Atmospheric Affinities: Olfactory Accounts of Aero-pollution between Smokers and Non-Smokers in Singapore (QIANHUI TAN)8. Hybrid Noise: Peacock Wars and Sonic Imaginations of Palos Verdes (NED WEIDNER)9. A Framework of Analysis for Urban Sensory Aesthetics: Looking at Sensescapes as ‘Brush Strokes’ of an Urban Canvas (ALEXANDRA GOMES)PART IV Sensing Diversity in Social Relations10. Sensory Disruptions in Creative City Planning (EMMA FELTON)11. Trucking in Tastes and Smells: Adelaide’s Street Food and the Politics of Urban ‘Vibrancy’ (JEAN DURUZ)12. Companion Species and a Multisensory Urbanism (HAMISH WIN)13. Music and Ideology: Political Uses of Soundscapes (DEVORAH KALEKIN-FISHMAN)Expanding the Scope of a Sociology of the Senses (DEVORAH KALEKIN-FISHMAN AND KELVIN E.Y. LOW)Index

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