In the realm of the senses [electronic resource] : social aesthetics and the sensory dynamics of privilege / Johannah Fahey, Howard Prosser, Matthew Shaw, editors.
Fahey, Johannah, editor.; Prosser, Howard, editor.; Shaw, Matthew, editor.
2015
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Title In the realm of the senses [electronic resource] : social aesthetics and the sensory dynamics of privilege / Johannah Fahey, Howard Prosser, Matthew Shaw, editors.
ISBN 9789812873507 electronic book
9812873503 electronic book
9789812873491
9789812873491
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-350-7
Published Singapore : Springer, [2015]
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Item Number 10.1007/978-981-287-350-7 doi
Call Number BH39
Dewey Decimal Classification 111/.85
100
Summary This book charts new territory both theoretically and methodologically. Drawing on MacDougall?s notion of social aesthetics, it explores the sensory dimensions of privilege through a global ethnography of elite schools. The various contributors to the volume draw on a range of theoretical perspectives from Lefebvre, Benjamin, Bourdieu, Appadurai, Kress and van Leeuwen to both broaden and critique MacDougall?s original concept. They argue that within these elite schools there is a relationship between their ?complex sensory and aesthetic environments? and the construction of privilege within and beyond the school gates. Understanding the importance of the visual to ethnography, the social aesthetics of these elite schools are captured through the inclusion of a series of visual essays that complement the written accounts of the aesthetics of privilege. The collection also includes a series of vignettes that further explore the sensory dimension of these aesthetics: touch, taste?though metaphorically understood? sight and sound. These varying formats illustrate the aesthetic nature of social relations and the various ways in which class permeates the senses. The images from across the different schools and their surroundings immerse the reader in these worlds and provide poignant ethnographic data of the forces of globalisation within the context of elite schooling.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Fahey, Johannah, editor.
Prosser, Howard, editor.
Shaw, Matthew, editor.
Series Cultural studies and transdisciplinarity in education.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Local Classes, Global Influences {u2014} Considerations on the Social Aesthetics of Elite Schools
Vignette: The Fullness of Taste
Distinguished Spaces: Elite schools as Cartographers of Privilege
VISUAL ESSAY: SPACE
The (semiotics of) Social Aesthetics in an Elite School in Singapore: An Ethnographic Study
VISUAL ESSAY: SEMIOTIC ECOLOGY
Vignette: Sound
Cultivating Students{u2019} Bodies: producing physical, poetic and sociopolitical subjectivities in elite schools
VISUAL ESSAY: BODIES
The Visual Field of Barbadian Elite Schooling: Towards Postcolonial Social Aesthetics
Vignette: Sight
Looking Inside and Out: Social Aesthetics of an Elite School in India
VISUAL ESSAY: HISTORIES
Vignette: The Touch of Class
Afterword.

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