Senses as Mobile Actants

Sketching Conceptual and Comparative Possibilities

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3758525
AutoresK E Y Low (0000-0002-4930-4035, National University of Singapore, autor de correspondencia), Noorman Abdullah (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Año2020
Volumen64
Número10
Páginas1430-1443
Fecha de publicación2020-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764220947781
OpenAlexW3080414753
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas21

The senses and their concomitant practices have historically and contemporaneously traversed borders and boundaries and in effect, acquire different meanings. Sensory modalities and ways of knowing become reconfigured as a result of cross-cultural sensory encounters in everyday life. Drawing from colonial and contemporary ethnographic encounters in Singapore, we make a case to extend sociocultural analyses of the character of the sensory-in particular, sound and smell-to consider its agentic potential to permeate and traverse boundaries. We employ the sensory as a lens to capture intimations of connectedness and disconnectedness; and to more broadly unravel alternative and comparative understandings of mobility and movement through time and space

Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Ethnography · Everyday life · Modalities · Sensory system · Social connectedness · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Stimulus modality · Anthropology · Communication · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Psychology · Social Psychology · Socioeconomic Development in Asia