Scent-orship and Scent-iments on the Scent-ual

The Relational Geographies of Smoke/Smell between Smokers and Non-Smokers in Singapore

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5086740
AutoresQian Hui Tan (0009-0000-6126-1253, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume11
Fascículo2
Páginas177-198
Data de publicação2016-05-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Senses and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1745-8927 • E-ISSN: 1745-8935
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17458927.2016.1190069
OpenAlexW2462997106
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas60

Building on nascent conceptualizations of a sensory citizenship, I hope to extend the existing scholarship by bringing tobacco research into a productive conversation with emerging debates in sensory studies. Given that the senses mediate mundane social exchanges – I explore how the pungent stench of smoke that lingers on smoking bodies disrupts normative social scripts of being a neutral smelling, civic-minded individual – thus potentially rendering the smoker out of place in many non-smoking public places. By employing qualitative research methods, I investigate how olfactory similarity and difference can have repercussions on how smokers and non-smokers' negotiate their citizenship subjectivities. In this regard, I argue that such divisions of difference that run along sensory lines have become a means of sorting out undesirable citizens from desirable ones as well as those that belong to the broader geo-body of the nation and those who do not

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