In the Realm of the Senses : Social Aesthetics and the Sensory Dynamics of Privilege

In the Realm of the Senses : Social Aesthetics and the Sensory Dynamics of Privilege /

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 perspectiv...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fahey, Johannah (Editor), Prosser, Howard (Editor), Shaw, Matthew, 1974- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Series:Cultural studies and transdisciplinarity in education.
Subjects:
Education.
Educational sociology.
Education > Philosophy.
Sociology of Education.
Educational Philosophy.
Online Access:Connect to this title online
Table of Contents:
  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Local Classes, Global Influences — 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’ 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.

Similar Items