Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Learning Cities pp 23–36Cite as

Coming to Our Senses: Multiculturalism, Urban Sociology and ‘the Other’ Senses

  • Chapter
  • First Online:

Part of the book series: Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education ((CSTE,volume 8))

Abstract

The sensuous aspects of everyday experience are often ignored by sociology in favour of abstract generalisations. While recent developments in visually sensitive urban sociology are to be welcomed, the full range of the senses remains to be explored. This chapter explores urban experience through the olfactory sense. Aromatic experiences arouse memories and meanings that unite as well as establish boundaries between social and cultural groups. This chapter presents a fragrant cultural sociology of a London market through the case of Dickson, a stallholder whose aromatic soaps are resonant of sensory histories.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD   39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD   54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD   54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Learn about institutional subscriptions

References

  • Back, L. (1996). New ethnicities and urban culture. London/New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Back, L., & Bull, M. (2003). The auditory culture reader. Oxford: Berg.

    Google Scholar 

  • Barthes, R. (1977). Image music text (S. Heath, Trans.). London: Fontana.

    Google Scholar 

  • Benhabib, S. (2002). The claims of culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Berendt, J.-E. (1992). The third ear: On listening to the world. New York: Henry Holt & Co..

    Google Scholar 

  • Bourdieu. P. (1984). Distinction: A social critique of the judgment of taste (R. Nice, Trans.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bull, M. (2000). Sounding out the city. Oxford: Berg.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bull, M., & Back, L. (2003). Introduction: Into sound. In M. Bull & L. Back (Eds.), The auditory culture reader (pp. 1–18). Oxford: Berg.

    Google Scholar 

  • Classen, C., Howes, D., & Synnott, A. (1994). Aroma. London/New York, NY: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cook, H. J. (2007). Matters of exchange. London: Yale University Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Certeau, M. de (1988). The practice of everyday life (M. S. Rendall, Trans.). Berkeley: University of California Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Deleuze, G. (2006). Foucault (Seán Hand, Trans.). London: Continuum International.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fish, S. E. (1999). The trouble with principle. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Foucault, M. (1977). Discipline and punish (A. Sheridan, Trans..). New York: Pantheon Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Foucault, M. (2003). The birth of the clinic (A. Sheridan, Trans..). London/New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gilroy, P. (1999). The black Atlantic. London: Verso.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gilroy, P. (2002). There ain’t no black in the Union Jack. London/New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hewitt, R. (1986). White talk black talk. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Howes, D. (2003). Sensual relations. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Jay, M. (1994). Downcast eyes. Berkeley: University of California Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kant, I. (2006). Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view (R. B. Louden, & M. Kuehn, Trans.). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Keith, M. (1993). Lore and disorder: Race riots and policing in a multi-racist society. London: UCL Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Knowles, C., & Sweetman, P. (2004). Picturing the social landscape. London/New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Latour, B. (2004). How to talk about the body. Body & Society, 10(2–3), 205–229.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lupton, D. (1996). Food, the body and the self. London: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Macklin, G. (2007). Very deeply dyed in black: Sir Oswald Mosley and the postwar reconstruction of British fascism. London: I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd..

    Google Scholar 

  • Pallasmaa, J. (2005). The eyes of the skin – Architecture and the senses. Chichester: Wiley.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pile, S. (1996). The body and the city. London/New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pink, S. (2009). Doing sensory ethnography. London: Sage.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Proust, M. (2001). The complete stories of Marcel Proust (J. Neugroschel, Trans.). New York: Cooper Square Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rhys-Taylor, A. (2007). The irrepressibility of Mangifera. Eurozine, 23 April. http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2007-04-23-rhystaylor-en.html.

  • Sennett, R. (1992). The conscience of the eye: The design and social life of cities. London: W. W. Norton & Co..

    Google Scholar 

  • Sennett, R. (1996). Flesh and stone: The body and the city in western civilization. London: W. W. Norton & Co..

    Google Scholar 

  • Serematakis, N. (Ed.). (1994). The senses still: Perception and memory as material culture in modernity. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Simmel, G., Frisby, D., & Featherstone, M. (1997). Simmel on culture. London: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Smith, M. M. (2006). How race is made. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stoller, P. (1997). Sensuous scholarship. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Susser, A. (2001). The great mango book. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sutton, D. E. (2001). Remembrance of repasts. Oxford: Berg.

    Book  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Goldsmith College, University of London, London, UK

    Alex Rhys-Taylor

Authors
  1. Alex Rhys-Taylor
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Alex Rhys-Taylor .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Education, University of South Australia, Magill, South Australia, Australia

    Sue Nichols

  2. School of Education, University of South Australia, Magill, South Australia, Australia

    Stephen Dobson

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2018 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Rhys-Taylor, A. (2018). Coming to Our Senses: Multiculturalism, Urban Sociology and ‘the Other’ Senses. In: Nichols, S., Dobson, S. (eds) Learning Cities. Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education, vol 8. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8100-2_3

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8100-2_3

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore

  • Print ISBN: 978-981-10-8098-2

  • Online ISBN: 978-981-10-8100-2

  • eBook Packages: EducationEducation (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation