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... builds on the findings of cultural and social history scholars and the literature on the remaking of the categories of race and ethnicity in 1930s United States. Yet, my analysis is also informed by the field of sensory history and Mark Smith's remark that studying the senses as social constructs...

... means for mapping these shifts while also creating a platform that invites further research collaboration and facilitates sensory analysis. © 2015 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2015 intervention Sex and the Sacred Negotiating Spatial and Sensory Boundaries...

... to document the violence of US empire and trace the everyday attachments that sustain it. Taken together, these texts diagnose twenty-first-century America, catalogue and historicize the exceptionalism that rationalizes state violence, and detail the sensory and affective lives of those who wage war and those...

...Hillary Miller Elastic City, an organization that gives sensory, conceptual walks through New York City, explores embodied approaches to accessing urban archives. Todd Shalom, the artistic director of the organization, invites artists to create walks that emphasize engagement with the city space...

... of ocularcentricism found in much art history and visual culture studies, there has been an outpouring of work on urbanism and the senses, much of it owing to the pioneering work of Alain Corbin’s classic The Foul and the Fragrant.11 As a result, other sensorial configurations — the olfactory, for instance...

... involves aesthetic as well as, or instead of, moral values. The quality of food has become increasingly central to the emerging definition of good food. The emerging notion of quality is still vague, but increasingly most often involves a connection between sensory tastes, moral values...

..., Territory, Sound Mapudungun articulates — within its own name — a symbolic and sensorial rela- tionship between nature, territory, and sound. Mapu can signify “land,” “territory,” “space,” “environment,” or “universe,” and dungun also contains various meanings: “tongue,” “language,” “voice,” “sound...

... the inner-­ city streets of New Haven, without a predetermined destination or route. Students reflect on their sensorial experiences and encounters as they unsettle assumptions about urban design and everyday life. Next, in an oral history, theater graduate student Hillary Miller interviews...

.... It was an ambiguous mood, however, a space where the visual and sensory stimuli may have been individually familiar but together created an unknowable, almost surreal setting. The outer walls of the museum space were left untouched, a decision to communicate the exhibition structure as independent, even alien from...

... management adaptivit y optimization eugenics for race hygiene sexual investment strategies for genetic profit nervous system for integration sensory channels and processing centers...

... the real experience of racial boundary crossing into social and cultural segregation. Extending our understand­ Bender and Pilcher | Editors’ Introduction  5 ings of taste and of the relationship of food to nationalism, she introduces the notion of a “sensory...

... of sound, silence, and hearing has generated new questions in the emerging academic field of “sound studies.” Sound studies, as part of a larger historical and anthropological reevaluation of the sensory, has expanded in recent decades as a method for understanding historical actors’ and groups...

.... Including practices as varied as brainwashing, the use of snitches and rumors, pornography, sensory deprivation, arbitrary beatings and sanctions, and complete physical, emotional, and intellectual isolation, prison authorities implemented such techniques to control, dehumanize, coerce and, as one...

... Eats’: Food and Taste in the New Deal Sensory Economy,” considers the sense of taste as a cultural production that reflects the evolving definition and geography of race, region, and nation in the interwar United States. Her previous work at the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne...

... was mapped onto the field of sensory experience — not in terms of the ideo- logical struggle between East and West, but rather within the West, where control over the sonic environment presented new kinds of problems that were as personal as they were political. Clashes over sonic booms reveal...

..., particularly in the multiracial-­yet-­segregated post – World War II metropolis.8 However, such intensive critiques of the dominant culture’s archival traces have also inadvertently allowed white-­authored conceptions of “noise” to remain the debate’s center, privileging white sensory orientations...

... States in the world. Her work draws on feminist science and technology studies, food studies, sensory studies, and postcolonial studies. Her book project is titled, “Delicious: A History of Monosodium Glutamate and Umami, the Fifth Taste Sensation,” and it traces the politics and science behind...

... for visualization as the sensory mode most appropriate to the emergent globalization. For while the body stubbornly refused to be in more than one place at once, a networked visuality allowed us a measure of real-time global experience. In this view, such shifts as that from code-based computing to a visual...

..., shock mistreat- ment, and sensory deprivation. These experiments were designed to control large numbers of people; without corporal punishment or the use of hallucinogens, public relations fi rms do a very similar job, primarily by manipulating media. PR...

..., followed by BKA officials’ construction of special facilities for these prisoners, which permitted their “torture,” as the incarcerated perceived it, through isolation, total sensory deprivation, and other means.31 These conditions, as well as fear of the BKA’s...