04183nam 22006255 450 991048359360332120240628135955.09789812873507ebook978981287349110.1007/978-981-287-350-7(CKB)3710000000394764(EBL)3109326(SSID)ssj0001501530(PQKBManifestationID)11848440(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001501530(PQKBWorkID)11440913(PQKB)11447091(DE-He213)978-981-287-350-7(MiAaPQ)EBC3109326(MiAaPQ)EBC6350812(PPN)185488021(EXLCZ)99371000000039476420150408d2015 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIn the Realm of the Senses Social Aesthetics and the Sensory Dynamics of Privilege /edited by Johannah Fahey, Howard Prosser, Matthew Shaw1st ed. 2015.Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :Imprint: Springer,2015.1 online resource (211 p.)Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education,2345-7716Description based upon print version of record.9789812873491 981287349X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 perspectives from Lefebvre, Benjamin, Bourdieu, Appadurai, Kress and van Leeuwen to both broaden and critique MacDougall’s original concept. They argue that within these elite schools there is a relationship between their ‘complex sensory and aesthetic environments’ and the construction of privilege within and beyond the school gates. Understanding the importance of the visual to ethnography, the social aesthetics of these elite schools  are captured through the inclusion of a series of visual essays that complement the written accounts of the aesthetics of privilege. The collection also includes a series of vignettes that further explore the sensory dimension of these aesthetics:  touch, taste—though metaphorically understood— sight and sound. These varying formats illustrate the aesthetic nature of social relations and the various ways in which class permeates the senses. The images from across the different schools and their surroundings immerse the reader in these worlds and provide poignant ethnographic data of the forces of globalisation within the context of elite schooling.Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education,2345-7716Motion picturesAsiaAsian Film and TVMotion picturesAsian Film and TV.111.85Fahey JohannahProsser HowardShaw Matthew John1974-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910483593603321In the realm of the senses2854787UNINA