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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Fahey, Johannah (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Prosser, Howard (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Shaw, Matthew (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Σειρά: Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education,
• Θέματα: Education.; Educational sociology.; Education > Philosophy.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Sociology of Education.; Educational Philosophy.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.