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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fahey, Johannah (Editor), Prosser, Howard (Editor), Shaw, Matthew (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.; 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...

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.