Burning Tires, Sauerkraut and Dung: The (Classist) Boundaries of an Olfactory Landscape
Abstract
This chapter examines olfactory landscapes and othering practices reflected through the categorization of unpleasant smells in an urban environment, taking place in a middle-class socialist-era large housing estate in Belgrade. The data is drawn from two consecutive methodological steps: an online questionnaire and sensory walks conducted with residents of New Belgrade’s housing estate. Olfactory claims made by middle-class inhabitants of the researched housing estate are divided into three categories referring to a three- stage series of distinctions and othering practices: external Others, internal Others, and double Others. Looking at the intersection of class and race, the chapter argues that olfactory constructions play a significant role in the way collective identities are tacitly (re)produced and puts forward the idea that the production of “otherness” of lower social classes is interwoven with the fabric of the middle-class white body epitomizing civility, culture, modernity, ...and propriety.
Keywords:
olfactory landscape / sensory anthropology / urban poor / racialization / class distinctionSource:
Sensory Environmental Relationships: Between Memories of the Past and Imaginings of the Future, 08-2023, 155-173-Publisher:
- Vernon press
Funding / projects:
- Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund
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IFDTTY - CHAP AU - Nikolić, Sara PY - 2023-08 UR - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/2886 AB - This chapter examines olfactory landscapes and othering practices reflected through the categorization of unpleasant smells in an urban environment, taking place in a middle-class socialist-era large housing estate in Belgrade. The data is drawn from two consecutive methodological steps: an online questionnaire and sensory walks conducted with residents of New Belgrade’s housing estate. Olfactory claims made by middle-class inhabitants of the researched housing estate are divided into three categories referring to a three- stage series of distinctions and othering practices: external Others, internal Others, and double Others. Looking at the intersection of class and race, the chapter argues that olfactory constructions play a significant role in the way collective identities are tacitly (re)produced and puts forward the idea that the production of “otherness” of lower social classes is interwoven with the fabric of the middle-class white body epitomizing civility, culture, modernity, and propriety. PB - Vernon press T2 - Sensory Environmental Relationships: Between Memories of the Past and Imaginings of the Future T1 - Burning Tires, Sauerkraut and Dung: The (Classist) Boundaries of an Olfactory Landscape SP - 155-173 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2886 ER -
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Nikolić, S.. (2023-08). Burning Tires, Sauerkraut and Dung: The (Classist) Boundaries of an Olfactory Landscape. in Sensory Environmental Relationships: Between Memories of the Past and Imaginings of the Future Vernon press., 155-173. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2886
Nikolić S. Burning Tires, Sauerkraut and Dung: The (Classist) Boundaries of an Olfactory Landscape. in Sensory Environmental Relationships: Between Memories of the Past and Imaginings of the Future. 2023;:155-173. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2886 .
Nikolić, Sara, "Burning Tires, Sauerkraut and Dung: The (Classist) Boundaries of an Olfactory Landscape" in Sensory Environmental Relationships: Between Memories of the Past and Imaginings of the Future (2023-08):155-173, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2886 .