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Burning Tires, Sauerkraut and Dung: The (Classist) Boundaries of an Olfactory Landscape

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2023
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Nikolić, Sara
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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 distinction
Source:
Sensory Environmental Relationships: Between Memories of the Past and Imaginings of the Future, 08-2023, 155-173-
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  • Vernon press
Funding / projects:
  • Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund

ISBN: 978-1-64889-693-4

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https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2886
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author = "Nikolić, Sara",
year = "2023-08",
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.",
publisher = "Vernon press",
journal = "Sensory Environmental Relationships: Between Memories of the Past and Imaginings of the Future",
booktitle = "Burning Tires, Sauerkraut and Dung: The (Classist) Boundaries of an Olfactory Landscape",
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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 .

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