Senses and Citizenships

What does disgust have to do with citizenship? How might pain, movement, taste, or sound be aspects of national belonging? This book examines relationships between the senses and political life. Introducing the concept of sensory citizenship, the authors demonstrate how fundamental aspects of citizenship rest upon our senses and their perceived naturalization.

1. Introduction: Senses and Citizenships Susanna Trnka, Christine Dureau, and Julie Park 2. Visibly Black: Phenotype and Cosmopolitan Aspirations on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands Christine Dureau 3. Blood, Toil, and Tears: Rhetorics of Pain and Suffering in African American and Indo-Fijian Citizenship Claims Susanna Trnka 4. Movement in Time: Choreographies of Confinement in an In-Patient Ward Sarah Pinto 5. Modern Citizens, Modern Food: Taste and the Rise of the Moroccan Citizen-Consumer Rachel Newcomb 6. Smelling the Difference: The Senses in Ethnic Conflict in West Kalimantan, Indonesia Anika König 7. Gender, Nationalism, and Sound: Outgrowing "Mother India" Gregory D. Booth 8. Embodied Perception and the Invention of the Citizen: Javanese Dance in the Indonesian State Felicia Hughes-Freeland 9. Off the Edge of Europe: Border Regimes, Visual Culture, and the Politics of Race Uli Linke 10. Seeing Health like a Colonial State: Pacific Island Assistant Physicians, Sight, and Nascent Biomedical Citizenship in the New Hebrides Alexandra Widmer 11. Painful Exclusion: Hepatitis C in the New Zealand Hemophilia Community Julie Park 12. Sensory Nostalgia, Moral Sensibilities, and the Effort to Belong in Yap (Waqab), Federated States of Micronesia C. Jason Throop 13. The Look: An Afterword Robert Desjarlais