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This edited volume of essays outlines the ways in which elite schools around the globe sustain their privileged status in part through the creation of specific social aesthetics, understood as a range of culturally patterned sensory experiences . The authors argue that within elite schools there is a relationship between their complex sensory and aesthetic environments and the construction of privilege within and beyond the school gates. This book is a transdisciplinary collection that speaks across the disciplines, and uses numerous theoretical sources, and empirical data to develop and problematise Macdougall s seminal work on social aesthetics. In doing so it brings together critical discussions of new empirical research and allies them to established theory to develop new theoretical knowledge around the concept of social aesthetics. It scrutinises the aesthetic nature of social relations in elite schools in terms of a broader context, including the context of globalisation.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: In the Realm of the Senses
• Subtitle: Social Aesthetics and the Sensory Dynamics of Privilege
• Author: Johannah Fahey, Howard Prosser, Matthew Shaw
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 211
• EAN: 9789812873491
• ISBN: 981287349X
• ID: 09075647
• Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore
• Weight: 4616 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. April 2015

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