Olfactory Worldmaking
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In Olfactory Worldmaking, Hsuan L. Hsu examines how scent operates as a speculative and reparative medium that animates suppressed histories and marginalized memories.
Blending environmental humanities, sensory studies, and critical ethnic studies, the book analyzes literature, art, and experimental perfumes to show how olfaction creates embodied connections across space, time, and species.
Hsu foregrounds works by Black, Indigenous, and writers and artists of color to argue that smell can contest extractive and deodorizing logics of racial and colonial capitalism.
The book reframes atmospheric justice as involving not only toxicity remediation but also the redistribution of memory, care, and olfactory relations.
Through close readings and interdisciplinary frameworks, Hsu proposes smell as a tool for imagining and materializing more livable, just worlds.
Blending environmental humanities, sensory studies, and critical ethnic studies, the book analyzes literature, art, and experimental perfumes to show how olfaction creates embodied connections across space, time, and species.
Hsu foregrounds works by Black, Indigenous, and writers and artists of color to argue that smell can contest extractive and deodorizing logics of racial and colonial capitalism.
The book reframes atmospheric justice as involving not only toxicity remediation but also the redistribution of memory, care, and olfactory relations.
Through close readings and interdisciplinary frameworks, Hsu proposes smell as a tool for imagining and materializing more livable, just worlds.
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Hsuan L Hsu, "Olfactory Worldmaking" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
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