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Olfactory Worldmaking
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Olfactory Worldmaking

Hsuan L. Hsu
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Exploring the power of smell to build connections and transform our world

Smell is a vital, if underappreciated, medium through which we inhabit and imagine the world. In Olfactory Worldmaking, Hsuan L. Hsu traces how olfactory experience communicates across visceral, material, and affective registers to offer new ways of relating, which challenge the extractive logics of racial and colonial capitalism. Blending environmental humanities, sensory studies, and critical ethnic studies, the book highlights how scent animates suppressed histories and marginalized memories.

Hsu theorizes olfaction as a speculative, reparative practice. Examining projects from historical novels, memoirs, and speculative fiction to conceptual art and experimental perfumes, he reveals how these works mobilize scent to imagine alternative ways of sensing, relating, and creating more equitably livable worlds.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Country
United States
Date
1 July 2026
Pages
134
ISBN
9781517921231

Exploring the power of smell to build connections and transform our world

Smell is a vital, if underappreciated, medium through which we inhabit and imagine the world. In Olfactory Worldmaking, Hsuan L. Hsu traces how olfactory experience communicates across visceral, material, and affective registers to offer new ways of relating, which challenge the extractive logics of racial and colonial capitalism. Blending environmental humanities, sensory studies, and critical ethnic studies, the book highlights how scent animates suppressed histories and marginalized memories.

Hsu theorizes olfaction as a speculative, reparative practice. Examining projects from historical novels, memoirs, and speculative fiction to conceptual art and experimental perfumes, he reveals how these works mobilize scent to imagine alternative ways of sensing, relating, and creating more equitably livable worlds.

Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Country
United States
Date
1 July 2026
Pages
134
ISBN
9781517921231

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