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Hsuan Hsu takes an exceptionally imaginative approach to the relationship between aesthetics and environmental justice. The Smell of Risk contributes significantly to the field of environmental humanities by exploring what has been a largely overlooked aspect of how we construct our environments and structure our social interactions. Hsu demonstrates the co-construction of 'race' and 'environment' as discursive technologies of state power and shows, in particular, how olfaction delineates the notion of an environment and its relation to the unequal distribution of risk. This deeply engaging and insightful work will change the way readers approach their olfactory senses. --Priscilla Wald, author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative

"""Hsuan Hsu takes an exceptionally imaginative approach to the relationship between aesthetics and environmental justice. The Smell of Risk contributes significantly to the field of environmental humanities by exploring what has been a largely overlooked aspect of how we construct our environments and structure our social interactions. Hsu demonstrates the co-construction of ‘race’ and ‘environment’ as discursive technologies of state power and shows, in particular, how olfaction delineates the notion of an “environment” and its relation to the unequal distribution of risk. This deeply engaging and insightful work will change the way readers approach their olfactory senses."" * Priscilla Wald, author of <i>Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative</i> * ""Hsu invites, in fact, urges us to think of olfactory perception beyond individual sensory experience or the well-established mnemonics in larger frames of decolonization, emancipation, liberation, as well as environmental ‘slow violence.’ The Smell of Risk may just make perceivers think, perceive, and feel differently. Hsu’s study then is another significant step forward in the rapid evolution of the sense of smell as a critical tool of cultural analysis"" -- Hans J. Rindisbacher * American Literary History *"

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Hsuan L. Hsu is Professor of English at the University of California Davis and the author of Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization.

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