Tangible Inquiries: A Study of Aroma Materials and Sources in the Built and Botanical Environments in Grasse, France

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dc.contributor.advisorNolan, Jason
dc.creatorMcBride, Melanie Chandra
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-28T12:43:17Z
dc.date.available2018-05-28T12:43:17Z
dc.date.copyright2017-09-08
dc.date.issued2018-05-28
dc.date.updated2018-05-28T12:43:17Z
dc.degree.disciplineCommunication & Culture, Joint Program with Ryerson University
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractIn the humanities, arts and social sciences smell is often framed as a mode of invisible information, independent of observable and tangible sources of odours, or the structural, embodied and ecological contingencies that afford the activity of their engagement or perception. This framing not only serves to reinforce our already ocularcentric sensory order (Howes, 2005a), but also reinforces the visual biases of contemporary communication and information cultures. This dissertation argues that smell, along with many other sensory phenomena, is further abstracted by predominantly neuro- and logo-centric epistemologies that privilege acquired representational knowledges over more directly experiential, corporeal and self- directed ways knowing. Building on preliminary fieldwork in Ontario and France, this site specific and source centric study investigates the selection, exploration and uses of botanical and synthetic aroma sources and materials as multimodal resources in the contexts of cultural mediation, scent-themed interaction and ecologically situated inquiries within the built and botanical environments of the worlds perfumery capital, Grasse, France. This grounded study draws on methods of sensory ethnography, multimodal analysis and my own tangible inquiry to examine the ecological, sociocultural and structural contingencies that afford directly experiential encounters with aroma. This research has implications for Canada's increasingly scent-free, and sensorially anaesthetic, learning environments, which continue to privilege visually-biased, mind-over-matter modes of learning, knowing, and communicating.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/34467
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectPedagogy
dc.subject.keywordsAroma
dc.subject.keywordsSmell
dc.subject.keywordsMultimodality
dc.subject.keywordsMultiliteracies
dc.subject.keywordsSensory culture
dc.subject.keywordsCommunication
dc.subject.keywordsEcology
dc.subject.keywordsInformal learning
dc.subject.keywordsLiteracy
dc.subject.keywordsEducation
dc.subject.keywordsCritical pedagogy
dc.titleTangible Inquiries: A Study of Aroma Materials and Sources in the Built and Botanical Environments in Grasse, France
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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