Book Review: <i>The Explanation of Social Action</i> by John Levi Martin

Shams, Safi

doi:10.1177/0048393115571910

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“…Indeed, were it not for such labour, we might wonder how it would racialised be possible for Martin himself to describe racialised social relations as ‘intrinsically distorted’. As Safi Shams points out (Shams, 2015), such a judgement is difficult to square with his more general position that social objects are ‘real as perceived’.…”

Section: Aesthetics and Racialisationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Everyday Aesthetics, Locality and Racialisation

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In this essay we reflect on the relationship between aesthetic practices and racialised conceptions of belonging. In particular, we explore attributions of beauty and ugliness, order and disorder, as these are made in relation to local space, and we consider how these attributions can be linked to proprietorial claims about who is welcome in those spaces. Our focus is thus on the everyday aesthetics of location: the ways in which aesthetic judgements are tied to the inhabitation of space and, in this case, the exclusionary potential of ‘ways of looking’ at such spaces and at the social relations which exist within them. Drawing on data from qualitative research in two adjoining neighbourhoods in Glasgow’s Southside, we make three analytical contributions. First, we consider the racialising potential of everyday aesthetic responses to local space. Second, we explore the ways in which local social relations themselves can be aesthetically interpreted. Third, we reflect on forms of everyday aesthetic resistance.

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Section: Aesthetics and Racialisationmentioning

confidence: 98%