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Highlighting elephant’s perspective through umwelt exploration: textual analysis of the novella River Storm 在自然探索中突出大象的视角:中篇小说《河流风暴》的文本分析

The senses and society Pub Date : 2023-05-16 DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2023.2210034

Moumita Bala, Smriti Singh

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Touching imaginaries: otherwise worlds and speculative techno-touch in Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi 感人的想象:在Wanuri Kahiu的《Pumzi》中，不同的世界和投机的技术触觉

The senses and society Pub Date : 2023-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2023.2210035

Maya Caspari

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Cloud Walkers 云步行者

The senses and society Pub Date : 2023-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2023.2213081

Sin Tung Ng

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Christina Battle, the air we breathe Christina Battle，我们呼吸的空气

The senses and society Pub Date : 2023-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2023.2213082

M. Collins

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Odor: Immaterial Sculptures 气味:非物质雕塑

The senses and society Pub Date : 2023-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2023.2213083

Anne Röhl

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Touching to connect, explore, and explain: how the human brain makes social touch meaningful 触摸连接，探索和解释:人类大脑如何使社交接触有意义

The senses and society Pub Date : 2023-05-03 DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2023.2200065

I. Morrison

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Car driving as inverted quarantine and the sensory response to collective threats: challenges for public transport 汽车驾驶作为反向隔离和对集体威胁的感官反应:公共交通的挑战

The senses and society Pub Date : 2023-04-13 DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2023.2197684

M. Gross

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Is revitalizing culture a beautiful dream? Objects, archives, and images of indigenous Taiwan in Hu Tai-Li’s documentary Returning Souls (2012) 振兴文化是一个美好的梦想吗?胡泰立纪录片《还魂》(2012)中的物品、档案与台湾原住民影像

The senses and society Pub Date : 2023-04-04 DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2023.2197313

H. Wu

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Infrastructure and deaf futurism 基础设施和聋人未来主义

The senses and society Pub Date : 2023-03-24 DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2023.2192105

Sabrina Ward-Kimola

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Cold colonialism and sensory infrastructures 冷殖民主义和感官基础设施

The senses and society Pub Date : 2023-03-19 DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2023.2190699

Hsuan L. Hsu

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