Andreea Racleș has a background in social anthropology and is currently a lecturer and member of academic staff at the Institute for Sociology at Justus-Liebig University Giessen in Germany. She was awarded the Herbert-Stolzenberg-Prize for Excellent Dissertation Projects in the Study of Culture (2019).

“It is a significant and original contribution to the sociological and anthropological literature on belonging: the spaces, places, objects, practices and smells that make up and ground such material… all enriched by the Romanian fieldwork data.” • Colin Clark, University of the West of Scotland

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: MATERIALITIES OF BELONGINGChapter 1. Ethics and AttemptsChapter 2. Aesthetic PresencesChapter 3. Modernising AbsencesChapter 4. Home TexturesChapter 5. Tastes of HomePART II: SENSES OF (NON-)BELONGINGChapter 6. Olfactory Politics and Everyday RacismChapter 7. De-Constructions of ‘Olfactory Alterities’Chapter 8. Writing SmellsChapter 9. Manufacturing SmellsConclusion: Sensing (Non-)BelongingReferencesIndex

Andreea Racleș has a background in social anthropology and is currently a lecturer and member of academic staff at the Institute for Sociology at Justus-Liebig University Giessen in Germany. She was awarded the Herbert-Stolzenberg-Prize for Excellent Dissertation Projects in the Study of Culture (2019).

“It is a significant and original contribution to the sociological and anthropological literature on belonging: the spaces, places, objects, practices and smells that make up and ground such material… all enriched by the Romanian fieldwork data.” • Colin Clark, University of the West of Scotland

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: MATERIALITIES OF BELONGINGChapter 1. Ethics and AttemptsChapter 2. Aesthetic PresencesChapter 3. Modernising AbsencesChapter 4. Home TexturesChapter 5. Tastes of HomePART II: SENSES OF (NON-)BELONGINGChapter 6. Olfactory Politics and Everyday RacismChapter 7. De-Constructions of ‘Olfactory Alterities’Chapter 8. Writing SmellsChapter 9. Manufacturing SmellsConclusion: Sensing (Non-)BelongingReferencesIndex

Andreea Racleș has a background in social anthropology and is currently a lecturer and member of academic staff at the Institute for Sociology at Justus-Liebig University Giessen in Germany. She was awarded the Herbert-Stolzenberg-Prize for Excellent Dissertation Projects in the Study of Culture (2019).

“It is a significant and original contribution to the sociological and anthropological literature on belonging: the spaces, places, objects, practices and smells that make up and ground such material… all enriched by the Romanian fieldwork data.” • Colin Clark, University of the West of Scotland

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: MATERIALITIES OF BELONGINGChapter 1. Ethics and AttemptsChapter 2. Aesthetic PresencesChapter 3. Modernising AbsencesChapter 4. Home TexturesChapter 5. Tastes of HomePART II: SENSES OF (NON-)BELONGINGChapter 6. Olfactory Politics and Everyday RacismChapter 7. De-Constructions of ‘Olfactory Alterities’Chapter 8. Writing SmellsChapter 9. Manufacturing SmellsConclusion: Sensing (Non-)BelongingReferencesIndex