Sensory studies arises at the conjuncture (and within) the fields of anthropology • sociology • history • archeology • geography • communications • religion • philosophy • literature • art history • museology • film • mixed media • performance • phenomenology • disability • aesthetics • architecture • urbanism • design

Sensory Studies can also be divided along sensory lines into, for example, visual culture, auditory culture (or sound studies), smell culture, taste culture and the culture of touch, not to mention the sixth sense (however it might be defined)

Research Profile >> Devorah Kalekin-Fishman

After studying music privately throughout my childhood and adolescence, I majored in music for my BA (CUNY – Queens College). Many years later, I began my doctorate with the intention of studying music in kindergartens in Germany and in Israel. That study became an investigation of how sounds map activities in the kindergarten and how sounds – and especially music – serve as a means of deliberate control (‘Time, Sound, and Control: Aspects of Socialization in the Kindergarten’, 1980 – Adviser: Thomas Luckmann).

Among my publications related to sound are:

· Kalekin-Fishman, D. (1986) ‘From the Perspective of Sound: Towards an Explication of the Social Construction of Meaning.’ Sociologia Internationalis 24, Band 2, pp. 171-95.

· Kalekin-Fishman, D. (1991) ‘Latent Messages: The Acoustical Environments of Kindergartens in Israel and West Germany’ Sociology of Education, Volume 64, Number 3, pp. 209-222.

· Kalekin-Fishman, D. (2006) ‘Construing Sounds, Constructing Music and Non-Music’. In: K. Sewell and J. Scheer (eds) Personal Construct Psychology and the Arts. Giessen: Psycho-Sozial Verlag, pp. 99-109.

· Kalekin-Fishman, D. (2010) ‘Sounds that Unite, Sounds that Divide: Pervasive Rituals in a Middle Eastern Society’. (pp. 19-39) In: Kalekin-Fishman, D. and Low, K. E. Y. (eds) Everyday Life in Asia: Social Perspectives on the Senses. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.

· Kalekin-Fishman, D. and Low K. E. Y. (2010) ‘Introduction’ (pp. 1-15) In: Kalekin-Fishman, D. and Low, K. E. Y. (eds) Everyday Life in Asia: Social Perspectives on the Senses. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.

· Low, K.E. Y. and Kalekin-Fishman, D. (2010) ‘Afterword: Towards Transnational Sensescapes’. (pp. 195-203) In: Kalekin-Fishman, D. and Low, K.E. Y. (eds) Everyday Life in Asia: Social Perspectives on the Senses. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.