Based on almost three years of ethnographic research living in Rio de Janeiro’s suburbios, I consider how the senses comes to matter and how Pentecostalism, margins, smells, and soaps are put to work to construct new kinds of affective space. To do so, I track the way in which a fragrance composed of runoff waste from an international flavor and fragrance company has come to be understood as “pieces of grace,” or divinely given fragments of prosperity. I argue that the forms of racial and spatial governance that enable something like repurposed waste to become pieces of grace form part of a larger story of the sensorium of the suburbios. In contending with Rio’s racialized urban landscape and how it is sensed and made sense of, I look to what I call the salvific sensorium, a kind of sensed space and territory that exists by engaging the senses with a divine alterity that reconfigures worth and temporality. It is affectively generative, if fleetingly so, and capacious enough to be open to both optimism and its cruelties.

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“闻起来像一千名天使在游行”：里约热内卢西部Subúrbios的救世感官

基于居住在里约热内卢郊区的近三年的人种学研究，我考虑了感官的重要性以及五旬节主义，边缘，气味和肥皂如何用于构建新型情感空间。为此，我跟踪了一种由国际香料和香精公司的径流废物组成的香精被理解为“优雅的碎片”或神圣的繁荣片段的方式。我认为，种族和空间治理的形式使诸如重新利用的废物之类的东西成为优雅的部分，构成了郊区感官大故事的一部分。在谈论里约热闹非凡的城市风光以及如何感知和理解时，我期待着我所说的救赎感官，一种感官的空间和领土，通过将感官与神圣的变化相结合而存在，从而重新构造了价值和时间。如果是短暂的话，它是富有情感的产生力，并且足够大，可以接受乐观主义及其残酷的对待。