This volume reviews and expands the field and scope of sensory ethnography by fostering new links amongst sensory, affective, more-than-human, non-representational, and multimodal sensory research traditions and composition styles.
The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography reviews and expands the field and scope of sensory ethnography by fostering new links among sensory, affective, more-than-human, non-representational, and multimodal sensory research traditions and composition styles. From writing and film to performance and sonic documentation, the handbook reimagines the boundaries of sensory ethnography and posits new possibilities for scholarship conducted through the senses and for the senses.
Sensory ethnography is a transdisciplinary research methodology focused on the significance of all the senses in perceiving, creating, and conveying meaning. Drawing from a wide variety of strategies that involve the senses as a means of inquiry, objects of study, and forms of expression, sensory ethnography has played a fundamental role in the contemporary evolution of ethnography writ large as a reflexive, embodied, situated, and multimodal form of scholarship. The handbook dwells on subjects like the genealogy of sensory ethnography, the implications of race in ethnographic inquiry, opening up ethnographic practice to simulate the future, using participatory sensory ethnography for disability studies, the untapped potential of digital touch, and much more.
This is the most definitive reference text available on the market and is intended for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers in anthropology, sociology, and the social sciences, and will serve as a state-of-the-art resource for sensory ethnographers worldwide.
1. Introduction: sensory ethnography Phillip Vannini PART 1: The past,
present, and future of sensory ethnography
2. Re-sensing the sensory: evoking
the senses in a troubled world Paul Stoller
3. Origin and development of
sensory ethnography David Howes
4. Ethnography and the sounds of everyday
life Michael Bull
5. Getting a grip on new objects, technologies, and novel
sensations Mark Paterson
6. Sensory futures ethnography Sarah Pink PART 2:
The practice of sensory ethnography
7. Awareness, focus and nuance:
reflexivity and reflective embodiment in sensory ethnography John Hockey and
Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson
8. Sensing the city: multi-sensory participant
observation and urban ethnography Cristina Moretti
9. Interviewing on
atmospheres: sensory explorations of the mundaneness of urban space Mikkel
Bille
10. Sensing freedom through festival Culture: a sensory
autoethnographic perspective Réa de Matas
11. Disability and methods for
better understanding the sense and sensibilities of everyday mobilities
Gordon Waitt and Theresa Harada
12. Bringing sensory ethnography to digital
touch: sensory Interviews, objects, and tours Carey Jewitt and Ned Barker
13.
Signals, access, and sensory frictions: conducting research on cochlear
implantation in India Michele Friedner
14. Writing senses Simon Gottschalk
15. Sensuous pedagogies: observations and reflections on teaching sensual
ethnography Dennis Waskul PART 3: Affective and atmospheric sensory
ethnography
16. Elemental Kathleen Stewart
17. Sensuous geographies of foot
mobilities: comparing running with walking Jonas Larsen
18. The Full
English: British Muslims, British food and a community project Alex
Rhys-Taylor
19. Exploring sensory design through sensory ethnography Erin
Lynch
20. Feeling helium Marina Peterson PART 4: More-than-human sensory
ethnography
21. Towards a multisensorial engagement with other animals: cases
from Mongolia and Pakistan Natasha Fijn and Muhammad Kavesh
22. White clouds
in the blue sky Kate Hennessy, Trudi Smith, and Steve DiPaola
23. Sensory
ethnographers gaze in sport fishing Vesa Markuksela
24. Sensory ethnography
as a more-than-human approach to urban inequalities Elisa Fiore
25.
Resonances Chris Wright
26. Sensory engagements with lively data:
understanding the more-than-human world with and through timber sculptures
Deborah Lupton, Ash Watson and Vaughan Wozniak-OConnor PART 5: Performative
and more-than-representational sensory ethnography
27. Defamiliarizing the
sensory Tim Edensor
28. Sensuous ethnography or sensory ethnography? Phillip
Vannini
29. Sensorial agoraphobia: lecture halls, fluorescent lights, and
neurology Michelle Charette and Denielle Elliott
30. Staging unmemorials,
being haunted: the grievability of Japanese sex workers in the transpacific
underground Ayaka Yoshimizu
31. Sensing scenes: doing sensory ethnography in
queer social spaces Kerryn Drysdale
32. The classroom and the field: from
engaged pedagogy to sensory ethnography Sander Holsgens PART 6: Multi-modal
sensory ethnography
33. Archiving the senses: an ethnography by design Rupert
Cox
34. Applied sensory ethnography: multimodal installations and sonic
experiments in equitable urban development Beth Uzwiak
35. Reframing
deafness: vision as fieldwork method and documentary art Andrew Irving
36.
Camera-led research and the photographic image: river life in the shadow of a
dam Craig Campbell
37. Drawing as a form of bodily engagement beyond vision
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
38. Framing the voice in sensory ethnography
Kathy Kasic Epilogue Anna Harris
Phillip Vannini is Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University (Canada). He is the author/editor of 20 books, and from 2010 to 2020 he was the series editor for Routledges Innovative Ethnographies Series. Phillips documentary films have been distributed worldwide through television, in movie theaters, as well as through SVOD platforms such as Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play, Kanopy, and more.
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