1st Edition
Sensing Life The Social Organisation of the Senses in Interaction
1. Introduction
Will Gibson, Dirk vom Lehn and Natalia Ruiz-Junco
2. Conceptualising Sensory Practice in Everyday Life
Will Gibson, Dirk vom Lehn and Natalia Ruiz-Junco
3. Multisensoriality at Work: Touching and Looking at Bones in Forensic Examinations
Lorenza Mondada and Fernanda Miranda da Cruz
4. Professional Touch and Projected Experience in a Lingerie Trade Fair
Vanessa Piccoli
5. Wheeling and Dealing with Flowers: A Sensory Exchange between a Shopkeeper and a Wholesale Merchant
Camilla Gåfvels
6. Sensing the Atmosphere in Tightly Controlled Settings
Lisa Flower and David Wästerfors
7. Guiding, Sparring and Rolling: Sensing Consent in Cooperative Sporting Interactions
Marit Hiemstra, James Shepherd, Reem AlHashmi and Christopher R. Matthews
8. Shpilkes and Other Needles: The Sensory Experience of Being Tattooed
William Ryan Force
9. The Senses-In-Action: Visual and Haptic Encounters with Occasioned Environments
Robin James Smith, Thomas Aneurin Smith and Samu Pehkonen
10. Intercorporeal and Intersensorial Empathetic Proprioceptive Practices as Social Action in Rock Climbers’ Collaborative Ropework Supported Activities
K. Neil Jenkings
11. The Consequentiality of Sticky Ham Salad: A Post-Praxeological Study of Visual Impaired People’s Sensory Experiences of Food Items
Brian L. Due
12. Semanticzing Non-Common Sensory Experiences
Eve Gardien
13. “Sauna Hot”: Instructed Sensing in Firefighting Exercises
Charlott Sellberg and Martin Viktorelius
14. Exploratory Touch in Children’s Interaction: Perceiving, Approaching, and Categorising Body-Subjects
Anna Ekström, Asta Cekaite, and Anja Rydén Gramner
15. On Transcendence: Embodiment, Interoception and the Somatosensorium of Altered States of Consciousness
Staci Newmahr
Biography
Will Gibson is a Professor of Interactional Sociology and Qualitative Research Methodology at the Institute of Education at University College London, UK. His research concerns interaction and communication in diverse areas of practice, including education and professional contexts. Technology and, increasingly, affect and sensing are central areas of concern in his work.
Natalia Ruiz-Junco is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Auburn University, USA. Her research interests include social theory, social interaction, emotions/affect, and sustainability.
Dirk vom Lehn is a Professor of Organisation and Practice at King's Business School at King's College London, UK. His research focuses on the analysis of social interaction across various settings, including museums, optometric consultations, dance lessons, and street markets.
