The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography

1. The qualities of the “new” sensory ethnography: an introduction - Phillip Vannini

PART 1: Sensory ethnography: pasts, presents, and futures

2. The rise of sense-based social inquiry: a genealogy of sensory ethnography - David Howes

3. Ethnography and the sounds of everyday life - Michael Bull

4. Knowing through the racialized senses - Sachi Sekimoto and Christopher Brown

5. Getting a grip on new objects, technologies, and sensations through aura, presence, and mimesis - Mark Paterson

6. Sensory degradation and somatic labor: critical sensory ethnography for hypermodern times - Simon Gottschalk

7. Sensory futures ethnography: sensing at the edge of the future - Sarah Pink

PART 2: The practice of sensory ethnography

8. Awareness, focus and nuance: reflexivity and reflective embodiment in sensory ethnography - John Hockey and Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson

9. Sensing the city: multi-sensory participant observation and urban ethnography - Cristina Moretti

10. Talking about felt spaces: on vagueness and clarity in interviews - Mikkel Bille

11. Participatory sensory ethnography: a collaborative methodology for understanding everyday journeys of disabled people - Gordon Waitt and Theresa Harada

12. Sensory explorations of digital touch: tactile apprenticeship with new industrial robots - Ned Barker and Carey Jewitt

13. Political, economic, and relational production of sense: negotiating sensory inequality and access in research on cochlear implantation in India - Michele Friedner

PART 3: Sensuous and atmospheric ethnography

14. Re-sensing the sensory: evoking the senses in a troubled world - Paul Stoller

15. Elemental - Kathleen Stewart

16. Sensuous geographies of “foot mobilities’”: comparing running with walking - Jonas Larsen

17. Constellations of (sensual) relations: space, atmosphere, and sensory design - Erin Lynch

18. Feeling helium - Marina Peterson

19. Playful sensuous pedagogies: observations and reflections on teaching sensual ethnography - Dennis Waskul

PART 4: More-than-human sensory ethnography

20. Towards a multisensorial engagement with animals - Natasha Fijn and Muhammad Kavesh

21. Sensing the cloud: research creation as sensory anthropology - Kate Hennessy, Trudi Lynn Smith, Steve DiPaola, and Amineh Ahmadi Nejad

22. Beyond the human: a sensory ethnographer’s gaze on sportfishing practice - Vesa Markuksela

23. Sensing dirty matter: sensory ethnography as a more-than-human approach to urban inequalities - Elisa Fiore

24. Resonance: engaging with the more-than-human through Ladakhi soundworlds - Chris Wright

25. Sensory engagements with lively data: attuning to the convivialities of more-than-human worlds - Deborah Lupton, Ash Watson and Vaughan Wozniak-O’Connor

PART 5: Non-representational sensory ethnography

26. Sound walks - Tim Ingold

27. Defamiliarizing the sensory - Tim Edensor

28. Sensing the afterlife: multisensorial ethnography and injured minds - Michelle Charette and Denielle Elliott

29. Staging unmemorials, being haunted: the grievability of Japanese sex workers in the transpacific underground - Ayaka Yoshimizu

30. Non-representational sensory ethnography: creation, attention, and correspondence - Phillip Vannini and April Vannini

31. Sensing scenes: doing sensory ethnography in queer space and time - Kerryn Drysdale and Jan Filmer

PART 6: Multi-modal sensory ethnography

32. Learning to see, or how to make sense of the skillful things skateboarders do - Sander Hölsgens

33. The sound remains: archiving the senses - Rupert Cox and Junko Konishi

34. Multisensory storytelling: inciting polyvocal polemics in applied ethnography - Beth A Uzwiak

35. Reframing deafness: vision as fieldwork method and documentary art - Andrew Irving

36. Representing sensory culture, enacting community: The “Full English” - Alex Rhys-Taylor

37. Sensory verité: the intersection of sensory ethnography, sensory biophilia, and cinema vérité - Kathy Kasic

38. Epilogue - Anna Harris

Biography

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 Routledge’s Innovative Ethnographies Series. Phillip’s 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.

"This is a pivotal volume that invites readers to immerse themselves in the bountiful landscape of sensory ethnography before offering a host of possibilities for its future development as a unique, and crucial, way of knowing about the lifeworlds we collectively inhabit. All ethnographers and qualitative researchers will gain immensely from dwelling within the pages of this beautifully crafted and thought-provoking book".

-Andrew C. Sparkes, Leeds Beckett University, UK

 

"Readers should be warned that an avalanche of sensorial vibrations will travel through their veins as they dive into this stellar compilation, which places in conversation the 'giants' of sensory ethnography. Our contemporary world starves for caring and meaningful relations. Sensory ethnography responds to this need, and this volume tells us why". 

-Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, University of Victoria, Canada

 

"A vital collection of works that will be an instant classic. Under Vannini’s editorship the handbook achieves remarkable coverage and depth.  Not only is his introduction a masterful orientation to the essays inside but it establishes clearly and powerfully that this is an essential resource for anyone interested in ethnography".

-Craig Campbell, University of Texas, Austin, USA