ABSTRACT
This chapter expresses that seeking the senses in physical culture and producing sensuous scholarship is not easy and that it is hard work. Sensuous scholarship cannot easily tune into the sensuality of everyday life. It can bring our experiences of the sensual world to life in their multiple shapes, colors, tonalities, textures, patterns, sonic reverberations and pulses, in their tastes and odors, movements and imbalances, fragrances and painful sensations. The rethinking and reinterpretation and expanding of the traditional interview to incorporate a sensory awareness that draws on an expanded repertoire of interview elicitation strategies to use the senses as access points, is evident in the work of a number of physical culture researchers. Professional, methodological, pedagogical and representational risks will need to be taken if sensory forms of inquiry are to fulfill their rich potential for advancing our understanding of how and why people, both individually and collectively, engage with and give meaning to physical culture activities and settings.
