ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|74 pages
Sensory ethnography
chapter 6|13 pages
Sensory Degradation and Somatic Labor
part 2|75 pages
The practice of sensory ethnography
chapter 8|11 pages
Awareness, Focus, and Nuance
chapter 11|14 pages
Participatory Sensory Ethnography
chapter 12|11 pages
Sensory Explorations of Digital Touch
chapter 13|12 pages
Political, Economic, and Relational Production of Sense
part 3|63 pages
Sensuous and atmospheric ethnography
chapter 19|9 pages
Playful Sensuous Pedagogies
part 4|77 pages
More-than-human sensory ethnography
chapter 23|13 pages
Sensing Dirty Matter
chapter 25|12 pages
Sensory Engagements With Lively Data
part 5|71 pages
Non-representational sensory ethnography
chapter 29|13 pages
Staging Unmemorials, Being Haunted
part 6|89 pages
Multimodal sensory ethnography