ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a non-representational approach to sensory ethnography. Non-representational ethnographies emphasize the fleeting, viscous, lively, embodied, material, more-than-human, precognitive, non-discursive dimensions of spatially and temporally complex lifeworlds. Non-representational ethnographies are experimental in nature and often blend traditional research methodologies with imaginative elements. In this chapter, we build on Tim Ingold’s recent work on “Imagining for real” to articulate how non-representational sensory ethnographies emphasize the importance of imagination by relying on creation, attention, and correspondence. To exemplify our argument, we draw upon recent ethnographic research we conducted on the subject of wildness and natural heritage.
