The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography (Routledge International Handbooks)

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. Cover Endorsements Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents 1 The qualities of the “new” sensory ethnography: an introduction Part 1 Sensory ethnography: pasts, presents, and futures 2 The rise of sense-based social inquiry: a genealogy of sensory ethnography 3 Ethnography and the sounds of everyday life 4 Knowing through the racialized senses 5 Getting a grip on new objects, technologies, and sensations through aura, presence, and mimesis 6 Sensory degradation and somatic labor: critical sensory ethnography for hypermodern times 7 Sensory futures ethnography: sensing at the edge of the future Part 2 The practice of sensory ethnography 8 Awareness, focus, and nuance: reflexivity and reflective embodiment in sensory ethnography 9 Sensing the city: multisensory participant observation and urban ethnography 10 Talking about felt spaces: on vagueness and clarity in interviews 11 Participatory sensory ethnography: a collaborative methodology for understanding everyday journeys of disabled people 12 Sensory explorations of digital touch: tactile apprenticeship with new industrial robots 13 Political, economic, and relational production of sense: negotiating sensory inequality and access in research on cochlear implantation in India Part 3 Sensuous and atmospheric ethnography 14 Re-sensing the sensory: evoking senses in a troubled world 15 Elemental 16 Sensuous ethnographies of running: comparing running with walking 17 Constellations of (sensual) relations: space, atmosphere, and sensory design 18 Feeling helium 19 Playful sensuous pedagogies: observations and reflections on teaching sensual ethnography Part 4 More-than-human sensory ethnography 20 Toward a multisensorial engagement with animals 21 Sensing the cloud: research-creation as sensory anthropology 22 Beyond the human: a sensory ethnographer’s gaze on sportfishing practice 23 Sensing dirty matter: sensory ethnography as a more-than-human approach to urban inequalities 24 Resonance: engaging with the more-than-human through Ladakhi soundworlds 25 Sensory engagements with lively data: attuning to the convivialities of more-than-human worlds Part 5 Non-representational sensory ethnography 26 Sound walks 27 Defamiliarizing the sensory 28 Sensing the afterlife: multisensorial ethnography and injured minds 29 Staging unmemorials, being haunted: the grievability of Japanese sex workers in the transpacific underground 30 Non-representational sensory ethnography: creation, attention, and correspondence 31 Sensing scenes: doing sensory ethnography in queer space and time Part 6 Multimodal sensory ethnography 32 Learning to see, or how to make sense of the skillful things skateboarders do 33 The sound remains: archiving the senses 34 Multisensory storytelling: inciting polyvocal polemics in applied ethnography 35 Reframing deafness: vision as fieldwork method and documentary art 36 Representing sensory culture, enacting community: “the Full English” 37 Sensory verité: the intersection of sensory ethnography, sensory biophilia, and cinéma vérité 38 Epilogue: surface tensions List of contributor biographies Index