A cornerstone of this exciting, growing discipline, this text gives readers a clear introduction to key ideas and common complexities met when doing sensory research and provides plenty of real-world examples to show the method in action.
This bold agenda-setting title continues to spearhead interdisciplinary, multisensory research into experience, knowledge and practice.
Drawing on an explosion of new, cutting edge research Sarah Pink uses real world examples to bring this innovative area of study to life. She encourages us to challenge, revise and rethink core components of ethnography including interviews, participant observation and doing research in a digital world. The book provides an important framework for thinking about sensory ethnography stressing the numerous ways that smell, taste, touch and vision can be interconnected and interrelated within research. Bursting with practical advice on how to effectively conduct and share sensory ethnography this is an important, original book, relevant to all branches of social sciences and humanities.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: About Doing Sensory Ethnography
PART I: Rethinking Ethnography Through The Senses
Chapter 1. Situating Sensory Ethnography: from academia to intervention
Chapter 2. Principles For Sensory Ethnography: perception, place, knowing, memory and imagination
Chapter 3. Preparing For Sensory Research: practical and orientation issues
PART II: Sensory Ethnography In Practice
Chapter 4. The Sensoriality Of The Interview: rethinking personal encounters through the senses
Chapter 5. Sensory Research Through Participation: from observation to intervention
Chapter 6. Mediated Sensory Ethnography: doing and recording sensory ethnography in a digital world
PART III: Interpreting And Representing Sensory Knowing
Chapter 7. Interpreting Multisensory Research : organising, analysing and meaning making
Chapter 8. Representing Sensory Ethnography: communicating, arguing and the non-representational
Afterword: Imagining Sensory Futures: ethnography, design and future studies
