Doing Sensory Ethnography

About the Book

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.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
Sarah Pink is Professor of Design and Emerging Technologies, Founding Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University Australia and Associate Director of Monash Energy Institute. She is International Guest Professor at Halmstad University in Sweden, Adjunct Distinguished Professor at RMIT University Australia, where she was previously Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre. She is also Visiting Professor in the Design School and Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at Loughborough University, where she was formerly Professor of Social Sciences. Sarah is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Sarah is a world leader in innovative digital, visual and sensory research and dissemination methodologies, which she engages in interdisciplinary projects with design, engineering and creative practice disciplines to engage with contemporary issues and challenges. She is known globally for her design anthropological research and collaboration across disciplines and with partners inside and outside academia. She has developed and collaborated in visual ethnography research across the world, including in the United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Australia, Brazil, Chile and Indonesia.

Review :
Doing Sensory Ethnography is an essential, readable and above all fascinating volume that is required reading across disciplines and for anyone interested in or working on the senses. Doing Sensory Ethnography situates the field in its broad multidisciplinary and contemporary context, but also provides a hands-on approach to  ethnographic methods as well as the writing up of results. It guides the reader through the field in a reflexive and highly stimulating way.