The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography - Paperback

by Phillip Vannini (Editor)

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.

Author Biography

Phillip Vannini is Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University (Canada). He is the author/editor of 20 books, and from 2010 to 2020 he was the series editor for Routledge's Innovative Ethnographies Series. Phillip's documentary films have been distributed worldwide through television, in movie theaters, as well as through SVOD platforms such as Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play, Kanopy, and more.