TY - JOUR
T1 - Sensoriality, social interaction, and “doing sensing” in physical–cultural ethnographies
AU - Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn
AU - McNarry, Gareth
AU - Evans, Adam B.
N1 - CURIS 2021 NEXS 179
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - As recently highlighted, despite a burgeoning field of sensory ethnography, the practices, production, and accountability of the senses in specific social interactional contexts remain sociologically under-explored. To contribute original insights to a literature on the sensuous body in physical–cultural contexts, here we adopt an ethnomethodologically sensitive perspective to focus on the accomplishment, social organization, and accountability of sensoriality in interaction. Exploring instances of the senses at work in social interaction, we utilize data from two ethnographic research projects to investigate the production of running-together and swimming-together by skilled, experienced practitioners. We focus on two interlinked sensory modalities: auditory attunement, and vision and intercorporeality, identified as key dimensions of sensory embodiment and “togethering” in these particular domains.
AB - As recently highlighted, despite a burgeoning field of sensory ethnography, the practices, production, and accountability of the senses in specific social interactional contexts remain sociologically under-explored. To contribute original insights to a literature on the sensuous body in physical–cultural contexts, here we adopt an ethnomethodologically sensitive perspective to focus on the accomplishment, social organization, and accountability of sensoriality in interaction. Exploring instances of the senses at work in social interaction, we utilize data from two ethnographic research projects to investigate the production of running-together and swimming-together by skilled, experienced practitioners. We focus on two interlinked sensory modalities: auditory attunement, and vision and intercorporeality, identified as key dimensions of sensory embodiment and “togethering” in these particular domains.
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - Ethnomethodology
KW - Sociology of the senses
KW - Distance running
KW - Performance swimming
KW - Ethnography of sport and physical cultures
U2 - 10.1177/08912416211014266
DO - 10.1177/08912416211014266
M3 - Journal article
VL - 50
SP - 599
EP - 621
JO - Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
JF - Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
SN - 0891-2416
IS - 5
ER -