This book offers original insights into cultural transformations of the sensory with particular emphasis on environments and technologies, articulating a special moment in the sensory history of urban Europe as peoples relationship with their environment is increasingly shaped through digital technologies.
It is a much-needed addition to Sensory Studies literature with its firmly grounded empirical and theoretical perspectives. It provides radical and impactful food for thought on sensory engagements with urban environments. After reading the book, the reader will have a profound understanding of the original methodology of sensobiographic walking, as well as transdisciplinary and transgenerational ethnographies in different cultural contexts in this case three European cities.
The book is aimed at a large audience of readers. It is equally useful for social and human scientists and students finalizing their MA degrees or working on their doctoral or post-doctoral work, and essential reading for environmental planners, youth workers, city planners and architects, among others.
This book offers cutting-edge insights in cultural transformations of the sensory with particular emphasis on environments and technologies, articulating a special moment in the sensory history of urban Europe as peoples relationship with their environment is increasingly shaped through digital technologies.
1. Cultural Transformations and Mediations Revealed Through
Transgenerational Sensobiographies Part 1: Transforming Knowledge:
Methodological Design
2. Embodied Dialogues: A Transformative Pedagogy of
Space, Time, and Identity
3. Anthropology of the Senses/Sensory Anthropology:
Pre-Theoretical Commitments and Their Consequences
4. Sensorial Narrations on
Music and Dance: Extrapolating Affect from Sensobiographic Walks
5. Analysing
the SENSOTRA project: Collaborative Coding Part 2: Transforming Cultures:
Finding Each Other in Time and Space
6. Sensobiography as a Mobile Search for
Relational Knowledge
7. Senses On/Of the Move: Mobilities, Place-Making, and
the Urban Sensory Commons
8. Senso-Mobile and Generational Tactics of Diverse
City Spaces
9. Wartime Ljubljana and Early Socialist Yugoslavia on the Tip of
the Tongue
10. City Atmosphere Forming Place Attachment: The Case of Brighton
(UK)
11. 'With Some People You Share A Level': Digitechnological Likenessing
in Urban Space Part 3: Mediating Transformations
12. Immediacies of
Mediation: Exploring the Co-Emergence of Media, Environments and Sensory
Experiences
13. Urban Nature and Digital Media Technologies Entangled:
Sensobiographies of Young People in Turku, Finland
14. Civic Disobedience and
Counter-Cultural Politics: Towards Culture-Historical Sensobiographies
Helmi Järviluoma is a Finnish sound, music and cultural scholar and writer. She is Professor Emerita of Cultural Studies at the University of Eastern Finland. As sensory and soundscape ethnographer, Järviluoma has developed the mobile method of sensobiographic walking. Her research and art span the fields of sensory remembering, qualitative methodology (especially regarding gender), environmental cultural studies, sound art and fiction writing. In 2016, she received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council ERC, in order to study Sensory Transformations and Transgenerational Environmental Relationships, 19502020 SENSOTRA in the three European cities. Among her 180 publications, co-authored Gender and Qualitative Methods (2003/2010) continues to draw attention. She has written and directed six radio features for the Finnish Broadcasting Company. The Finnish Union of University Professors selected Helmi Järviluoma as professor of the year 2019; 2018 Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, invited her as a member.
Lesley Murray is Professor of Spatial Sociology at the University of Brighton, UK, where her research centres around the social and cultural aspects of transport and mobilities. She has written extensively on gendered and generational mobilities as well as mobile methodologies. Her publications include Childrens Mobilities: Interdependent, Imagined, Relational (co-author, 2019); Mobile methodologies (co-editor, 2010); Researching mobilities: transdisciplinary encounters (co-editor, 2014); Intergenerational Mobilities: Relationality, age and lifecourse (co-editor, Routledge 2017); and Families in Motion: Space, Time, Materials and Emotion (co-editor, 2019). Her most recent research was as principal investigator on a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project (AH/V013122/1) on the immobilities of gender-based violence in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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