Sensory Transformations: Environments, Technologies, Sensobiographies

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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 people’s 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. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of tables List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgements 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 Index