Sensing

Lapworth, Andrew

doi:10.1111/tran.12327

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“…The act of listening, including techniques of field recordings, invite a kind of sensory exploration of the world, because soundscapes are diffused across subjects and objects, human and nonhuman (Doughty et al., 2019; Gallagher et al., 2016). Immersive film techniques, including montage (Boyd, 2017a) and third person video (Garrett, 2011), also encourage this kind of sensory exploration (Lapworth, 2019). Images, including photographs, are more challenging, because so much of photographic practice in human geography privileges the human subject, either as the ‘content’ of the photograph itself or as the ‘knowing perceiver’ of the image (Keating, 2019).…”

Section: Becoming ‘Post‐’mentioning

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Postqualitative geographies

Boyd

2022

Geography Compass

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This essay examines recent literature that advocates for a postqualitative approach to research in the social sciences and humanities. Exploring across disciplinary boundaries, this essay interrogates parallel developments in the field of education, much of which are informed by non‐representational theories in geography as well as current trends within the discipline to advance postphenomenological and posthumanist methodologies. As a starting point, the on‐going contribution of qualitative methods to human geography is acknowledged alongside a questioning of their currency in the light of posthumanism. The extreme position—that ‘conventional’ qualitative methods are based on an outmoded view of the human subject and should, therefore, be discarded—is evaluated before presenting a ‘softer’ version of postqualitative inquiry which re‐thinks the subject and troubles method, rather than rejecting it outright. The essay continues by focussing on work within and beyond human geography that aims to advance a ‘post‐’ sensibility in relation to method—one that does not eschew method itself but rather the kind of proceduralism that qualitative methods often entail—and concludes by considering the practical implications of postqualitative approaches for human geography.

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Postqualitative geographies

Boyd

2022

Geography Compass

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“…18 The individual at home, locked down to avoid COVID-19, looks at a display of shaded hues derived from the signals of phones or the addresses in a digital database and understands these colours, dots or lists to denote infected bodies, capable of transmitting a virus through the touch of contaminated surfaces or the exhalation of air. Such moments involve a more-than-human sensing ( Lapworth 2019 ), in which the visual, haptic and digital combine in a spatialized representation encoding both risk and safety.…”

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The Limits of the City: Atmospheres of Lockdown

Young

2021

The British Journal of Criminology

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Criminological engagement with urban environments has burgeoned, including investigations into the criminological sense of place and into the atmospheres of crime and justice. This article analyses cities under lockdown in the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Used in numerous cities, lockdowns conjoin public health initiatives and crime control to restrict the location and activities of citizens. Drawing on textual and ethnographic exploration of lockdown in Melbourne, Australia, the article examines how we make meaning in lockdown through processes of sensory and spatial interpretation. Such an approach exposes both atmospheres of control, through the criminalization of everyday activities, and numerous instances of subversion through resistance to and adaptation of the spatial and sensorial characteristics of lockdown. The article argues for the importance of the sensory as a means of conceptualizing, repopulating and redesigning future cities after lockdown ends.

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“…For example, “Imaging” (Keating, ) explores how approaching the nonhuman powers of image‐making practices – like photography – provide opportunities for disrupting an embodied subject's evaluative and perceptive frames. “Sensing” (Lapworth, ), meanwhile, highlights how filmic encounters might disrupt the conventional anthropocentric framings of sense‐making by rendering perceptible the nonhuman forces and relations that comprise research ecologies.…”

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Practising post‐humanism in geographical research

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Lapworth

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Trans Inst British Geog

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Post-humanist theories shaping contemporary geographic research have unsettled the privileged position of the "human" as a common reference to apprehend social life. This decentring of the human demands that we rethink our expectations of, and approaches to, methodological practice and the traditional distinctions made between the theoretical and the empirical. In this introduction and the following interventions, we explore how a material situatedness and attention to nonhuman agencies within post-humanist thought complement and extend existing methodological innovations within human geography. We do so with reference to a series of Masters workshopsa somewhat overlooked space of research-creationeach of which explored the implications of post-humanism on methodological practice. The introduction concludes with three key tenets that were followed in each of the individual workshops, and which set out an ethos for practising post-humanism more broadly. K E Y W O R D S experimentation, geographic method, Masters workshops, nonhuman intensities, post-humanist theory, theory/practice divide 1 | PRACTISING POST-HUMANISM: WHY NOW?Recently, there has been a push to explore more experimental orientations to the "doing" of research and to develop practices that problematise methodological assumptions pertaining to rigour, reliability, and representation within geography (Dowling et al., 2016(Dowling et al., , 2017(Dowling et al., , 2018Vannini, 2015;Whatmore, 2006). In this paper we contribute to these exciting debates by engaging with the way post-humanist theoretical innovations shaping contemporary human geography require us to rethink the empirical demands and methodological responsibilities of geographical research. In bringing the material and affective registers of social life to the fore, post-humanist theories have the potential to reconfigure our relation to research practices in ways that trouble the traditional distinction between the theoretical and the empirical. It is in this potential for capturing novel aspects of contemporary social and cultural life, in excess of human durations, that we situate our concern for the practice of post-humanism within human geography.Responding to the call to experiment methodologically, the turn to more-than-human geographies has done much to broaden the remit of contemporary research to include the agency of the nonhuman in shaping social life. As Bastian et al. (2016, p. 2) note, a key concern here is "to take nonhuman life, and the entanglements of human/nonhuman life seriously" in the production of geographical knowledge. This concern is precisely about the challenge of attending to diverse nonhuman agencies in ways that demand different approaches to the act of doing geographical research. In turning to the relationship between post-humanism and geographical research (Braun,

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Sensing

Cited by 6 publications

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Postqualitative geographies

Postqualitative geographies

The Limits of the City: Atmospheres of Lockdown

Practising post‐humanism in geographical research

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