ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE INVISIBLE Energy in the Multisensory Home
Author(s) -
Sarah Pink
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
ethnologia europaea
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1604-3030
pISSN - 0425-4597
DOI - 10.16995/ee.1082
Subject(s) - ethnography , consumption (sociology) , sociology , energy (signal processing) , constitution , qualitative research , gender studies , social science , anthropology , political science , law , statistics , mathematics
This article is concerned with the question of the ethnography of the invisible: multisensory research about domestic energy practices. In it I draw on existing and imagined research to outline an agenda for doing ethnography of domestic energy consumption practices. I will not be the first to use qualitative methods to research how people consume energy in their homes. Yet my aim is to further the methodological basis for such research by examining the implications of applying a theory of multisensoriality to understanding the co-constitution of the practices and places of domestic energy consumption.
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