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An urban tour

The sensory sociality of ethnographic place-making

Loughborough University, UK, s.pink{at}lboro.ac.uk

In this article I explore the implications of theorizing ethnographic research as a place-making process. I suggest that if ethnography can be understood as place-making then the task of the reflexive ethnographer includes seeking to understand both her or his own emplacement and how she or he is involved in the constitution of ethnographic places. Taking one research event — an urban tour — as a case study, I analyse the sensoriality and sociality of `shared' walking, eating, drinking, imagining, photographing, and audio- and video-recording, alongside and with research participants. I argue that it is by attuning her or himself to other people's practices that the ethnographer might be able, through her or his embodied experience, to make and thus comprehend the places she or he seeks to analyse.

Key Words: place-making • urban • routes • senses • walking • eating

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