Sensory Studies
About the Book Series
This series comprises cutting-edge case studies, syntheses and translations in the emergent field of sensory studies. Building on the success of the Sensory Formations series, this series, edited by David Howes, provides an invaluable resource for those involved in research or teaching courses on the senses as object of study and/or means of inquiry. Embracing the insights of a wide array of humanities and social science disciplines, the field of sensory studies has emerged as the most comprehensive and dynamic framework yet for making sense of human experience. This series offers something for every disciplinary taste and sensory inclination.
The Sensory Terroir of Crossmodal Art: Connecting the Senses through Wine and Sound
1st Edition
By Jo Burzynska
March 12, 2026
Sensory Terroir explores how our senses converge in making and experiencing art. It introduces crossmodal art as a new category of creative practice blending multiple senses. Drawing on the interconnectivity of wine terroir, the book provides a non-hierarchical framework for navigating multisensory...
Exiled From Our Bodies: How to Come Back to Our Senses
1st Edition
By Tereza Stehlíková
September 30, 2025
In an era where digital devices increasingly mediate our perception of reality, this book explores the tension between the richness of direct sensory experience and the allure of the screen. It examines how our growing dependence on virtual spaces and visually dominant media has led to a disconnect...
Sense-Making: New Sensory Methods for Exploring the Past and Imagining Possible Futures
1st Edition
By Sheryl Boyle, Genevieve Collins, David Howes
August 22, 2025
In this highly innovative work, the senses are liberated from the confines of the present to serve as vehicles for accessing other historical periods and imagined futures. Sense-Making builds on the burgeoning field of sensory ethnography by introducing a pair of methodologies—sensory (re)...
Sensing the Landscape: An Ethnography of Blindness
1st Edition
By Karis Jade Petty
March 10, 2025
This book examines how vision impaired walkers experience and engage with the English countryside through five sensory activities: walking, seeing, listening, seeing in the mind’s eye, and touching. Journeying through woodland and fields, the chapters reveal a landscape alive with memory, the ...
Locative Tourism Applications: A Sensory Ethnography of the Augmented City
1st Edition
By Erin E. Lynch
May 27, 2024
Travel through time. Walk the streets as they were. See through floors. Hunt for ghosts (with drink in hand). Hear the walls speak. These are just a few of the ways that locative tourism applications seek to augment the urban experience. This book explores the universe of locative tourism ...
Doing Ethnography in the Wake of the Displacement of Transnational Sex Workers in Yokohama: Sensuous Remembering
1st Edition
By Ayaka Yoshimizu
May 31, 2023
Doing Ethnography in the Wake of the Displacement of Transnational Sex Workers in Yokohama reflects on the politics, poetics, and ethics of remembering the lives of transnational migrant sex workers in postcolonial Japan. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the port city of Yokohama, the book ...
A Sensory Education
1st Edition
By Anna Harris
August 01, 2022
A Sensory Education takes a close look at how sensory awareness is learned and taught in expert and everyday settings around the world. Anna Harris shows that our sensing is not innate or acquired, but in fact evolves through learning that is shaped by social and material relations. The chapters ...
Race and the Senses: The Felt Politics of Racial Embodiment
1st Edition
By Sachi Sekimoto, Christopher Brown
June 13, 2022
In Race and the Senses, Sachi Sekimoto and Christopher Brown explore the sensorial and phenomenological materiality of race as it is felt and sensed by the racialized subjects. Situating the lived body as an active, affective, and sensing participant in racialized realities, they argue that race is...
Sounding Out Japan: A Sensory Ethnographic Tour
1st Edition
By Richard Chenhall, Tamara Kohn, Carolyn S. Stevens
May 30, 2022
This book takes the reader on a sensory ethnographic tour in Japan and describes the many ways sounds seep into everyday experiences. So many ethnographies describe local worlds with a deep attention to what is seen and what people say, but with a limited understanding of the broader sonic ...
Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Aesthetics of Power
1st Edition
By Duane Jethro
June 30, 2021
In this book, Duane Jethro creates a framework for understanding the role of the senses in processes of heritage formation. He shows how the senses were important for crafting and successfully deploying new, nation-building heritage projects in South Africa during the postapartheid period. The book...
Food and Multiculture: A Sensory Ethnography of East London
1st Edition
By Alex Rhys-Taylor
August 23, 2018
In this book, Alex Rhys-Taylor offers a ground-breaking sensory ethnography of East London. Drawing on the multicultural context of London, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, he explores concepts such as gentrification, class antagonism, new ethnicities and globalization. Rhys-Taylor...
Sensory Arts and Design
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Heywood
July 26, 2018
Artists, designers and researchers are increasingly seeking new ways to understand and explore the creative and practical significance of the senses. This ground-breaking book brings art and design into the field of sensory studies providing a clear introduction to the field and outlining important...