Together with Will Gibson (UCL) and Natalia Ruiz-Junco (Auburn University) I have published a new edited collection titled “Sensing Life: The Social Organisation of the Senses in Interaction“.

Table of contents

1 Will Gibson, Natalia Ruiz-Junco and Dirk vom Lehn: Introduction

Part 1 – Studying the Senses 

2 Will Gibson, Natalia Ruiz-Junco and Dirk vom Lehn: Theorizing the senses 

Part 2 – Sensing at Work 

3 Lorenza Mondada: Inspecting and touching human bones: professional sensing in forensic teamwork 

4 Vanessa Piccoli: Professional touch and projected experience in a lingerie trade fair 

5 Camilla Gåfvels: Incredibly nice: a sensory exchange between shop owner and a whole-sales merchant within the florist business 

6 Lisa Flower and David Wästerfors: Sensing what to do, and doing things with one’s senses  

7 Marit Hiemstra, James Shepherd, Reem AlHashmi, Christopher Matthews: Guiding, rolling and sparring: sensing consent in cooperative sporting interactions 

8 Will Force: The sensory experience of professional tattoo spaces 

Part 3 – Learning to Sense Life 

9 Robin James Smith, Thomas Aneurin Smith, Samu Pehkonen: The senses-in-action: the practical accomplishment of sensory-landscape configurations 

10 Neil Jenkings: Intersensorial communication in the collaborative local production rock climbing order: an attempt at describing the sensorium ethnomethodologically 

11 Brian Due: Socio-Sensing-Materials: assembling visually impaired people in social interaction with food in space 

12 Eve Gardien: Semanticizing sensory experiences 

13 Marc Relieu: Learning how to walk in step with a long cane through instructional finger snapping 

14 Charlott Sellberg, Martin Viktorelius: Sensory aspects of instructions-in-action: an ethnography of basic safety training 

15 Anna Ekström, Asta Cekaite, Anja Rydén Gramner: The interactive organization of exploratory touch between children: sensing, approaching and categorizing body-subjects 

Part 4 – Transcending the Senses  

16 Melissa Lavin: The oracular senses 

17 Staci Newmahr: On touch and transcendence – and toward a sensuous sociology