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Our previous chapter highlighted the increasing interest in visual methods such as photoethnography, visual elicitation and film, but it would be a mistake to assume that an interest in the other senses of smell, taste, touch and so on have been similarly embraced by qualitative researchers. While visual culture has prompted a whole range of new research techniques, other sensory media have often been sidelined (Pink, 2015). Many authors have noted that there exists a “hierarchy of the senses” (Howes & Classen, 2013), with vision occupying the uppermost position, and have rightly called for this to be challenged methodologically, not by ignoring vision or relegating it to the sidelines, but by expanding out from it and considering it alongside other senses.
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Hamilton, L., Taylor, N. (2017). Sensory Methods. In: Ethnography after Humanism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53933-5_6
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