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Video and a Sense of the Invisible: Approaching Domestic Energy Consumption through the Sensory Home

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  • Sarah Pink
  • Kerstin Leder Mackley

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This article proposes and demonstrates an approach to understanding everyday life that takes as its starting point the sensory aesthetics of place. In doing so it advances a video-ethnography approach to studying ‘invisible’ elements of everyday domestic life through the prism of the sensory home. Our concern is chiefly methodological: first, we take a biography of method approach to explain and identify the status of the research knowledge this approach can produce; second, we outline how the video tour as a multisensorial and collaborative research encounter can open up understandings of home as place-event; finally, we probe the status of video as ethnographic description by inviting the reader/viewer to access ways of knowing as they are inscribed in embedded clips, in relation to our written argument. To demonstrate this we discuss and embed clips from a pilot video tour developed as part of an interdisciplinary research project, seeking to understand domestic energy consumption as entangled in everyday practices, experiences and creativities.

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  • Sarah Pink & Kerstin Leder Mackley, 2012. "Video and a Sense of the Invisible: Approaching Domestic Energy Consumption through the Sensory Home," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 17(1), pages 87-105, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:17:y:2012:i:1:p:87-105
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.2583
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    1. Rasheeta Chandler & Erica Anstey & Henry Ross, 2015. "Listening to Voices and Visualizing Data in Qualitative Research," SAGE Open, , vol. 5(2), pages 21582440155, June.
    2. Magali Peyrefitte, 2012. "Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being and Ways of Knowing in the Inner-City: Exploring Sense of Place through Visual Tours," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 17(4), pages 125-141, November.
    3. Heidenstrøm, Nina & Throne-Holst, Harald, 2020. "“Someone will take care of it”. Households' understanding of their responsibility to prepare for and cope with electricity and ICT infrastructure breakdowns," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 144(C).
    4. Waitt, Gordon & Roggeveen, Kate & Gordon, Ross & Butler, Katherine & Cooper, Paul, 2016. "Tyrannies of thrift: Governmentality and older, low-income people’s energy efficiency narratives in the Illawarra, Australia," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 90(C), pages 37-45.

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