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- Title
The smell of lockdown: Smellwalks as sensuous methodology.
- Authors
Allen, Louisa
- Abstract
This paper explores a form of sensuous methodology known as smellwalks. Smellwalks are a method which require a reorientation of the senses to temporarily emphasize the information received from the nose. During a smellwalk, the researcher employs an active form of smelling to examine their environment that diverges from normal smell perception. In this research, smellwalks are deployed to investigate the experience of lockdown in a suburban town in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Six solo walks were undertaken, three during lockdown and three out of it, to compare the presence and absence of smells during these periods. In attuning to the invisible, intangible, mundane, and small details of life via smell, smellwalks opened opportunities for new embodied and material knowledge about lockdown experience. It is argued that smellwalks offer a sensory and embodied method with the capacity to attend to more than vision and representation.
- Subjects
NEW Zealand; MENTAL orientation; SUBURBANITES; SENSORY perception; SUBURBS; SENSORY stimulation; ENVIRONMENTAL health; WALKING; STAY-at-home orders; POPULATION health; POLLUTION
- Publication
Qualitative Research, 2023, Vol 23, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
1468-7941
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/14687941211007663