Sensing the Landscape

An Ethnography of Blindness

Karis Jade Petty

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English

Routledge
10 March 2025

Disability: social aspects; Sociology: customs & traditions; Social & cultural anthropology; Human geography; The environment

Series: Sensory Studies

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 imagination, and suffused with shifting temporalities. Karis Jade Petty develops the concepts of inclusive sensoriality and sensorial emplacement, which enable us to revise our understandings of the sensory organisations of experience, animate conceptualisations of landscape, and rethink self-landscape relationality. Reimagining notions of vision and the boundedness of the sensory body, this book will be relevant to scholars from a number of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, geography, visual studies, disability studies, and sensory studies more broadly.

By: Karis Jade Petty
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9780367650223
ISBN 10: 0367650223
Series: Sensory Studies
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 10 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Karis Jade Petty is a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sussex. Her work focuses on sensory experience, landscape, walking, and vision impairment.

Reviews for Sensing the Landscape: An Ethnography of Blindness

“Sensing the Landscape provides a critically important intervention into the fields of sensory and phenomenological anthropology. Pushing us to consider more carefully the richly textured ways that the world is experienced by people with visual impairments, Karis Jade Petty call for developing a more inclusive sensorality is long overdue.” - Professor Jason Throop, University of California, Los Angeles ""In Sensing the Landscape: An Ethnography of Blindness, Karis Jade Petty beautifully explores the intricacies of sight, perception, and embodiment through the practice of walking the English countryside. By embracing perceptual empathy and positional reflexivity, Petty challenges the visual primacy of ethnographic methods, expanding our understanding of multisensory ways of knowing. Her portrayal of diverse sensory experiences skillfully weaves the visual into a dynamic dance with haptic, tactile, auditory, and kinesthetic ways of knowing and being, offering an inspiring new approach to inclusive sensoriality and sensory emplacement."" - Dr. Gili Hammer, Senior Lecturer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel