Simon Gottschalk (Sociology, Emeritus, retired) just published the chapter: "Sensory Degradation and Somatic Labor: Critical Sensory Ethnography for Hypermodern Times" in the Combining scholarship on the senses, sensory ethnography, and hypermodernism, the chapter discusses three sources of sensory degradation, reviews the innovations and challenges presented by sensory ethnography, and proposes the concept of somatic labor as a lens that could inform critical sensory ethnographic projects.
