Sensory Ethnography Method for Research on Local/Place-Based Knowledge of Solar Energy in an Island of South Sulawesi

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10.2991/978-2-38476-545-4_63How to use a DOI?

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sensory ethnography; embodied sensory; solar energy

Abstract

This is a methodological article on the use of video tour as sensory ethnography method to understand embodied sensory knowing and learning that happen ongoingly as people in an island of South Sulawesi engage with solar energy. Central to this method is the development of ethnographic understanding of local/place-based knowledge defined as ‘the sensuous interrelationship of body-mind-environment’ [5] that include ways of knowing being that are unspoken and tacit [16] of strategies for coping with, or acting within, this interrelated objective-material and subjective-experiential field.

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AU  - Muhammad Zamzam Fauzanafi
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/03/13
TI  - Sensory Ethnography Method for Research on Local/Place-Based Knowledge of Solar Energy in an Island of South Sulawesi
BT  - Proceedings of the World Conference on Governance and Social Sciences 2025 (WCGSS 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 916
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-545-4_63
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