Theoretical Scholarship and Applied Practice

Sarah Pink is Professor of Design and Emerging Technologies, and Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University, Australia.

• PART I: THEORETICAL SCHOLARSHIP AND APPLIED PRACTICE: OPPORTUNITIES, ETHICS AND ENTANGLEMENTSEditor’s Introduction: Theoretical Scholarship and Applied Practice: opportunities and challenges of working in the in-betweenSarah Pink, Vaike Fors and Tom O’DellChapter 1. Ethics in a changing world: embracing uncertainty, understanding futures and making responsible interventionsSarah PinkPART II: MAKING CONTACT AND MAKING SENSEChapter 2. Workshops as nodes of knowledge co-production: beyond ideas of automagical synergiesMartin Berg and Vaike ForsChapter 3. The Conversation Analytic Role-play Method: tacit methods, endogenous impact and interactional ‘nudges’ in applied interaction analysisElizabeth Stokoe and Rein SikvelandChapter 4. Making Theory, Making Interventions: doing applied scholarship at the in between in safety researchSarah Pink, Jennie Morgan and Andrew DaintyPART III: WORKING IN INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMSChapter 5. From Emplaced Knowing to Interdisciplinary Knowledge: Sensory Ethnography in Energy ResearchKerstin Leder Mackley and Sarah PinkChapter 6. Working Across Disciplines: Using Visual Methods in Participatory FrameworksSusan HoganPART IV: LETTING GO AND MOVING FORWARDChapter 7. How to gain traction? From theoretical scholarship to applied outcomes in energy demand research and housing researchYolande Strengers, Cecily Maller and Larissa NichollsChapter 8. The Social Life of HOMAGOHeather A. HorstChapter 9. Entanglements: Issues in Applied Research and Theoretical ScholarshipTom O’Dell and Robert WillimPART V: AFTERWORDChapter 10.  Afterword: The deep dynamics of the betweenPaul StollerBibliographyIndex

“This book provides a well-grounded and meticulously described account of a number of projects involving ‘publics’ and external stakeholders in the process of doing research. The editors address a gap in academic knowledge, providing rich and useful detail about the nature of, and practices involved in, collaborative interdisciplinary research.” · Kate Pahl, University of Sheffield"The work is a great contribution to the fields of theoretical and practical anthropology, which are often seen as dichotomous. Through the presentation and analysis of nine case studies of public policy, business or the third sector carried out in England, Sweden and the United States, the authors show us their experience during fieldwork between the theory and the applied practice and how theory and practice can be combined." · Social Anthropology