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Reflexivity and the reflexive process are vital aspects of ethnographic research, including sensory ethnographic studies (Hockey, 2021; McNarry et al., 2019; Sparkes, 2017), and autoethnographic research (Allen-Collinson, 2013). In this chapter, we examine the complexities of sensory reflexivity as it was practiced by us in two auto/ethnographic projects. The first involved John’s extended participant observation with an operational unit of UK British infantry. The second constituted a collaborative autoethnography on distance running, injury, and rehabilitation, and involved both of us (for extended details of the fieldwork, see Allen-Collinson & Hockey, 2020; Hockey, 2016). While neither project was initially conceptualized as being a sensory auto/ethnography specifically, given the salience of the body and corporeal processes in both, the sensory dimensions emerged very strongly.

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This page is a summary of: Awareness, Focus, and Nuance, October 2023, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781003317111-10.
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