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Walking With 360° Video Immersive Empathetic Ethnographic Encounters With Syrians
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3).ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2682-035X
2026 (English)In: International Journal of Qualitative Methods, E-ISSN 1609-4069, Vol. 25, p. 1-14Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Immersive media technologies continue to provide new and challenging opportunities for visual anthropology. Increasingly, ethnographic filmmakers use small 360° video cameras for anthropological fieldwork. In the light of these new technologies, I aim to re-assess empathetic encounter and embodied knowledge, sharing my own sensorial fieldwork experiences, sensory memory, and the sense of presence. This study employs 360° video technology as a qualitative research tool in a multi-sited and multi-modal urban visual ethnographic enquiry with Syrian refugees living in secondary cities in Sweden, Turkey, and Jordan. It explores the everyday experiences of Syrian refugees, namely their life worlds. I use 360° video as a walking method during participant observation of Syrian families, enabling me to take visual fieldnotes and emplacing me in the field. I critically reflect on the affordances of 360° video for ethnographic fieldwork and argue that this method is central to developing more situated and embodied knowledge in the field of sensorial and visual anthropology.

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SAGE Publications Inc. , 2026. Vol. 25, p. 1-14
Keywords [en]
360° video, empathetic encounter, fieldwork, immersive storytelling, sensory anthropology, Syrian refugees, virtual reality, visual ethnography
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Social Anthropology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-83562DOI: 10.1177/16094069261435576ISI: 001717564000001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105033137529OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-83562DiVA, id: diva2:2051002
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Swedish Research CouncilSwedish Research CouncilAvailable from: 2026-04-07 Created: 2026-04-07 Last updated: 2026-04-07Bibliographically approved

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