Connecting to Cognition

A Methodological Journey With Urban Dementia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2392434
AutoresJames Rupert Fletcher (0000-0001-9198-4321, University of Bath, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen31
Número1
Páginas171-196
Fecha de publicación2025-05-22
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Research Online (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/13607804241287683
PMID41939245
OpenAlexW4410591037
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas25

Contemporary sociological developments spanning the ontological turn, post-cognitivism, biosocial transdisciplinarity, post-qualitative inquiry, and new empiricism are opening up novel sites of methodological contention regarding the nature of cognition as a research object. While these developments are conceptually stimulating, their (potential) overlapping methodological implications are under-explicated. Outlining a moving ethnography of urban transport use by passengers with dementia, in this article I delve into the more pragmatic methodological contingencies of attempts to engage with cognition as a fundamentally ecological phenomenon. Blurring the boundaries between the management and analysis of data, I develop a laborious and meditative 'journeying analysis' as a means of dealing with an unruly dataset. In line with post-qualitative commitments, I pursue a somewhat haphazard approach to anti-representation, while nonetheless embracing the researcher-centrism of doing research. I advocate creative digital strategies - for example, map-making, soundscaping - for cultivating data forms that offer multiple possibilities for audiences to forge new connections with the study phenomena

Cognition · Dementia · Disease · Epistemology · Sociology · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Medicine · Psychology · Urban Green Space and Health