Forging volumetric methods

The last two decades have seen a “volumetric turn” within Anglophone social sciences and humanities scholarship. This turn is premised on the idea that space may be better understood in three-dimensional terms – with complex heights depths rather than as series of two-dimensional areas or surfaces. While there an increasingly diverse rich set scholarship accounting for voluminous complexities air, oceans, ice, mountains, undergrounds, all too often this work foregrounds state military-led approaches to volume. has resulted limited methodological toolkit through which explore they emerge extend beyond military contexts. Often reliant elite interviews, archives, cartographies, been little critical discussion both practice “flatness” research outputs articulating worlds. In paper we address by foregrounding role immersive multisensory methodologies (sounding volumes, seeing-sensing drone object volumes). To conclude, offer avenues further inquiry, including attending shifting everyday experiences Anthropocene, need diversify communication “volume” research.