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

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锻造体积法

在过去的二十年里，英语社会科学和人文学科出现了“体积转向”。这一转变的前提是空间可以用三维术语更好地理解——具有复杂的高度和深度——而不是一系列二维区域或表面。虽然有越来越多样化和丰富的学术研究来解释空中、海洋、冰、山脉和地下的大量复杂性，但这项工作往往以国家和军队为主导的体积方法为前景。这导致了一个有限的方法工具包，通过它来探索大量复杂性，因为它们出现并扩展到军事和国家背景之外。通常依赖精英访谈、档案和制图，对于方法论实践和阐明三维世界的研究成果的“平坦性”，几乎没有批判性讨论。在本文中，我们通过突出沉浸式和多感官方法（声音体积、视感无人机体积和物体体积）的作用来解决这个问题。总而言之，我们提供了进一步探究的途径，包括关注人类世日常大量经验的变化，以及使“大量”研究的交流多样化的需要。