Posthuman Visual Methods in Multispecies Ethnographies: 360-degree Cameras as Field Companions and Human-Technological Enhancements

This article examines 360-degree cameras as tools that advance posthuman methods utilized during multispecies ethnographic fieldwork. In Finnish Lapland, we recorded immersive footage with a 360-degree camera during 19 go-along interviews with humans, and observations of their Siberian and Alaskan huskies working in sled dog tourism contexts. We conceptualize the 360-degree camera as a field companion and a human-technological enhancement that can decenter the ethnographer’s gaze and, in so doing, better represent multispecies realities. This technological asset can facilitate holistic and embodied forms of ethnographic observation, enabling inclusive, reflexive and relational ways of understanding interspecies dynamics.