The ‘drive and talk’ as ethnographic method

Anthropologists have long embraced the value of ‘walk and talk’ ethnographic method, which is an interactive means generating research insights in situ – on site. In this article, we propose that there room for expanded appreciation ‘drive method. While driving talking with their interlocutors, researchers can elicit information prompted by features landscape environment might be otherwise forgotten or overlooked if interview context was set a fixed location. To demonstrate utility approach, article explains empirical phenomenological (sensorial experiential) yielded interlocutors South Australian wine-growing region. Automobility has advantage over ambulation when it comes to accessing landscapes at scale farm, where environmental management decisions are heightened display.