Articulating Blind Touch: Thinking through the Feet

Macpherson, Hannah

doi:10.2752/174589309x425120

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“…Classen, 1993;Macpherson, 2009;Paterson, 2006;Sheets-Johnstone, 2011;Sparkes, 2009). Here, the lived body is paramount as a feeling, thinking and moving human being with shifting intersubjective experiences.…”

Section: Problematic Touch In Martial Artsmentioning

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The Rules of Engagement: Negotiating Painful and “Intimate” Touch in Mixed-Sex Martial Arts

Channon

Jennings

2013

Sociology of Sport Journal

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Within the sociology of sport and its related disciplines, martial arts have become increasingly popular sites for research on embodiment, gender and society. While much previous work in this area has focused upon the embodied experiences of either male or female practitioners, relatively few studies have directly addressed the social significance of mixed-sex practice. In this empirically-focused paper, we draw on qualitative, semistructured interviews with both male and female long-term exponents of various different martial arts disciplines in England, exploring experiences of inter-sex touch within training. Within a social-constructionist, feminist framework, we suggest that heteronormative, patriarchal and paternalistic gender structures can potentially be challenged through sustained mixed-sex practice. As such, this article contributes to work on transformative sporting bodies, martial arts and gender subversion.

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Section: Problematic Touch In Martial Artsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Rules of Engagement: Negotiating Painful and “Intimate” Touch in Mixed-Sex Martial Arts

Channon

Jennings

2013

Sociology of Sport Journal

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“…However, such feelings are rarely situated or emplaced within the context of people's everyday temporal-spatial routines (Pow, 2000;Worth, 2013), or complemented with the insights of people born with impairment (Saerberg, 2010). Studies that have considered the influence of specific place interactions have tended to focus on disabling social or built environments (Butler & Bowlby, 1997), without fully engaging with the ephemeral weather worlds that shape people's place interactions in more unpredictable, uncontrollable ways (Macpherson, 2009a(Macpherson, , 2009b(Macpherson, , 2017.…”

Section: Weather Relations Impairment and Disabilitymentioning

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Negotiating nature's weather worlds in the context of life with sight impairment

Bell

Leyshon

Phoenix

2019

Trans Inst British Geog

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We have seen longstanding research interest in diverse nature–society relations, including contentious debates regarding what nature is, the role of humans within or apart from it, and how varied types of non‐human nature shape different societies and individuals within society. Within this work, relatively little attention has been paid to an important aspect of nature experienced everyday: people's “weather‐worlds.” These encompass the qualities of sensory experience that are shaped by fluxes in the medium – the air – in which we routinely live and breathe. Such currents, forces and pressure gradients underwrite our capacities to act and interact with both the animate and inanimate materials and beings we encounter as we negotiate our everyday lives. We focus on these weather worlds here, drawing on the findings of an in‐depth qualitative study exploring how people with varying forms and severities of sight impairment describe their nature experiences, with the weather emerging as an immediate and often highly visceral form of everyday nature encounter among all participants. We reflect on the ephemeral qualities of people's weather‐worlds, highlighting their potential to comfort, invigorate and connect, but also to disorientate, threaten and isolate, at times supporting moments of well‐being or exacerbating experiences of impairment and disability. In doing so, we highlight how attending to the weather is essential if we are to fully understand people's emplaced experiences of well‐being, impairment and disability with(in) diverse forms of multi‐elemental, assembled nature.

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“…Empirically, there has been a focus on the feelings and performances – and networking of bodies and objects that create these – in health care and public health including in holistic practice (Andrews, ; Doel & Segrott, ; Paterson, ; Andrews & Shaw, ; Andrews et al ., ; Lea et al ., ) and the conventional contexts and practices of biomedicine, bioscience, and biopolitics (Greenhough, , , ; Braun, ; Andrews & Shaw, ; Bissell, ; Evans, ; Greenhough & Roe, ; Solomon, ; Anderson, ; Andrews et al ., ; Jackson & Neely, ). A range of community‐based therapeutic and/or enabling situations have also been considered for the same components and qualities (see Conradson, ; Kraftl & Horton, ; Tucker, ; Duff, , ; Foley, , ; Lorimer, ; Barnfield, ; Lea et al ., ; Philo et al ., ), notably in relation to arts (Anderson, , ; McCormack, , ; Evans et al ., ; Atkinson & Rubidge, ; Andrews, , ; Evans, ; Simpson, ; Atkinson & Scott, ) and through the movement of bodies (Macpherson, , , ; Andrews et al ., ; Gatrell, ; Barnfield, ) (although health harming agency has also been explored, Jayne et al ., ; Tan, ; Ravn & Duff, ). Theoretically, there has been a focus on key thinkers and on specific concepts and approaches.…”

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confidence: 99%

Geographical thinking in nursing inquiry, part two: performance, possibility, and non‐representational theory

Andrews

2016

Nursing Philosophy

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Part one in this two paper series reviewed the nature of geographical thinking in nursing research thus far. The current paper builds on it by looking forwards and providing a particular vision for future research. It argues that it is time to once again look to the parent discipline of human geography for inspiration, specifically to its turn towards non-representational theory, involving an emphasis on life that onflows prior to meaning, significance, and full cognition; on life's 'taking-place'. The paper introduces this way of viewing and animating the world. Some potential connections to nursing research and practice are suggested, as are some specific avenues for future inquiry. Explained is how, through non-representational theory, nursing might be re-imagined as something that reveals space-time.

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Articulating Blind Touch: Thinking through the Feet

Cited by 49 publications

References 24 publications

The Rules of Engagement: Negotiating Painful and “Intimate” Touch in Mixed-Sex Martial Arts

The Rules of Engagement: Negotiating Painful and “Intimate” Touch in Mixed-Sex Martial Arts

Negotiating nature's weather worlds in the context of life with sight impairment

Geographical thinking in nursing inquiry, part two: performance, possibility, and non‐representational theory

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