Fearless Trembling: A Leap of Faith into the Devil's Frying Pan

Crisis Rhetoric, Stigma Play: The Contested Status of Humanities Majors on an Elite University Campus

“…Subculture studies could also illuminate these findings, revealing how college‐level humanism, as a form of performative anticonsumerist resistance, takes on a new veneer, albeit geeky, of coolness as youth cultures seek meaning in the midst of pervasive cultural fragmentation, flux, and fluidity (Thornton ; Weinzierl and Muggleton, ). Even the sociology of extreme sports may be relevant here, as today's humanities majors surf stigmatization in the interest of experiencing the freedom found in self‐affirmation (Laviolette ; Willig ). Akin to extreme athletes who find novel self‐formative possibilities in playing with risk, it may be that humanities majors play, in serious ways, with stigma.…”

Between narrative and practice: Storytelling as a way of knowing how to be in nature

“…In walking routes, pedestrians (re)produce their embodied, including sensual, understanding as well as the space and place itself (Edensor, 2000). Other studies have specifically captured the sensory aspects of experience in activities such as cliff jumping (Laviolette, 2009) though they place less emphasis on the emergence of understanding.…”

A Companion to Sport

“…We learn social divisions, distinctions of gender, class and race, through our senses" (p. xi). Drawing inspiration from the recent affective and sensual turn in the social sciences and humanities, some action sports researchers are moving away from theory and toward more embodied forms of research (e.g., sensuous ethnography) in their attempts to better understand and explain experience ( Evers, 2004( Evers, , 2006( Evers, , 2010Ford and Brown, 2006 ;Laviolette, 2010 ;Saville, 2008 ;. Some scholars write critical auto-ethnographies and ethnographic fi ction to shed light on their own and others ' lived and embodied action sports experiences, and draw attention to the various forms of power operating within the culture ( Evers, 2006 ;.…”