Habit Today: Ravaisson, Bergson, Deleuze and Us

Grosz, Elizabeth

doi:10.1177/1357034x12472544

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“…Pitt (2014) has argued for emplacing therapeutic flow experiences by considering how socio-spatial processes influence an individual’s ability to become absorbed in an activity. Similarly, my study suggests that creatively planning and developing shared spaces in the built environment may encourage habit’s “fundamentally creative capacity” that opens up the possibility for stability in a constantly changing world (Grosz 2013, 219).…”

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Finding joy in poor health: The leisure-scapes of chronic illness

McQuoid

2017

Social Science & Medicine

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Globally, increasing numbers of people face the challenge of enjoying life while living with long-term illness. Little research addresses leisure participation for people with chronic illness despite its links with mental and physical health and self-rated quality of life. I use a space-time geographical approach to explore experiences with leisure in everyday life for 26 individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in Australia. I examine ways in which the spatial and temporal characteristics of illness management and symptoms shape where, when, and how participants can enjoy leisure, focusing on: 1) logistical conflicts between illness and leisure; 2) rhythmic interferences with the force of habit in skilful leisure performance; and 3) absorbing experiences of encounter with self and place through leisure. Data were collected from 2013 to 2014. Participants kept diaries over two sample days and then participated in semi-structured interviews. Findings show that the voluntary nature of leisure offered participants important benefits in coping with and managing illness over the long-term, including opportunities to experience greater sense of control, an alternative experience of one’s body to the ‘sick body’, and knowledge creation that supports adaptation to the uncertainties of illness trajectories. The ability to engage in meaningful leisure was constrained by the shaping forces of illness symptoms and management on participants’ leisure-scapes. Illness treatment regimens should therefore be adapted to better accommodate leisure participation for chronically ill patients, and leisure should be explicitly incorporated into illness management plans negotiated between patients and health practitioners. Finally, greater understanding of the transformative capacity of habit in activities of experimentation and play may have wider-reaching implications for leisure’s potential applications in public health. Leisure should be taken seriously as a vehicle for enhancing wellbeing and adaptation to life with long-term illness.

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“…Further engagement with the concept of habit (Grosz 2013) could deepen our understanding of the value of places for leisure for those living with chronic illness. Work on therapeutic landscapes (Gesler 1992) has investigated how places can be experienced as healing and health-enhancing.…”

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Finding joy in poor health: The leisure-scapes of chronic illness

McQuoid

2017

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Finally, insights into relationships between everyday contexts and the routines and practices of care are found in the caringscape/carescape framework (Mckie et al, 2002, Bowlby, 2012). Caringscape refers to “individuals’ organisation of their caring activities in time-space,” while carescape refers to “the resource and service context shaping the ‘caringscape terrain’” (Bowlby, 2012, p. 2112).…”

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Contextualising renal patient routines: Everyday space-time contexts, health service access, and wellbeing

McQuoid

Jowsey

Talaulikar

2017

Social Science & Medicine

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Stable routines are key to successful illness self-management for the growing number of people living with chronic illness around the world. Yet, the influence of chronically ill individuals’ everyday contexts in supporting routines is poorly understood. This paper takes a space-time geographical approach to explore the everyday space-time contexts and routines of individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD). We ask: what is the relationship between renal patients’ space-time contexts and their ability to establish and maintain stable routines, and, what role does health service access play in this regard? We draw from a qualitative case study of 26 individuals with CKD in Australia. Data comprised self-reported two day participant diaries and semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis of interview transcripts was guided by an inductive-deductive approach. We examined the embeddedness of routines within the space-time contexts of participants’ everyday lives. We found that participants’ everyday space-time contexts were highly complex, especially for those receiving dialysis and/or employed, making routines difficult to establish and vulnerable to disruption. Health service access helped shape participants’ everyday space-time contexts, meaning that incidences of unpredictability in accessing health services set-off ‘ripple effects’ within participants’ space-time contexts, disrupting routines and making everyday life negotiation more difficult. The ability to absorb ripple effects from unpredictable health services without disrupting routines varied by space-time context. Implications of these findings for the deployment of the concept of routine in health research, the framing of patient success in self-managing illness, and health services design are discussed. In conclusion, efforts to understand and support individuals in establishing and maintaining routines that support health and wellbeing can benefit from approaches that contextualise and de-centre everyday human behaviour. Opportunities to support renal patients in managing illness and experiencing wellbeing outside the clinical setting lie in a space-time re-design of chronic care services.

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“…For clarity, Invisibilia is here taken to be an instance of new materialist popular culture, and whilst Ravaissonian philosophy has influenced the philosophical work of Bergson (see Bergson [1904] 2007) the work of both men contributes to the continental philosophical impetus of the new materialisms (see, e.g. Dolphijn and van der Tuin 2011;Grosz 2013).…”

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