Immersive encounters: video, swimming and wellbeing

Bates, Charlotte; Moles, Kate

doi:10.1080/1472586x.2021.1884499

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“…Rather than us opting for asynchronous or sequential methods such as video diaries (see C. Bates, 2013; C. Bates & Moles, 2021; Pink et al, 2015), this body of work directed our modification planning toward real-time and mobile video possibilities where the ‘tour’ style of ethnographic interview and a simple hands-on map-making activity might still work.…”

Section: The Video-call Home Visitmentioning

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“…Projects directed at understanding people's conceptualisations of (im)mobilities (Büscher & Urry, 2009;Murray, 2009) also became newly significant in the context of COVID lockdown. Rather than us opting for asynchronous or sequential methods such as video diaries (see C. Bates, 2013;C. Bates & Moles, 2021;Pink et al, 2015), this body of work directed our modification planning toward real-time and mobile video possibilities where the 'tour' style of ethnographic interview and a simple hands-on map-making activity might still work.…”

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Remote Fieldwork in Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Video-Call Ethnography and Map Drawing Methods

Watson

Lupton

2022

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Restrictions on physical movements and in-person encounters during the COVID-19 crisis confronted many qualitative researchers with challenges in conducting and completing projects requiring face-to-face fieldwork. An exploration of engaging in what we term ‘agile research’ in such circumstances can offer novel methodological insights for researching the social world. In this article, we discuss the changes we made to our ethnographic fieldwork in response to the introduction of a national lockdown to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. The ‘Living with Personal Data’ project, based in Sydney, Australia, and designed well before the advent of COVID-19, explores a diverse range of people’s feelings, practices and understandings concerning home-based digital devices and the personal digital data generated with their use. Using a video ethnography ‘home tour’ and an elicitation technique involving hand-drawn maps of people’s homes, digital devices and the personal data generated with and through these devices, this approach was designed to elicit the sensory, affective and relational elements of people’s digital device and personal data use at home. The fieldwork had just commenced when stay-at-home and physical distancing orders were suddenly introduced. Our article builds on and extends a growing body of literature on conducting fieldwork in the difficult conditions of the extended COVID-19 crisis by detailing our experiences of very quickly converting an ethnographic study that was planned to be in-person to a remote approach. We describe the adaptations we made to the project using video-call software and discuss the limits and opportunities presented by this significant modification.

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Remote Fieldwork in Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Video-Call Ethnography and Map Drawing Methods

Watson

Lupton

2022

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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“…We worked closely with a group of 30 women aged between 20 and 80 living around the UK, and met many more (including some male swimmers) during the course of the project. While much of the research has unfolded remotely during the pandemic, we have tried to hold onto the immersive focus of the project and adapt our in-situ methods (Bates and Moles, 2021;Shareck et al, 2021) to hear and tell stories from the water. As Ash Watson and Deborah Lupton (2022) write, 'agile methods' can offer novel methodological insights in a pandemic world, and sensory, affective and relational elements can be researched from a distance.…”

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Bobbing in the park: wild swimming, conviviality and belonging

Bates

Moles

2022

Leisure Studies

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With swimming pools and lidos closed during the pandemic, the number of people dipping their toes in rivers, lakes and seas and swimming wild has swelled. In this paper, we reflect on the ways in which swimmers living in cities have found ways of immersing themselves, and how they have forged new friendships and communities in the water. Drawing on conversations with swimmers at a lake in an urban park and focusing on small and embodied everyday social interactions, from flashes of nudity to recognition between strangers, we explore how the opening -and temporary closures -of the lake have sparked convivial moments and how swimming reconfigures urban public space. Within this paper we engage with ideas of belonging and becoming. We think about absence and exclusion flowing alongside belonging and conviviality, and reflect on what that means for our understandings of leisure spaces, urban publics and bodies. We suggest that the power of wild swimming to restore, refresh and bring people together can also revive our ideas about the place of water and wilderness in cities, while also drawing attention to enduring and pervasive inequalities.

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“…Originally, we intended to work primarily with video, using versatile and waterproof GoPro action cameras to record embodied and multisensory experiences of swimming and gather instantaneous and personal accounts of what it means to swim outdoors (Bates & Moles, 2023). But pandemic restrictions and lockdowns meant that our opportunities to travel with the GoPro were limited, and not all of our participants were comfortable working with the cameras on their own, or even at all.…”

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Animating sociology

Bates

Moles

Kroese³

2023

The Sociological Review

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This article outlines the collaborative process of making a watercolour animation drawn from research with women who swim wild in rivers, lakes and seas. Discussing graphic storytelling in sociology, anthropology and related disciplines, we share our experiences of creative collaboration, describing in detail the practical process of making a research-led animation to share with the wider swimming community and situating the project within a larger discussion of graphic and public ethnography, live methods and the possibilities of representation. The article contributes to the ways we can make methods lively and shows how we can both literally and metaphorically animate sociology.

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Immersive encounters: video, swimming and wellbeing

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Cited by 12 publications

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Remote Fieldwork in Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Video-Call Ethnography and Map Drawing Methods

Remote Fieldwork in Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Video-Call Ethnography and Map Drawing Methods

Bobbing in the park: wild swimming, conviviality and belonging

Animating sociology

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