Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World

Oxley, Rebecca; Russell, Andrew J.

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“…Relatedly, as one of Nettleton's (2015: 773) fell runners noted of running on moor and mountain, this often requires us to “work with the land.” We must also “work with” air in our elemental encounters, as we describe below, and as has been so well highlighted in a special issue of the journal Body & Society on breath, breathing, and breath studies (e.g. Macnaughton, 2020; Oxley and Russell, 2020). First, we consider the theoretical framework utilized in conceptualizing our mind–body–world encounters.…”

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Earth(l)y pleasures and air-borne bodies: Elemental haptics in women's cross-country running

Allen‐Collinson

Jackman

2021

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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A rich and multi-stranded sociology of sporting embodiment has begun to emerge in recent years. Calls have been made to analyze more deeply not only the sensory dimensions of lived sporting bodies but also the values prevailing within particular physical–cultural worlds. This article contributes to a small, developing research corpus by employing theoretical perspectives drawn from phenomenological sociology to explore cross-country runners' sensory encounters with the elemental, contoured by the values of the running lifeworlds they inhabit. Autoethnographic and autophenomenographic data were collected via three research projects. Senses of touch still remain under-researched within the sporting sensorium, and here we focus on the “elemental haptics” of earth and air on our cross-country training runs. We also explore the rich, complex somatic experiences afforded by various of these elemental combinations. For runners, as for many sports participants, the haptic emerges as a key aspect of our sensuous running lifeworld.

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Earth(l)y pleasures and air-borne bodies: Elemental haptics in women's cross-country running

Allen‐Collinson

Jackman

2021

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…Life today is “marked by an asthmatic quality that is both figurative and literal” such that “breath, air, and atmosphere serve as concrete problems and as concept guides” (Ahmann and Kenner 2020:418). A broad intellectual interest in breath and air is evident in several recent special issues: “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body, and World” in Body and Society (Oxley and Russell 2020); “Just Air?” forthcoming in Environment and Planning C ; and “Breathing Late Industrialism” in Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (Ahmann and Kenner 2020). Much of this recent attention to breath and air is specifically in relation to racism.…”

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Particulate Matters: Trump EPA Deregulatory Science, Fossil Fuels, and Racist Regimes of Breathing

Mansfield

2022

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Particulate matter (a key contributor to poor air quality) was central to the most far‐reaching deregulatory actions of the Trump EPA and as such became a key mechanism through which fossil fuels saturate and racialise deregulatory knowledge. This article introduces particulate matter as a problem of fossil fuel combustion and leading cause of death that—given well‐known racial disparities in exposure—is at the heart of today’s racist politics of breathing. It then traces particulate matter through the Trump EPA’s efforts to remake regulatory science, including through expansive measures not directly about air quality. It is not just that particulate matter is an effect of deregulation but that it served as a mechanism for a wider deregulatory apparatus. The article then elaborates on the significance of particulate matter in the suffocating nature of racism to argue that these actions entrench racist calculations of whose lives matter within the EPA’s regulatory apparatus.

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“…Similarly, perhaps because of an assumption that ARTs are aimed at women who have ‘delayed’ childbirth, which itself reflects a particular way of thinking about ‘planned’ reproduction, there is little attention paid to secondary infertility. There is also little work as yet on the increasing presence of digital technologies in the reproductive process, from online platforms for information and services to social media and apps (though see Hamper 2020 for emerging work in this area).…”

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Adjusting the analytical aperture: propositions for an integrated approach to the social study of reproductive technologies

Boydell

Dow

2021

BioSocieties

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The ever-expanding availability of reproductive technologies, the continued roll-out of ‘family planning’ and maternity services across low- and middle-income settings and the rapid development of the fertility industry mean that it is more likely than ever that individuals, especially women and gender non-conforming people, will engage with more than one RT at some point in their life. These multiple engagements with RTs will affect users’ expectations and uptake, as well as the technologies’ availability, commercial success, ethical status and social meanings. We argue that an integrated approach to the study of RTs and their users not only makes for better research, but also more politically conscious research, which questions some of the ideological precepts that have led to reproduction being parcelled out into biomedical specialisations and a disproportionate focus on particular forms of reproduction in particular disciplines within public health and social science research. We offer this article as part of a wider movement in the study of reproduction and reproductive technologies, which takes inspiration from the reproductive justice framework to address forms of exclusion, discrimination and stratification that are perpetuated in the development and application of reproductive technologies and the ways in which they are studied and theorised.

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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World

Cited by 27 publications

References 46 publications

Earth(l)y pleasures and air-borne bodies: Elemental haptics in women's cross-country running

Earth(l)y pleasures and air-borne bodies: Elemental haptics in women's cross-country running

Particulate Matters: Trump EPA Deregulatory Science, Fossil Fuels, and Racist Regimes of Breathing

Adjusting the analytical aperture: propositions for an integrated approach to the social study of reproductive technologies

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