Personal Space, Crowding, and Spatial Behavior in a Cultural Context

Aiello, John R.; Thompson, Donna E.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-0451-5_5

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“…Subsequent research studies have supported Hall's [14] qualitative observations that Latin Americans prefer closer social interaction distances than individuals from North America or Northern Europe (e.g., [13,[16][17][18]). Further, Freedman [19] claimed that " [w]hites in the United States, Canada and England stand far apart, Europeans stand somewhat closer and South Americans stand closer still" (p. 72).…”

Section: Physical Contact In Latin Contextsmentioning

confidence: 74%

Exploring Touch in Physical Education Practicum in a Touchy Latin Culture

2018

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Abstract:The decrease in touch has been explored in recent literature in relation to child protection discourses and no touch policies and it has been suggested that Physical Education (PE) has been weakened by the lack of touch. Significantly, the issue of touch has remained largely unexplored in Latin societies, which are characterised by an amplified tactile approach to people and comparatively little personal space. This paper examines how a group of pre-service PE teachers in Spain responded to, acted and negotiated touch with primary school students. It draws on data generated from body journals and the concepts of risk society, surveillance and moral panic. The findings indicate that touching school students is still common practice in Spain and was considered something positive. The influence of other individuals and certain spaces was also noted by participants, who felt more surveilled and distressed on particular occasions and some of them strategically introduced touch with students in a progressive manner. The results of the study invite us to reflect on the possibility of doing more harm than good by presenting topics about touch to pre-service teachers and how pre-service teacher educators may need to provide PE students with proper resources and understandings to successfully negotiate touch with school students.

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Section: Physical Contact In Latin Contextsmentioning

confidence: 74%

Exploring Touch in Physical Education Practicum in a Touchy Latin Culture

2018

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“…4). Other researchers have observed that women tend to feel more territorial about their residences than men, however (Van der Ryn and Silverstein 1972: 375;Aiello and Thompson 1980;Goves and Hughes 1983).…”

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confidence: 94%

“…Environmental psychology is the scientific study of the dynamic relationship between human behavior and the physical environment, with an emphasis on psychological variables. Environmental psychologists see territoriality-the proc~ss of claiming and marking a particular space for a given amount of time....:....as a basic human behavior (Hall 1959;Altman 1975;Proshansky, Ittelson, and Rivlin 1976 Aiello and Thompson 1980;Rapoport 1980;Gauvain, Altman, and Fahim 1983).…”

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An Archaeological Analysis of Spatial Patterning in College Dormitory Rooms

Garvin-Jackson

1993

NEHA

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“…Social and consultative spaces are spaces in which people feel comfortable conducting routine social interactions with acquaintances as well as strangers, whereas public space is defined as the distance beyond, in which people perceive interactions as impersonal and relatively anonymous. However, this typology is a rather static approach to interpersonal distance, and it might be more useful to conceptualise Hall's spaces as a continuum, as proposed by several authors (e.g., Aiello, Thompson 1980). Studies in environmental psychology suggest some interesting physical determinants of interpersonal spacing.…”

Section: Caves and Bodiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

What can bodies do? Bodies and caves in the Karst Neolithic

Mlekuž

2011

Doc. praeh.

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This paper discuses ways in which bodies – human and animal – were produced in the Neolithic of the Karst. Bodies are seen as cumulative processes shaped by forces of encounters with the material world, rather than as biological givens. Thus, the paper focuses on the process of embodiment mediated with other bodies and landscape, especially important places such as caves. It explores the unique ways in which caves affect bodies, and how these affected bodies created new societies. In the Neolithic Karst, everyday contacts and interactions between humans, animals, the landscape and caves and rock shelters profoundly changed all the participants. A new hybrid society emerged, consisting of human and non-human bodies.

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Personal Space, Crowding, and Spatial Behavior in a Cultural Context

Cited by 41 publications

References 86 publications

Exploring Touch in Physical Education Practicum in a Touchy Latin Culture

Exploring Touch in Physical Education Practicum in a Touchy Latin Culture

An Archaeological Analysis of Spatial Patterning in College Dormitory Rooms

What can bodies do? Bodies and caves in the Karst Neolithic

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