Places Through the Body

Nast, Heidi J.; Pile, Steve

doi:10.4324/9780203976531

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“…Consideration of the materiality, fluidity and performance of bodies has highlighted the relationship between space and embodiment-issues that are central to this paper. As Nast and Pile (1998) and others have observed, we experience ourselves in our bodies through contact with differing materialities, spaces and social contexts (cf. Latham & McCormack, 2004).…”

Section: Drinking and Embodiment: A Theoretical Turnmentioning

confidence: 92%

‘We’re stuck in the corner’: Young women, embodiment and drinking in the countryside

Leyshon

2008

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

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In this paper I extend our understanding of the ways in which young women in rural areas produce, negotiate and experience identity through an exploration of their drinking practices. Through a close ethnography of three groups of young women in the rural south west of England this paper shows how pubs, clubs, bedrooms and other informal spaces such as 'in the park' provide arenas of performance in which identities are constructed, negotiated and reproduced. In particular this paper explores the significance given by rural young women to their discursive drinking practices and the extent to which these practices lead to inclusionary and/or exclusionary experiences. Eschewing conventional notions of the body, by recognizing the body as malleable, porous and an unfinished product, subject to socially produced alteration, this paper teases apart the different lived experiences of rural young women by arguing that much of their behaviour in pub(lic) and private space(s) can be seen in terms of acts of spectacle, compliance and challenges to disciplinary frameworks. To illustrate this point I discuss how rural young women employ various embodied strategies to move between spaces to experiment with alcohol and alternative femininities and 'do' gender, thereby contesting acceptable rural gender roles and expectations. Through shedding light on drinking practices, I reveal how this experimentation affects their sense of their body, femininity and belonging in the countryside.

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Section: Drinking and Embodiment: A Theoretical Turnmentioning

confidence: 92%

‘We’re stuck in the corner’: Young women, embodiment and drinking in the countryside

Leyshon

2008

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

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“…First, this work emphasizes the ways in which broader social relations and discourses construct material bodies (see, for example, Nast and Pile, 1998;Valentine, 1999). Second, this work demonstrates how bodies are enrolled in the construction of social places and spaces and political economic processes (see, for example, Grosz, 1992;McDowell, 1993;Harrison, 2000).…”

Section: Ih Materials Ty and Resourcesmentioning

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Material worlds? Resource geographies and the `matter of nature'

Bakker

Bridge

2006

Progress in Human Geography

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Concepts of 'materiality are increasingly invoked in human geography. This paper discusses several recent and influential workings of materiality, and examines their implications for resource geographies. First, we identify a set of analytical questions at the heart of resource geography and characterize the dominant approaches to these questions -the 'production of nature and the 'social construction of nature'-as yielding diminishing returns. Second, we survey recent work on materiality relating to commodities, corporeality and hybridity and advance the claim that this work provides a number of fresh perspectives with which to revive resource geography. Third, we highlight three specific themes within this research: a radical redistribution and decentering of agency; a revitalization of the concept of 'construction'; and an acknowledgement of the political-economic implications that flow from a world that is biophysically heterogeneous. Finally, we draw on this analysis to explore how progress might be made in the conceptualization and empirical study of resources.

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“…This broad turn includes disability activists who foreground their embodied experiences of disability (Hughes, 2009); disability theorists who have diverse ways of rethinking the body and disability (Garland-Thomson, 2002;Gibson, 2006;Inahara, 2009;Marks, 1999;Shildrick and Price, 1996); and geographers who describe the co-production of bodies and spaces (Longhurst, 1995(Longhurst, , 1997Moss and Dyck, 2002;Nast and Pile, 1998). They argue that places need to be understood at least in part through the bodies that experience them (Edwards and Imrie, 2003;Imrie, 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%

Disability and Deleuze

2014

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Building on Deleuze's theories of the becoming of bodies, and notions of the geographic maturity of the disabled body we formulate an emplaced model of disability wherein bodies, social expectations and built form intersect in embodied experiences in specific environments to increase or decrease the capacity of disabled children to act in those environments. We join a growing effort to generate a more comprehensive model of disability, which moves beyond a binary between the individual and the social. Drawing on in-depth case studies conducted with 13 physically disabled children, we consider the intersections between their primary environments (homes, schools and neighbourhoods) and the multiple subjectivities they embody. Ultimately we make a case about the importance of responsive, situated models of subjectivity for the development of adaptations, and that physical and social adaptations must respond to these children's complex and varied needs and desires.

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Places Through the Body

Cited by 84 publications

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‘We’re stuck in the corner’: Young women, embodiment and drinking in the countryside

‘We’re stuck in the corner’: Young women, embodiment and drinking in the countryside

Material worlds? Resource geographies and the `matter of nature'

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