Sensual, Sensory and Sensational Narratives

lisahunter, Lisa Hunter; Emerald, Elke

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-1579-3_7

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“…38 Whereas the senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch are modes to provide knowledge about our external environment, other senses such as the sense of pain, the sense of our own muscles and organs, our senses of balance, movement, temperature, time, etc. give us access to the internal world 39 (compare with Hunter and Emerald 40 ). Nevertheless, sensory experiences are intermingled with one another as well as with emotions, meanings and memories.…”

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‘This really takes it out of you!’ The senses and emotions in digital health practices of the elderly

Urban

2017

DIGITAL HEALTH

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Wearables, fitness apps and home-based monitoring technology designed to help manage chronic diseases are generally considered in terms of their effectiveness in saving costs and improving the health care system. This article looks, instead, at the digital health practices of persons older than 65 years; it considers their actual health practices, their senses and emotions. In a qualitative study 27 elderly persons were interviewed about their digital health practices and accompanied while using the devices. The findings show that digital technologies and ageing bodies are co-productive in performing specific modes of health and the ageing process. The study shows that digital technologies not only encourage the elderly to remain physically active and enable them to age in place, but also that the use of these technologies causes the elderly to develop negative emotions that stand in a charged relationship to ageing stereotypes. Thereby, the sense of seeing has been place in pole position, while the faculty for introspection declines. This means that age-related impaired vision can result in particularly severe consequences. In the discussion it is debated in which concrete ways that digital health technologies have had a negative impact. The sociotechnical practices associated with wearables conform to the primacy of preventing ageing; passive and active monitoring technologies appear as subsystems of risk estimation, which in turn regulates diverse practices. The conclusion highlights the interrelation between notions of successful ageing and the digital practices of the elderly.

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‘This really takes it out of you!’ The senses and emotions in digital health practices of the elderly

Urban

2017

DIGITAL HEALTH

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“…An important discussion that arises out of the sensual geographies literature questions how best to capture and communicate the ways in which we are entangled in and through the places and communities in which we live-because this highlights that we are embodied beings that encounter and interact through the senses with our everyday world. Rethinking methodological approaches so as to explore the everyday through the senses is not new; the work of feminist, postcolonial, and indigenous scholars, as well as in those working in the creative arts, has challenged long-held assumptions about how we conceptualize and communicate knowledge about the world (Chilisa, 2012;GibsonGraham, 1994;lisahunter & Emerald, 2016;Rose, 1993;Schwan & Lightman, 2015;Smith, 1999). Longhurst, Ho, and Johnston (2008) have strongly suggested that researchers use their bodies as "instruments of research " (p. 215).…”

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Engaging the Senses to Explore Community Events

Duffy¹,

Mair²

2018

Event Management

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Community events are often staged by local authorities as a way to boost the local economy, improve social cohesion, and foster a sense of belonging. However, although it is arguably comparatively straightforward to conceptualize how events may contribute in terms of economic impact, it is much more difficult to understand and assess how events can contribute to feelings of connectedness and belonging. To date the focus in the event management literature has been very strongly focused on what people think of events; this study instead draws our attention to what people do and how this may provide clues as to how they feel in terms of engagement. Recent studies in tourism, geography, and urban studies have started to explore the role the senses play in our engagement and participation in events. Turning to the senses as a means to explore our bodily engagement with an event provides an opportunity to examine inclusion and exclusion at an event from a new perspective. This article takes an interdisciplinary ethnographic approach to examine a case study of community and the Noosa Jazz Festival in Australia. Findings suggest that festivals, through their embodied participants, can facilitate feelings of inclusion in a community. Sound, vision, and the festival ambience emerged as being of key importance. The research demonstrates the benefits of interdisciplinary research, particularly drawing from sensual geographies, when exploring intangible constructs such as connectedness, inclusion, cohesion, and belonging.

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Can I Kiss a Child? Balancing Between Different Views of Touch in Early Childhood Educators’ Work

Keränen

Uitto

2021

Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research

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Sensual, Sensory and Sensational Narratives

Cited by 4 publications

References 39 publications

‘This really takes it out of you!’ The senses and emotions in digital health practices of the elderly

‘This really takes it out of you!’ The senses and emotions in digital health practices of the elderly

Engaging the Senses to Explore Community Events

Can I Kiss a Child? Balancing Between Different Views of Touch in Early Childhood Educators’ Work

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