Spiritual landscapes: existence, performance and immanence

Dewsbury, John David; Cloke, Paul

doi:10.1080/14649360903068118

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“…This paper demonstrates that vitalist philosophies of the body and life provides the possibility to think about friendships as momentary attunements that open bodies to a material world of flows, connections and becomings. Bodies are conceptualised in terms of their affective materialities and intensities or their capacity to affect and be affected rather than in terms of their physical boundaries and the performative articulations of their identities (Dewsbury and Cloke, 2009;Manning and Massumi, 2014). Affects are worthy of attention because they have outcomes for what a body can do -circulating affects can either increase or decrease the capacity and power of differentiated bodies to act (Colebrook, 2011;de Spinoza, 2001;Deleuze and Parnet, 2006).…”

Section: Darwin: Creativity and Friendshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-framing the creative city: Fragile friendships and affective art spaces in Darwin, Australia

Lobo

2017

Urban Studies

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Australia has one of the most urbanised and diverse populations in the world, but there is little research that explores fleeting friendships between marginalised/racialised ethnic minority and indigenous populations. In contrast to metropolitan cities in white settler societies that have been the focus of much research, this paper focuses on the small, tropical city of Darwin in Northern Australia. This is a city that is at the centre of public debates on indigenous wellbeing, migrant integration and asylum seeker policies, with social welfare programmes that provide little opportunities for hopeful encounters among indigenous peoples and ethnic minority newcomers in surface spaces. I argue, however, that 'grass root' forms of creativity in an 'underground' car park bring their affective worlds together through a shared passion for art. The paper draws on gentle methodologies including participatory visual methods to privilege non-Western ways of inhabiting place. Through a 'quiet politics' and affective engagement with spacetimes both proximate and distant, the paper shows that it is possible to invoke different futures and crystallise experimental publics in the diverse city. The paper responds to a call to push the boundaries of urban research on social difference through geographies of friendship that are yet to engage with multisensory bodies, emotion, affect and art.

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Section: Darwin: Creativity and Friendshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-framing the creative city: Fragile friendships and affective art spaces in Darwin, Australia

Lobo

2017

Urban Studies

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“…The environmental volunteers experienced spiritual awareness through their physical labour and emotional engagement with particular sites. The environmental 'pilgrimage' of the volunteers to particular places can be expressed as a devotion to the site and the work performed there, which, in turn, leads to physical and mental well-being as well as a sense of achievement; an experience that allows for the "new imaginations" of one's place in the world (Dewsbury and Cloke 2009). This is echoed in a discussion of landscape and a phenomenology of lived experience and "bodily practice" that is performative (Wylie 2007, 186).…”

Section: Spirituality and Healing Placesmentioning

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Sacred Spaces, Healing Places: Therapeutic Landscapes of Spiritual Significance

Perriam

2014

J Med Humanit

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Understandings of the relationship between space, culture and belief are formative in the experience of seeking healing. This paper examines the relationship between place, healing and spirituality in the context of interdisciplinary perspectives (particularly those of the medical humanities) on healing and well-being. The paper examines places of spiritual significance and their relationship to healing in the 'uncertain' quest for alleviation or cure, exploring these thematics in the context of the work on the geographies of 'therapeutic landscapes.' Through a discussion of fieldwork at two sites in Perthshire, Scotland, a framework is proposed for the investigation of therapeutic sites of spiritual significance, detailing features such as connection, renewal, reproduction, participation, alleviation and expectation. A deeper examination of sites of healing with spiritual significance, it is proposed, has the potential to develop greater understandings of the ways in which people experience illness and well-being.

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“…Within this general genre, Dewsbury and Cloke (2009) explore the spiritual landscapes of Christianity, where they theorise 'the immaterial push of spirit alongside the materiality of landscape ' (ibid: 695). Yet any such landscape of extra-geographies remains surprisingly under-explored in relation to alternative spiritualities.…”

Section: Encountering Otherworlds: Participating In 'Extra-geographies'mentioning

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“…Our research needs to acknowledge this because it has consequences for those involved, and for how we imagine the world to be (Dewsbury and Cloke, 2009 (Hay and Nye, 2006. 72-73).…”

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Crossing Spiritual Boundaries: Encountering, Articulating and Representing Otherworlds

MacKian

2011

Methodological Innovations Online

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There is a growing critical social science literature around contemporary expressions of alternative spirituality. However, this literature appears to have overlooked a core feature of these spiritual experiences. For many contemporary alternative spiritual practitioners, spirit plays an active and ever present role in their everyday lives and relationships. However, the critical social science discourse has failed to adequately engage with this. Instead the dominant approach has been to suggest spirituality today is about a personal journey to the divine within, usually sustained by the purchase of widely available protean commodities such as crystals, Buddhas and weekend retreats. In this discourse the 'spirit' at the heart of spirituality has effectively been killed. It is my belief that this is in part a reflection of the inability of social science to encounter, articulate and represent such otherworldliness. Based on my experiences of participatory fieldwork with individuals and groups engaged in a wide range of spiritual practices, I suggest critical social science needs to be able to engage with the enchanted worlds which arise out of many contemporary spiritual experiences with respect, sensitivity and a little creativity. These practitioners are actively seeking connections between 'this' world and 'otherworlds' and it is time for critical social science to acknowledge the 'extra-geographies' that arise out of this. In this paper I reflect upon the methodological implications of this, and present a conceptual framework which might help us to articulate and represent the spatialities of these very enchanted spiritualities.

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Spiritual landscapes: existence, performance and immanence

Cited by 102 publications

References 13 publications

Re-framing the creative city: Fragile friendships and affective art spaces in Darwin, Australia

Re-framing the creative city: Fragile friendships and affective art spaces in Darwin, Australia

Sacred Spaces, Healing Places: Therapeutic Landscapes of Spiritual Significance

Crossing Spiritual Boundaries: Encountering, Articulating and Representing Otherworlds

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