Swimming in a contained space: Understanding the experience of indoor lap swimmers

Ward, M. D.

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.09.006

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“…Iveson () reconstructs a debate about the value of women's‐only bathing facilities in Sydney, Australia. Amidst this conflict, the sociality of swimming with others should not be forgotten (Adiv, ; Ward, ; Worpole, ). These issues are also entangled with issues of ownership and provision.…”

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Social infrastructure and the public life of cities: Studying urban sociality and public spaces

2019

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Libraries, laundrettes, and lidos. Pizzerias, plazas, and playgrounds. Sidewalks, swimming pools, and schools. These are just some of the kinds of spaces and facilities that contribute to the public life of cities. Drawing on the arguments of the sociologist Eric Klinenberg, this article develops the concept of “social infrastructure” as a way to research and value these kinds of spaces. Social infrastructure helps in recognising the public dimensions of often overlooked and undervalued spaces. It draws attention to the breadth, depth, and textures of sociality that can be afforded by different urban environments. In developing the concept of social infrastructure, this article pulls together four related strands of social scientific inquiry: work on infrastructure; publicness and public space; sociality and encounter; and the politics of provision. An infrastructural approach to the topic of public space presents geographers with some productive tools for understanding the public life of cities.

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Social infrastructure and the public life of cities: Studying urban sociality and public spaces

2019

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“…However, it was only through participating in this practice, through having my body and my practices conditioned by the routines of the Mixed Martial Artist, that I recognised that it was necessary to understand more about how life outside the gym shaped the maintenance of this practice. BothBrown (2016) andWard (2016), also in this issue, have highlighted the significance of performing the practice under study with participants as a way of staging more in-depth interviews with them afterwards.The carnal ethnography developed by Wacquant and adopted and adapted by others does not provide a full array of tools to be able to study the maintenance of this physical exercise practice within and in relation to other practices in everyday life. This is because they focus on a single practice, the martial art or combat sport under question itself.…”

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Maintaining physical exercise as a matter of synchronising practices: Experiences and observations from training in Mixed Martial Arts

Blue

2017

Health & Place

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This paper is concerned with the establishment, maintenance, and decline of physical exercise practices. Drawing on experiences and observations taken from a carnal ethnography and rhythmanalysis of the practices involved in training in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), I argue that maintaining this physical exercise practice is not straightforwardly an outcome of individual commitment, access to facilities, or the availability of free time. It rather depends on the synchronisation of practices: those of MMA, those that support MMA, and those that more broadly make up everyday life. This research suggests that increasing rates of physical activity might be better fostered through facilitating the integration of combinations of healthy activities into everyday life.

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“…Within a recent systematic review of therapeutic blue space interventions, swimming was all but absent, suggesting a mismatch between its established popularity and current research approaches (Britton, Kindermann, et al., 2018). A second strand has a more environmental health component (equally relevant to surfers), around water quality and health risks associated with exposure to polluted waters, indoor and outdoor, for leisure users (Foley, 2015; Leonard et al., 2018; Ward, 2017, 2017) and has used oral history research with Irish coastal swimmers to uncover the different ways older swimmers use sea swimming as a lifelong resource to manage physical and mental health. In the United Kingdom, recent research has explored specific trends such as “wild swimming” and informal swimming communities to propose renewed attention to the role of blue nature to health and well-being (Atkinson, 2019; Denton, 2018).…”

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Sensing Water: Uncovering Health and Well-Being in the Sea and Surf

Britton

Foley

2020

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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This article considers how different recreational users engage with and utilize blue spaces as health-enabling. Informed by empirical and participatory fieldwork with surfing and sea swimming groups, we explore embodied and emotional experiences while researching directly within blue space. Given a focus on health and well-being, we identify different dimensions of how surfers and swimmers narrate those experiences while directly immersed in water during a sport/recreational activity. Such questions resonate with geographical thinking around phenomenology, active relational geographies, embodiment, emotion, and sport and leisure practice. We use a broad health promotion or enabling spaces approach to capture different emotional and embodied accounts of immersions in blue space, recognizing that this capture is emergent in and from place.

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Swimming in a contained space: Understanding the experience of indoor lap swimmers

Cited by 12 publications

References 43 publications

Social infrastructure and the public life of cities: Studying urban sociality and public spaces

Social infrastructure and the public life of cities: Studying urban sociality and public spaces

Maintaining physical exercise as a matter of synchronising practices: Experiences and observations from training in Mixed Martial Arts

Sensing Water: Uncovering Health and Well-Being in the Sea and Surf

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