The Aesthetics of Urban Movement: Habits, Mobility, and Resistance

Sharpe, Scott

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“…Why would someone facing so many challenges and risks to their health constantly pursue the incorporation of “the knife-edge of fear” (Sharpe 2013, 170) into their hobbies? Arguably, Brian becomes more practised in handling fear and uncertainty via the anaesthetising effects of habit through increasingly challenging leisure activities.…”

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“…He relates with his body in negotiating “the border between ease and resistance” (Sharpe 2013, 171) as he balances the pleasures of mastery and flow with the effort to maintain control of the speeding bike.…”

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“…These activities are valuable, not just for granting opportunities to passively experience pleasure, but for being able to voluntarily engage in a challenge and to experience a heightened awareness of oneself in relating with the world (Sharpe 2013). Cathy’s decision to apply to be a baking judge was motivated by her desire to turn the tables on her illness which for too long had been “throwing” her challenges not of her “own choosing”, as she put it.…”

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Finding joy in poor health: The leisure-scapes of chronic illness

McQuoid

2017

Social Science & Medicine

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Globally, increasing numbers of people face the challenge of enjoying life while living with long-term illness. Little research addresses leisure participation for people with chronic illness despite its links with mental and physical health and self-rated quality of life. I use a space-time geographical approach to explore experiences with leisure in everyday life for 26 individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in Australia. I examine ways in which the spatial and temporal characteristics of illness management and symptoms shape where, when, and how participants can enjoy leisure, focusing on: 1) logistical conflicts between illness and leisure; 2) rhythmic interferences with the force of habit in skilful leisure performance; and 3) absorbing experiences of encounter with self and place through leisure. Data were collected from 2013 to 2014. Participants kept diaries over two sample days and then participated in semi-structured interviews. Findings show that the voluntary nature of leisure offered participants important benefits in coping with and managing illness over the long-term, including opportunities to experience greater sense of control, an alternative experience of one’s body to the ‘sick body’, and knowledge creation that supports adaptation to the uncertainties of illness trajectories. The ability to engage in meaningful leisure was constrained by the shaping forces of illness symptoms and management on participants’ leisure-scapes. Illness treatment regimens should therefore be adapted to better accommodate leisure participation for chronically ill patients, and leisure should be explicitly incorporated into illness management plans negotiated between patients and health practitioners. Finally, greater understanding of the transformative capacity of habit in activities of experimentation and play may have wider-reaching implications for leisure’s potential applications in public health. Leisure should be taken seriously as a vehicle for enhancing wellbeing and adaptation to life with long-term illness.

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2017

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“…The words and phrases that dance through inner speech have a habitual presence seemingly sustained by their own momentum. Where some have highlighted the capacity of habit to refine and perfect bodily movements (Sharpe, 2013), the 'habitual presence' of these words has a much more volatile effect because of their capacity to nibble and gnaw in agitating and unnerving ways. Goodman's description of the sometimes virulent character of sounds against which bodies are defenceless is pertinent here.…”

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How environments speak: everyday mobilities, impersonal speech and the geographies of commentary

Bissell

2014

Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper examines commentary as a mode of speaking that has not received sufficient attention by social and cultural geographers. In contrast to a representational understanding of commentary, where commentary is the expert interpretation of an environment, this paper develops a more passive understanding of commentary where the commentator is a figure through which the affective, material forces that constitute environments become expressed. Based on qualitative fieldwork in Sydney, Australia, the paper examines three modes of everyday commentary related to commuting. The commentaries of reportage, anecdote and autoventriloquy each demonstrate in different ways how the affective, material environments of commuting become spoken. The paper shows, first, how commentary is a constitutive rather than derivative aspect of the experience of commuting. Second, it shows that commentary is an expression of affective, material environments, rather than either the willed self-expression of the speaker, or the manifestation of socially and historically contingent discourses. Third, it shows that commentary can both close down and draw out specific affective, material environments. Fourth, it shows how commentary modulates the powers of existence in the zone of the commute, transforming the affective possibilities immanent to different situations. Comment les environnements parlent: déplacements quotidiens, discours impersonnel et les géographies de commentaireCet article examine le commentaire en tant que mode d'expression qui n'a pas rec u d'attention suffisante de la part des géographes sociaux et culturels. En contraste avec une perception représentative du commentaire, où le commentaire est l'interprétation experte d'un environnement, cet article développe une compréhension plus passive du commentaire, où le commentateur est une figure à travers qui s'expriment les forces affectives et matérielles que constituent les environnements. Basé sur un travail qualitatif sur le terrain à Sydney, en Australie, l'article examine trois modes de commentaire quotidien en rapport avec le déplacement pendulaire. Les commentaires de reportage, anecdote et autoventriloquie démontrent tous de différentes fac ons comment s'expriment les environnements affectifs et matériels du déplacement pendulaire. L'article démontre comment d'abord, le commentaire est un aspect constitutif plutô t que dérivatif de l'expérience de déplacement pendulaire. Deuxièmement, il démontre que le commentaire est une expression des environnements affectifs et matériels plutôt que soit, l'auto-expression voulue du locuteur ou soit, la manifestation de discours socialement et historiquement contingents. Troisième-ment, il démontre que le commentaire peut à la fois fermer ou encourager des environnements spécifiques affectifs ou matériels. Quatrièmement, il démontre que le commentaire module les pouvoirs d'existence dans la zone de déplacement pendulaire, transformant les possibilités affectives immanentes à diverses situations.Mots-clés: mobilités; vie quotidienne...

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“…Others view parkour as a simultaneous mobile and perceptual engagement with the urban terrain. Similar studies frame parkour as a subversion of the repetition inherent in modern life, as a way of re-engaging arbitrary and often capricious habits to reclaim more purposeful actions (Sharpe, 2013). Still others have shown parkour as a form of resistance that appropriates the body from constrained experiences of, and ways of moving in, urban space (Lemos, 2010;Atkinson, 2009;Fuggle, 2008a;Thompson, 2008;Mould, 2009;Daskalaki et al, 2008).…”

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The Aesthetics of Urban Movement: Habits, Mobility, and Resistance

Cited by 31 publications

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Finding joy in poor health: The leisure-scapes of chronic illness

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How environments speak: everyday mobilities, impersonal speech and the geographies of commentary

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