Thinking Through the Body, Educating for the Humanities: A Plea for Somaesthetics

Shusterman, Richard

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“…Instead, she experiences the opposite: comfort and harmony. There is also a growing field that investigates the practice of body awareness with the help of methods such as Feldenkrais and Alexander technique (see e.g., Shusterman, 2006Shusterman, , 2008 The awareness practiced in these kind of methods, aiming for an improved functioning of the person as an integrated whole, cannot be thought of as an objectification of the body even though bodily experiences (sensations as well as kinaesthetic experiences) are explicitly thematized.…”

Section: Applied Phenomenologymentioning

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Beyond the absent body—A phenomenological contribution to the understanding of body awareness in health and illness

Dahlberg

2019

Nursing Philosophy

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Starting from a phenomenological understanding of the body, this article discusses the understanding of body awareness in health and illness. I question the common way to understand our relationship to our bodies in terms of subjective and objective perspectives on it, and furthermore, how this opposition has been used in the phenomenological literature to outline an understanding of health and illness as states where the body stays unnoticed versus resurfaces to our attention as dysfunctional. Using examples from an ongoing interview study, I argue for an understanding of the dialectical interplay between body and world in our awareness, and how it can be understood as an approaching or distancing movement to body and world. I furthermore describe how the interplay between body and world effects and is effected by our existence in health and illness. Finally, I suggest what implications this new way of understanding the lived body has for health care practice in general, and for the development of a person‐centred care in particular. I suggest that we leave the dichotomous understanding of subjective and objective perspectives behind, and start to investigate how we move between different kinds of body awareness in health and illness. Illness, as a situation where that which has been taken for granted becomes questioned, can be said to be characterized by mistrust, and by a distancing from world and body. It is thus of importance for caregivers to provide the time, space and trusting atmosphere needed in order to make the approaching movement possible.

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Section: Applied Phenomenologymentioning

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Beyond the absent body—A phenomenological contribution to the understanding of body awareness in health and illness

Dahlberg

2019

Nursing Philosophy

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“…Entire ideologies of domination can thus be covertly materialized and preserved by encoding them in somatic norms that, as bodily habits, typically get taken for granted and therefore escape critical consciousness. (Shusterman , 303)…”

Section: Embodying Differencementioning

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Embodying Authenticity in Higher Education

Douglass

2016

New Drctns for Teach & Learn

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“…Archetypal in this domain are disciplines such as Feldenkrais or Tai Chi (Shusterman, 2006(Shusterman, , 2008. In HCI, research programs with an arts and performance background have presented diverse techniques for bodily awareness and facilitation of the felt experience so as to inform design in embodied ways.…”

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2016

Human Technology

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Human Technology is an interdisciplinary, scholarly journal publishing innovative, peer-reviewed articles exploring the issues and challenges within human-technology interaction and the human role in all areas of our ICT-infused societies.Human Technology, published by the Agora Center, University of Jyväskylä, is distributed without a charge online. ISSN: 1795-6889 www.humantechnology.jyu.fi Volume 12(2), November 2016, 103-104 103From the Publisher CHANGE IN HUMAN TECHNOLOGY'S PUBLISHER: CONTINUED FOCUS ON OPEN ACCESS HUMAN-TECHNOLOGY RESEARCHThe Human Technology journal will begin a new chapter in its publishing life on January 1, 2017. On that date, the responsibility for publishing the journal will transfer to the new Open Science Center at the University of Jyväskylä, an organization currently in development in which one division will oversee the ongoing support of open access publishing at the university. This change is necessitated by the university's decision to close the Agora Center, the interdisciplinary research unit that initiated and supported the journal from its inception. Despite the Agora Center's focus on the phenomena in contemporary society where humans were impacted or facilitated by technology, its international networks of like-minded colleagues, and its commitment to quality interdisciplinary research, the research unit has been deemed unnecessary in the new university structure. As the university's rector indicated in his public announcement in April 2016, it is his belief that this research should be part of the mission of every faculty of the university, and thus the university as a whole. The rector also indicated that the international, open access journal Human Technology was valuable not only to the university but to the scientific community. We are pleased that the current editor in chief, Dr. Pertti Hurme, has agreed to extend his editorship until we bring in a new editor in chief next year. Our long-serving managing editor, Barbara Crawford, M.A., also will continue with the journal. Our international editorial board also will remain active in their work in advancing the mission of the journal. We do not anticipate that the daily operations of the journal will be affected, and, we hope, will be improved by the journal's inclusion in the publications area of the Open Science Center. We are currently negotiating with the administration of the Open Science Center to establish an interdisciplinary publisher's board to maintain and enhance the scientific expertise so essential for a growing journal. We are confident that this will be achieved and the journal can continue to reach new audiences as authors and readers and to continue to advance research in this essential field of human-technology.At this time, I would like to publically acknowledge the long-term expertise and guidance of Dr. Päivi Fadjukoff, currently the director of planning and development for the Agora Center, who has wisely and graciously overseen the role of the publisher in these last 13 years of our jour...

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Thinking Through the Body, Educating for the Humanities: A Plea for Somaesthetics

Cited by 49 publications

References 14 publications

Beyond the absent body—A phenomenological contribution to the understanding of body awareness in health and illness

Beyond the absent body—A phenomenological contribution to the understanding of body awareness in health and illness

Embodying Authenticity in Higher Education

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