Touching Space, Placing Touch
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-25349-0 (ISBN)
The goal of this edited collection, Touching Space, Placing Touch is twofold:
1. To further advance theoretical and empirical understanding of touch in social science scholarship by focussing on the differential social and cultural meanings of touching and the places of touch.
2. To develop a multi-faceted and interdisciplinary explanations of touch in terms of individual and social life, personal experiences and tasks, and their related cultural contexts.
The twelve essays in this volume provide a rich combination of theoretical resources, methodological approaches and empirical investigation. Each chapter takes a distinct aspect of touch within a particular spatial context, exploring this through a mixture of sustained empirical work, critical theories of embodiment, philosophical and psychoanalytic approaches to gendered touch and touching, or the relationship between visual and non-visual culture, to articulate something of the variety and variability of touching experiences. The contributors are a mixture of established and emerging researchers within a growing interdisciplinary field of scholarship, yet the volume has a strong thematic identity and therefore represents the formative collection concerning the multiple senses of touch within social science scholarship at this time.
Mark Paterson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Martin Dodge is a Professor in Human Geography at the University of Manchester, UK.
Introduction: placing touch within social theory and empirical study, Mark Paterson, Martin Dodge and Sara MacKian;
1. Negotiating therapeutic touch: encountering massage through the 'mixed bodies' of Michel Serres, Jennifer Lea;
2. Touching the beach, Pau Obrador;
3. Touching space in hurt and healing: exploring experiences of illness and recovery through tactile art, Amanda Bingley;
4. Facing touch in the beauty salon: corporeal anxiety, Elizabeth R. Straughan;
5. Fieldwork: how to get in(to) touch. Towards a haptic regime of knowledge in geography, Anne Volvey;
6. Guiding visually impaired walking groups: intercorporeal experience and ethical sensibilities, Hannah Macpherson;
7. Touch, skin cultures and the space of medicine: the birth of biosubjective care, Bernard Andrieu, Anne-Flore Laloë and Alexandre Klein;
8. Touching environmentalisms: the place of touch in the fraught biogeographies of elephant captivity, Jamie Lorimer;
9. Towards touch-free spaces: sensors, software and the automatic production of shared public toilets, Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin;
10. In close embrace: the space between two dancers, Sarah G. Cant;
11. Intra-body touching and the over-life sized paintings of Jenny Savile, Rachel Colls;
12. Touched by spirit: sensing the material impacts of intangible encounters, Sara MacKian;
Index.
Erscheinungsdatum | 07.09.2016 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 453 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-25349-9 / 1138253499 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-25349-0 / 9781138253490 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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