Touching Space, Placing Touch (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Paterson, Mark; Dodge, Martin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Providing a rich combination of theoretical resources, methodological approaches and empirical investigation, each of the chapters 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 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317009696
• Artikelnr.: 44815572

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Rezensionen

'Together, the chapters in Touching Space, Placing Touch challenge the scopophilia that animates much of geographic inquiry, from key concepts to methodological frameworks and techniques. Here, touch takes hold of the geographic imagination, reworking our understanding not only of bodies and environments, but such fundamental questions as what does it means to locate, to connect and to become intimate with? Engagingly written, Touching Space, Placing Touch uses a series of empirically rich analyses to unfold these questions, providing in the process a "grounding" of affect, aesthetics, corporeality, embodiment, performance and materialism that manages to offer a radical intellectual agenda whilst remaining accessible.' Deborah Dixon, Aberystwyth University, UK