A single day's walking: narrating self and landscape on the South West Coast Path

Wylie, John

doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2005.00163.x

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“…The idea of immersion draws on phenomenological concerns, updated within NRT, with personplace interactions and the specific relations between bodies, practices and multi-sensual environments, where surroundContents lists available at ScienceDirect journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/healthplace sounds, touch, and proprioception have explicitly embodied dimensions (Lorimer, 2008;Andrews et al, 2014). Research on coastal landscapes identifies therapeutic potentials around immersion, though these tend to be more contemplative, based on views of water (Wylie, 2005;White et al, 2010;Ryan, 2012). This paper argues for a need to stretch this a little and 'jump in', both literally and litorally.…”

Section: Introduction: Immersion Water and Spacementioning

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Swimming in Ireland: Immersions in therapeutic blue space

Foley

2015

Health & Place

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a b s t r a c tThis paper explores swimming as a healthy body-water engagement in blue space at selected outdoor Irish swimming spots. Associated theoretical underpinnings draw from non-representational theories (NRT). Taking as a starting point the idea of immersion, the paper argues for a deeper application of NRT to blue space settings. In addition, the paper reflects recent therapeutic geographies research on differential experiences of health and wellbeing linked to such immersions. Methodologically, the paper uses observer participation and swimmer's own voices to draw affective and embodied accounts from on and within water. The act of swimming as an emplaced and performed therapeutic encounter is highlighted along with a more critical discussion of contested narratives associated with risk and respect. Theoretical learning suggests the need for greater attention to the production of affect from across the life-course and a fuller articulation of the in-betweenness of theory and empirical testimonies. Swimming emerges from the study as a potentially valuable health and wellbeing resource that can be more fully harnessed to inform wider public health policy.

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Section: Introduction: Immersion Water and Spacementioning

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Swimming in Ireland: Immersions in therapeutic blue space

Foley

2015

Health & Place

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“…Indeed, as Cadman (2009) and Waterton (2012) argue, nonrepresentational geographies have been heavily informed by Heideggerian and Merleau-Pontian engagements with phenomenology which propose that we are always-already thrown into the world and inseparable from it. Along these lines, multisensory phenomenology focuses on situated events, affective states and everyday performances (Vannini, 2015 ;Wylie, 2005), which in effect:…”

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A multisensory phenomenology of interrail mobilities

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Cohen

2015

Annals of Tourism Research

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“…Exciting work on 'ethnicity' and 'rurality' is emerging that problematises the urban-as-multicultural and rural-as-monocultural dichotomy (see Bressey, 2009;Panelli et al, 2008;Tolia-Kelly, 2004;2006a;, and challenges singular notions of and experiences in 'the rural' (Neal and Agyeman, 2006). There are also new approaches to 'landscape' and space/place in terms of embodiment and affect (Macpherson, 2009a;Massey, 2006;Probyn, 2005;Rose, 2006;Tolia-Kelly, 2006b;Wylie, 2005). I draw on these literatures in revisiting my PhD work.…”

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Crossing divides: Ethnicity and rurality

Askins

2009

Journal of Rural Studies

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This paper draws on research with people from African, Caribbean and Asian backgrounds regarding perceptions and use of the English countryside. I explore the complex ways in which the category 'rural' was constructed as both essentialised and relational: how the countryside was understood most definitely as 'not-city' but also, at the same time, the English countryside was conceived as part of a range of networks: one site in a web of 'nature places' across the country, as well as one rural in an international chain of rurals -specifically via embodied and emotional connections with 'nature'. I argue that alongside sensed/sensual embodiment (the non-representational intuitive work of the body), we need also to consider reflective embodiment as a desire to space/place in order to address the structural socio-spatial exclusions endemic in (rural) England and how they are challenged. I suggest that a more progressive conceptualisation of rurality -a 'transrural' open to issues of mobility and desire -can help us disrupt dominant notions of rural England as only an exclusionary white space, and reposition it as a site within multicultural, multiethnic, transnational and mobile social I explored issues regarding ethnicity, rurality and national belonging in contemporary England, and was tasked with writing a policy report alongside the thesis 2 . As I read the academic work around my research, I increasingly became aware of a dichotomy. There was a rich body of literature around ethnic identity, diversity, hybridity, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, etc., including critical perspectives problematising these concepts and how they play out in society, but always and only embedded in the urban sphere (eg. Alexander, 2000;Amin, 2002; Back and Solomos, 2003;Brah,et al. 1999;Hesse, 2000;Mirza, 1997;Parekh, 2000a;2000b). At the same time, especially within geography, there was interest in the ways in which rurality/rural space is implicated within national identity construction, notions of belonging and spatial practices 3 . In the English context, the national imagery of rural space appeared to exclude ethnic minorities, among other groups, from accessing the countryside, both physically and emotionally (Cloke & Little, 1997;Milbourne, 1997). The connection between the rural as the 'genuine' England and not multicultural was highlighted in the Henderson and Kaur, 1999;Kinsman, 1995;Malik, 1992). However, there had been a lack of empirical work at that time to examine these issues further: ethnic minorities were perhaps too easily theorised and written as excluded 'rural others'. Indeed, Little (1999:438) voiced concern regarding the use of the term 'rural others' in general, "the lack of theoretical discussion around 'the other' and 'the same'", the paucity of recognition of the power relations complicit in such a categorisation, and the "static treatment of both individual and group identity".

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A single day's walking: narrating self and landscape on the South West Coast Path

Cited by 601 publications

References 35 publications

Swimming in Ireland: Immersions in therapeutic blue space

Swimming in Ireland: Immersions in therapeutic blue space

A multisensory phenomenology of interrail mobilities

Crossing divides: Ethnicity and rurality

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