Affective atmospheres

Anderson, Ben

doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2009.08.005

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“…Yet in the words they choose, and the descriptions of an affective sense of what they intuit, feel, enact and respond to in the water, they do find often eloquent means to show their experiences. Words like atmosphere and freshness come up in some of those hesitant accounts that encapsulate a sense of a non-representational emergence where action, place and beneficial outcomes meet (Anderson, 2009;McCormack, 2010). Such words are often impossible to explain but we get it, from the context, the known action, our own experiential memories and emotions.…”

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“…In the author's case this might be reflected in a near-drowning experience in waves as a four-year old, or through a family history of repeated visits to seaside locations. NRT have traditionally had a greater focus on the individual moment and while it does consider cumulative affects, it might be extended to consider multiple moments stored in bodyplace memories and how they shape affective encounters (Anderson, 2009).…”

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“…From participant observation notes at the Guillemene on August 18th, 2013, place performance opened up a veritable assemblage of activity (Anderson, 2009)…”

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Swimming in Ireland: Immersions in therapeutic blue space

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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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Swimming in Ireland: Immersions in therapeutic blue space

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“…Böhme, 1993). "Affective atmospheres" (Anderson, 2009;Bissell, 2010) emerge on the move as bodily perceived and sensed qualities in the relationship between people and objects. An affective atmosphere might fruitfully be thought of as a "propensity: a pull or a charge that might emerge in a particular space which might (or might not) generate particular events and actions, feelings and emotions" (Bissell, 2010, p. 273).…”

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“…The moments on the grass strip express a situated and personal appropriation of the tunnel materiality that points to the ambiguity of its gestures. The affective atmospheres of the tunnel are not "sealed off" to an aseptic expression and anxious hurry or desensitizing transport (see Anderson, 2009). Though it coercively organises their wayfaring practices and experiences, the girls also show non-conformity to the design's implicit guidelines for mobile behaviour.…”

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