Performing health in place: The holy well as a therapeutic assemblage

Foley, Ronan

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.11.014

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“…Hoyez's study of 'yogic landscapes' showed how therapeutic landscapes were reproduced and globalised; within which sacred water and wider 'blue settings' of water and sky were considered essential components in the (re)production of wellbeing. Finally, aspects of the nature of water itself, especially its still contemplative features, have also been prominent in cultural geography research on wellness and the restoration of physical and mental health (Strang, 2004;Conradson, 2007;Lea, 2008;Duff, 2011;Foley, 2011).…”

Section: Writing Healthy Blue Spacementioning

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“…Here the reputation of healing waters, evident in historic seaside resorts, demonstrated how blue space therapeutic assemblages developed through a mix of social, economic, entrepreneurial and affective routes (Andrews and Kearns, 2005;Foley, 2010) Theoretically, there has been a 'relational turn' within health geographies research (Parr, 2004;Conradson, 2005a;Cummins et al, 2007;Duff, 2010;Andrews et al, 2014). Through that research, the sometimes complex theoretical discourses associated with ANT (actor-network theory), more-than-representational theories and mobilities thinking are slowly acquiring a healthy blue tinge (Lorimer, 2005;Foley, 2011;Gatrell, 2013;Andrews et al, 2014;Kearns, 2014). Clear tensions exist between applied and theoretical health/place work that reflects splits between material descriptive accounts and more critical philosophical writing (Creswell, 2013;Kearns, 2014).…”

Section: Writing Healthy Blue Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Through studies focused on phobic/philic geographies, different approaches that combine theory and materiality demonstrate how health may or may not be enabled in place (Duff, 2010;Parr and Davidson, 2010;Doughty, 2013;Philo, 2014). Different culture and condition-specific, embodied, gendered and experiential accounts are drawn from within both green and blue space to provide more nuanced understandings of how enabling places work and how theoretical ideas on relational place are central to those articulations (Foley, 2011;Duff, 2012;Merchant, 2011;Doughty, 2013;Pitt, 2014).…”

Section: Writing Healthy Blue Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

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Blue space geographies: Enabling health in place

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a b s t r a c tDrawing from research on therapeutic landscapes and relationships between environment, health and wellbeing, we propose the idea of 'healthy blue space' as an important new development Complementing research on healthy green space, blue space is defined as; 'health-enabling places and spaces, where water is at the centre of a range of environments with identifiable potential for the promotion of human wellbeing'. Using theoretical ideas from emotional and relational geographies and critical understandings of salutogenesis, the value of blue space to health and wellbeing is recognised and evaluated. Six individual papers from five different countries consider how health can be enabled in mixed blue space settings. Four sub-themes; embodiment, inter-subjectivity, activity and meaning, document multiple experiences within a range of healthy blue spaces. Finally, we suggest a considerable research agenda -theoretical, methodological and applied -for future work within different forms of blue space. All are suggested as having public health policy relevance in social and public space.

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Section: Writing Healthy Blue Spacementioning

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Section: Writing Healthy Blue Spacementioning

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Section: Writing Healthy Blue Spacementioning

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“…Connecting such theoretical ideas directly with the act of swimming, itself a visibly non-representational practice, lie at the heart of the paper. At the same time, NRT concerns increasingly overlap with recent writing on therapeutic landscapes, including empirical studies associated with water Kearns, 2007, Williams, 2007;Author, 2010Author, , 2011Foley, 2010Foley, , 2011Wheeler et al, 2012). Recent critical writing from therapeutic geographies argue that place is experienced differently by different people and it is necessary to be mindful of differential therapeutic outcomes at all times (Conradson, 2005).…”

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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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“…This paper aims to contribute to the existing research by putting resident-centred care in a theoretical context of relationality and emergence (DeLanda, 2016). A point of departure is that care is a practice and an approach enmeshed in spatial, material and architectural circumstances (Foley, 2011; Mol, Moser, & Pols, 2010; Nord & Högström, 2017). Thus, by adopting a theory of emergence, resident-centred care is not something that is , but rather something that becomes , dependent on circumstances and co-constituting components.…”

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Resident-centred care and architecture of two different types of caring residences: a comparative study

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2018

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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The relationship between architectural space and resident-centred care is poorly understood, even though architectural space is indicated as an important factor in the quality of care. This paper aims to address this gap in existing research by putting resident-centred care in the theoretical context of relationality and emergence in which space is a co-producing component. This qualitative case study includes two housing alternatives, which are compared: one assisted living and one extra-care housing residence, which differ in their legal status and architecturally. Similar fieldwork was carried out in the two residences. Individual interviews with staff and residents, as well as observations—direct and shadowing—were the main data collection methods. The concept of assemblage was used for the analysis of how resident-centred care and architectural space co-evolved. The findings show that resident-centred care appears in similar but also diverse and sometimes contradictory ways in different spaces in the two housing alternatives, suggesting that resident-centred care is situated, volatile and emergent. Although architecture has strong agency, space and care need to be considered together—a caring architecture—in order to understand the nuances and rich conceptual palette of resident-centred care.

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Performing health in place: The holy well as a therapeutic assemblage

Cited by 141 publications

References 36 publications

Blue space geographies: Enabling health in place

Blue space geographies: Enabling health in place

Swimming in Ireland: Immersions in therapeutic blue space

Resident-centred care and architecture of two different types of caring residences: a comparative study

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