Take a deep breath: Asthma, sporting embodiment, the senses and ‘auditory work’

Abstract

). For, whilst it is clearly of importance to address sports participation at the social-structural and ideological levels, an over-emphasis on the abstract and the macro can result in the neglect of the existential, material dimension, and the under-theorisation of the bodily aspects, the 'enfleshment' of lived sporting experience. Given the highly corporeal elements of much sports participation, such a lacuna within the sociology of sport's theoretical pantheon requires some attention. Phenomenology is, we argue, well-equipped to provide us with sharp, perceptive and well-grounded insights into the "here-and-now, raw reality of the body" (Sinclair, 2005: 90), the lived reality of the sensuous sporting body. As Martínková and Parry (2011) note, phenomenologists look at what we normally look through; we look at our human-ness in order to provide an account of what we are and how we experience; in this case how we experience sport and sports participation. Straying from its more philosophical roots, sociological phenomenology acknowledges and addresses the multiple effects of culture and social-structural elements upon lived-body experience. For the purposes of this paper, we adopt Allen- Collinson's (2011b: 299) and Martínková and Parry's (2011: 196) concept of a phenomenologically-inspired sociology, and for ease of reading term this 'sociological phenomenology'.

Sensing the outdoors: a visual and haptic phenomenology of outdoor exercise embodiment

“…Our participants (and we ourselves) thus often found it difficult to describe haptic experiences. Perhaps the accounts below will evoke in the reader's body a vicarious multi-sensorial response; a form of sensory intersubjectivity (Allen-Collinson & Owton, 2012) if these accounts reverberate with her/his lived experience, despite the limitations of textual representation.…”

“…The difficulties of verbally and textually representing sensory experience have been discussed in the literature (Allen-Collinson & Owton, 2012;Sparkes & Smith, 2012) and are acutely brought home to us in re-reading, out of context, some of the quotes that follow below. There are considerable challenges in portraying in analytic textual discourse the kinds of bodily practices and experiences not usually expressed verbally or visually, the 'unrepresentable' (Merchant, 2011), or at least the 'difficult to represent'.…”

A level playing ‘field’? A Bourdieusian analysis of the career aspirations of further education students on sports courses

“…This encroaches upon what might, in other theoretical traditions (such as symbolic interactionism and sociological phenomenology) be termed 'intersubjectivity' (Allen-Collinson & Owton, 2014). This lacuna in the literature may be due to Bourdieu's own approach to relationality and his relative neglect of investigation into social relationships (Bottero, 2009 King (2000) has suggested that Bourdieu does, to some extent at least, recognise the intersubjectivity of social life, but to date there has been little academic attention accorded to investigating at the micro-level the complexities of social interaction from a Bourdieusian perspective.…”

The coughing body: etiquettes, techniques, sonographies and spaces

“…[looks around her]”. Such sonographic labour is a belatedly ‘under-examined’ dimension of scholarship on embodiment, let alone breath, breathing and respiratory life (Allen-Collinson and Owton 2012 ; Robinson 2019 ). In particular, such listening is a matter of being able to recognise, or not, other people with CF.…”