The Evidence of Experience

Accounting histories of women: beyond recovery?

“…71-74;Scott, 1991). The determination and articulation of identity-giving labels and classifications inherent in processes of accounting, and the placement of individual subjects and events therein may reflect shifting distributions of power, gendered ideologies and cultural formations.…”

Understanding the "lived Experience" of Sport Event Volunteers: Using the Hermeneutic Circle as a Guiding Conceptual Framework

“…Although numerous events are held annually in the same place, lived experiences by exploring definitions of the term "experience" are equally challenging. Scott (1991), who critiques the negligence of defining experience, addresses "the absence of definition allows experience to resonate in many ways, but it also allows it to function as a universal category-the undefined work creates a sense of consensus by attributing to it an assumed, stable and shared meaning" (p. 788). Therefore, terms like "experience" and "lived experience" need to be explained.…”

“…Therefore, terms like "experience" and "lived experience" need to be explained. In fact, as suggested by Scott (1991), the word "experience" has become a ubiquitous term as it has evolved towards being frequently used in everyday language. In the field of events management, numerous scholars focus on the delivery of experiences (e.g., Allen & Shaw, 2009;Boo & Lu, 2015;Costa, Chalip, Green, & Simes, 2006;Gellweiler, Fletcher, & Wise, 2017;Sun, May, & Wang, 2016).…”

Afterword: Mind, Imagination, Affect

“…We see this particularly in relation to the fugitive phenomena of voice-hearing (Saunders), pain (Guenther), visceral sensations (Juler), gestures (Cole and Gallagher), depressive sadness (Garratt), and the particular texture of human and animal affective relationalities (Herman). In using the phrase 'the evidence of experience' (a phrase made famous by the feminist historian Joan Scott), 19 I am thinking of how these authors often raise to visibility diffi culties in accounting for the source and phenomenological density of these phenomena, as well as in adjudicating the person (or entity) who is deemed best placed to describe and analyse them. Juler, for example, describes the 'autoscopic undercurrents' of Artaud's depictions of the body, noting how they 'echo[ed] the pathological case-studies of psychophysiology' whereby individuals claimed to observe their body, and their bodily organs, from the inside.…”