The haptic pleasures of ground-feel: The role of textured terrain in motivating regular exercise

Brown, Katrina

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.08.012

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“…Notably, the growing focus within and beyond the therapeutic landscapes literature on affective, embodied, multisensory outdoor experiences raises interesting challenges to this 'palettic' approach (Spinney, 2006;Straughan, 2012;Nettleton, 2015). As discussed by Brown (2016), for example, by framing the environment primarily through colour, there is a risk of overlooking the wider textures, terrains, auditory tones, smells and sensations that are felt through the body to render such encounters therapeutic or otherwise. In this way, perhaps a shift towards palettic 'sensescapes' might better equip researchers to engage with corporeal contingency and embodied difference (Macpherson, 2016;Meijering et al, 2016), potentially pointing to a useful point of intersection with wider literature on sensuous geographies, geographies of disability and differential mobilities (Rodaway, 1994;Burns et al, 2009Burns et al, , 2013Parent, 2016).…”

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From therapeutic landscapes to healthy spaces, places and practices: A scoping review

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Houghton

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The term 'therapeutic landscapes' was first coined by health geographer, Wilbert Gesler, in 1992 to explore why certain environments seem to contribute to a healing sense of place. Since then, the concept and its applications have evolved and expanded as researchers have examined the dynamic material, affective and socio-cultural roots and routes to experiences of health and wellbeing in specific places. Drawing on a scoping review of studies of these wider therapeutic landscapes published between 2007 and 2016, this paper explores how, where, and to what benefit the 'therapeutic landscapes' concept has been applied to date, and how such applications have contributed to its critical evolution as a relevant and useful concept in health geography. Building on themes included in two earlier (1999, 2007) edited volumes on Therapeutic Landscapes, we summarise the key themes identified in the review, broadly in keeping with the core material, social, spiritual and symbolic dimensions of the concept initially posited by Gesler. Through this process, we identify strengths and limitations of the concept and its applications, as well as knowledge gaps and promising future directions for work in this field, reflecting critically on its value within health geography and its potential contribution to wider interdisciplinary discussions and debates around 'healthy' spaces, places, and related practices.

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Section: Developing Palettes Of Placementioning

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From therapeutic landscapes to healthy spaces, places and practices: A scoping review

Bell

Foley

Houghton

et al. 2018

Social Science & Medicine

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196

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“… Fischer and Eastwood (2016) find intersections between the co-production of ecosystem structures, ecosystem services, and the social construction of these structures and services. Brown (2016) demonstrates how the experience of textured terrain (e.g., the resistance, gradient, shape lumpiness, and irregularities of the terrain) can produce sensory and emotional experiences that motivate regular exercise.…”

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Sense of Place, Fast and Slow: The Potential Contributions of Affordance Theory to Sense of Place

2017

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Over the past 40 years, the sense of place concept has been well-established across a range of applications and settings; however, most theoretical developments have “privileged the slow.” Evidence suggests that place attachments and place meanings are slow to evolve, sometimes not matching material or social reality (lag effects), and also tending to inhibit change. Here, we present some key blind spots in sense of place scholarship and then suggest how a reconsideration of sense of place as “fast” and “slow” could fill them. By this, we mean how direct and immediate perception–action processes presented in affordance theory (resulting in immediately perceived place meanings) can complement slower forms of social construction presented in sense of place scholarship. Key blind spots are that sense of place scholarship: (1) rarely accounts for sensory or immediately perceived meanings; (2) pays little attention to how place meanings are the joint product of attributes of environmental features and the attributes of the individual; and (3) assumes that the relationship between place attachment and behavior is linear and not constituted in dynamic relations among mind, culture, and environment. We show how these blind spots can begin to be addressed by reviewing key insights from affordance theory, and through the presentation of applied examples. We discuss future empirical research directions in terms of: (1) how sense of place is both perceived and socially constructed; (2) whether perceived and socially constructed dimensions of place can relate to one another when perceived meanings become unsituated; and (3) how place attachment may change over different stages of the life course based upon dynamic relationships between processes of perception–action and social construction. We conclude with insights into how processes of perception–action and social construction could be included in the design and management of urban landscapes.

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“…However, it was only through participating in this practice, through having my body and my practices conditioned by the routines of the Mixed Martial Artist, that I recognised that it was necessary to understand more about how life outside the gym shaped the maintenance of this practice. BothBrown (2016) andWard (2016), also in this issue, have highlighted the significance of performing the practice under study with participants as a way of staging more in-depth interviews with them afterwards.The carnal ethnography developed by Wacquant and adopted and adapted by others does not provide a full array of tools to be able to study the maintenance of this physical exercise practice within and in relation to other practices in everyday life. This is because they focus on a single practice, the martial art or combat sport under question itself.…”

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Maintaining physical exercise as a matter of synchronising practices: Experiences and observations from training in Mixed Martial Arts

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2017

Health & Place

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This paper is concerned with the establishment, maintenance, and decline of physical exercise practices. Drawing on experiences and observations taken from a carnal ethnography and rhythmanalysis of the practices involved in training in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), I argue that maintaining this physical exercise practice is not straightforwardly an outcome of individual commitment, access to facilities, or the availability of free time. It rather depends on the synchronisation of practices: those of MMA, those that support MMA, and those that more broadly make up everyday life. This research suggests that increasing rates of physical activity might be better fostered through facilitating the integration of combinations of healthy activities into everyday life.

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The haptic pleasures of ground-feel: The role of textured terrain in motivating regular exercise

Cited by 69 publications

References 39 publications

From therapeutic landscapes to healthy spaces, places and practices: A scoping review

From therapeutic landscapes to healthy spaces, places and practices: A scoping review

Sense of Place, Fast and Slow: The Potential Contributions of Affordance Theory to Sense of Place

Maintaining physical exercise as a matter of synchronising practices: Experiences and observations from training in Mixed Martial Arts

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