The Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Running

Koski, Tapio

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-15597-5

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“…Alternatively, according to Merleau-Ponty consciousness contains the bodily experiences of the world, and as such is not just a thinking activity (Koski, 2015). The current research and associated ndings align with an embodied consciousness, and an experience of corporeal being-in-the-world for ultrarunners.…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 60%

“…While he describes this as both necessary and unavoidable, it can become un tting and uncomfortable (Heidegger, 1978). When an individual's relation to oneself is silent in this way, the meaningful, personal relationship to the world is missing and has not been realized (Koski, 2015). Through running, participants in this study discovered a different way of being.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…Participant injury stories often became xed on detailed journeys of repair and an unwavering desire to build an even stronger indelible body. As Koski (2015) suggests, the ultra-running body is an object-like pragmatic being which is thematized as the performer. The entrenched nature of this performance narrative creating a sti ing context for other ways of approaching injury experiences (Everard et al, 2023).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This meshing of the mind and body creates a consciousness that allows the senses to open up to their surroundings through running. Through motion, the body is experientially in touch with the world in an operational capacity (Koski, 2015). This contrasts with discursive constructions of space discussed by Lefebvre (1991) which involves a type of cognitive engagement with space and surroundings.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 88%

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The Embodied Experiences of Injured Ultra-Runners: A Body-Mapping Study

Hall,

Rhodes

2024

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The sport of Ultra-running has seen exponential growth over the past ten years. These athletes attempt to push beyond unknown human limits by running for many hours at a time, often multiple times a week across mountains and trails. While research has begun to consider how injury impacts these athletes, less is known about their subjective embodied experiences. In particular, the discourses they resist and submit to when they are suddenly unable to run. This study describes the use of body-mapping and narrative interviewing as two forms of research inquiry merged to explore the embodied experiences of eight ultra-runners who had recently experienced an injury. Plot lines were woven through the visual and textual material resulting in three master plots and eight sub plots. Stories of Body Self-transformation, Machina Carnis or the body-as-machine and senescence or the ageing body were layered by emplacing images and text onto life sized body maps creating vibrant art works. These art works were analysed alongside detailed narratives of endurance, strength, determination and loss. Through the art works participants were able to make visible the invisible, with the injury experience providing a window into former ways of being and current experiences of liminality and fear. This study provides insight into the shifting subjectivities of these extreme athletes brought about by pain and injury and highlights the importance of using power leveling and emancipatory arts-based research methods in accessing subjective experience.

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Rhodes

2024

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“…This also applies to ethnographic accounts that often employ Bourdieuan and Foucauldian perspectives. Another frequent theoretical framework in ethnographies of runningthat I will return to in the analysis belowhas been Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception (Hockey, 2006;Hockey & Allen-Collinson 2016;Koski 2015;Lev, 2020).…”

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“Some People Smoke and Drink, I Run”: Addiction to Running through an Ethnographic Lens

Gross

2021

Leisure Sciences

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Recreational long-distance runners' exercising levels often considerably exceed those necessary for keeping healthy. As their running careers unfold, many runners become inspired not so much by fitness and health but by other corollaries of running, such as capacity to endure high levels of pain and exhaustion or novel bodily experiences. As I show in the ethnographic example of Estonian runners, a "low-resolution" explanation of such a shift in runners' motivations allows it to be understood in conventional terms of addiction. Three symptoms commonly highlighted in definitions of exercise addiction tolerance, continuance, and withdrawalwere particularly salient in the careers of many interviewed runners. However, the reasons for developing these symptoms were not merely psycho-physiological and their implications were not clear-cut which calls for a more nuanced approach to runners' bodily experiences, the meanings attributed to these, as well as running addiction and its relationship with health and well-being.

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Ultra-running: Repositioning the Injury Experience Within an Embodiment Framework

Hall

Rhodes

2021

Hu Arenas

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The Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Running

Cited by 13 publications

References 8 publications

The Embodied Experiences of Injured Ultra-Runners: A Body-Mapping Study

The Embodied Experiences of Injured Ultra-Runners: A Body-Mapping Study

“Some People Smoke and Drink, I Run”: Addiction to Running through an Ethnographic Lens

Ultra-running: Repositioning the Injury Experience Within an Embodiment Framework

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