Walking in the British Countryside: Reflexivity, Embodied Practices and Ways to Escape

Edensor, Tim

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“…Certes, il est pris ici comme modèle d'acquisition des techniques du corps et indice d'un comportement socialement différencié. Mais des travaux spécifiquement liés aux marcheurs, tels ceux d 'Edensor (2000), invitent à considérer plusieurs dimensions à l'incorporation. L'unité se retrouve dans le caractère concret des pratiques, répondant au caractère concret des chemins.…”

Section: Les Questions De Méthode : Choix D'un Mode D'approche Et Chounclassified

Dossier « Approches urbaines insolites » – Chemins périurbains : aménités vécues et enjeux réels

Sahuc

2010

Nat. Sci. Soc.

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Mots-clés :chemins de randonnée ; périurbain ; sociologie ; observation participante ; sud-est toulousain Résumé -Les espaces proches des villes sont parfois réduits à la figure du lotissement pavillonnaire et des déplacements en automobile qu'ils entraînent. Mais certains sont traversés de chemins où l'on marche, certes moins remarqués que les chemins des régions touristiques. C'est leur position de proximité résidentielle qui les fait fréquenter soit par des « périurbains », soit par des urbains. Ainsi en va-t-il de chemins situés en bordure sud-est de l'aire urbaine toulousaine. Une enquête est allée au contact des marcheurs et marcheuses qu'on y rencontre, mais aussi des ouvriers travaillant au tracé et à l'entretien. Une diversité d'usages y apparaît, surtout dans la façon de profiter de ressources auxquelles le chemin donne accès. Mais ce qui apparaît encore plus fortement est le jeu social qui conforte la posture des uns et marginalise les autres. Ainsi, investissant dans la politique des chemins, la collectivité locale concernée peut se prévaloir de protéger la biodiversité, mais elle menace à son insu une certaine sociodiversité. Keywords:hiking paths; suburban areas; sociology; participating observation; South-Western France Abstract -Walking paths around towns: lived attraction and actual stakes. Suburban spaces often evoke the picture of sprawling housing estates and the high use of car driving they entail. But some of these estates are also crossed by paths used by walkers. These paths enjoy less attention than trails in tourist areas. But being close to towns and suburban areas, they are used by walkers living in these areas. Such is the case for paths along the south-eastern border of Toulouse in South-West France. A survey was made of both people walking along these paths and the workers responsible for their maintenance. There appeared a great diversity in practices and use, especially in the ways of taking advantage of the resources offered by the paths. What emerged even more clearly was the social process which reinforces the social advantage of some while pushing others out towards the margins. Thus, when the local community invests in path development policy and claims to protect biodiversity, it is little aware that it threatens simultaneously what may be called sociodiversity.

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Section: Les Questions De Méthode : Choix D'un Mode D'approche Et Chounclassified

Dossier « Approches urbaines insolites » – Chemins périurbains : aménités vécues et enjeux réels

Sahuc

2010

Nat. Sci. Soc.

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“…In the case of walking, individuals are required to adopt a regime that "is of sufficient intensity, is carried out with sufficient regularity and is performed for a sufficient length of time" (Walking the way to health, 1999: 9). Such a regime, with its emphasis on intensity, regularity and duration, appears far removed from other walking practices that are more closely aligned with the pursuit of pleasure than the quest for health (Urry, 1995;Macnaghten & Urry, 1998;Edensor, 2000). Indeed, according to Kay & Moxham, walking in the countryside is regarded as "one of the more passive, pleasurable and consequently popular forms of outdoor recreation" (1996:…”

Section: Governing the Walking Bodymentioning

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Off the couch and on the move: Global public health and the medicalisation of nature

Brown

Bell

2007

Social Science & Medicine

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Lying at its heart is the recognition that many of the risk factors associated with non-communicable diseases, particularly poor diet and physical inactivity, have begun to move beyond the confines of the West. It was this apparent shift in the epidemiological boundaries of such diseases, along with fears over the socalled 'double burden' that they presented to some nations, that finally prompted the WHO to develop such a far reaching strategy. This paper adds to the on-going debate surrounding this important issue by drawing on the concepts of medicalisation, governmentality and the spatiality of scientific knowledge to explore one particular element of it: namely, the identification of nature as a setting for the promotion of physical activity. We adopt this perspective because we are concerned to understand the ways in which the knowledge and practice of the new public health travels. As our analysis reveals, in many Western nations the natural environment has emerged as an important 'transactional zone' where the governmental imperative for the production of fit and active bodies coalesces with the individual desire to be healthy. However, while it is apparent that this physical activity discourse increasingly operates throughout the globe, there is less evidence of an equivalent discourse that promotes the health-related benefits of nature. We argue that this is significant because it helps us recognise that contemporary public health discourse has a distinct geography.

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“…As an alternative, Romantics advocated walking, which was seen as a form of travel that everyone could participate in (Edensor 2000). Indeed, many Romantics actively organized workers in tramps through the countryside (Snape 2004).…”

Section: The Impact Of the Romantic Ethos On Tourismmentioning

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Consumer specialization and the Romantic transformation of the British Grand Tour of Europe

Chai

2011

J Bioecon

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Abstract. This paper posits that significant changes in 19 th century British recreational travel patterns resulted from a change in the manner in which tourists used entertaining stimuli in order to attain pleasure. Consumers no longer merely viewed arousing stimuli, but attempted to use them to produce emotional states of being which they could partially modify to intensify pleasurable feelings (Damasio 2003). The impetus for this modification stemmed from an increasing awareness that emotional responses could be to some degree self-cultivated, as embodied in the Romantic ethos that become popular at the time via the emergence of the paperback novel and magazine industry (Campbell 1987). By learning how to manipulate and modify mental images in a way that may not necessarily correspond with objective reality, Romantic tourists learned to elicit pleasure through engaging of their imagination. Such a change in the mode of pleasure seeking had important long run economic consequences for tourist regions throughout the European continent.

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Walking in the British Countryside: Reflexivity, Embodied Practices and Ways to Escape

Cited by 232 publications

References 12 publications

Dossier « Approches urbaines insolites » – Chemins périurbains : aménités vécues et enjeux réels

Dossier « Approches urbaines insolites » – Chemins périurbains : aménités vécues et enjeux réels

Off the couch and on the move: Global public health and the medicalisation of nature

Consumer specialization and the Romantic transformation of the British Grand Tour of Europe

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