Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn and Owton, Helen (2015) Intense embodiment: senses of heat in women's running and boxing. Body & Society, 21 (2). pp. 245-268. ISSN 1357-034x
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Item Type: | Article |
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Item Status: | Live Archive |
Abstract
In recent years, calls have been made to address the relative dearth of qualitative sociological investigation into the sensory dimensions of embodiment, including within physical cultures. This article contributes to a small, innovative and developing literature utilizing sociological phenomenology to examine sensuous embodiment. Drawing upon data from three research projects, here we explore some of the ‘sensuousities’ of ‘intense embodiment’ experiences as a distance-running-woman and a boxing-woman, respectively. Our analysis addresses the relatively unexplored haptic senses, particularly the ‘touch’ of heat. Heat has been argued to constitute a specific sensory mode, a trans-boundary sense. Our findings suggest that ‘lived’ heat, in our own physical-cultural experiences, has highly proprioceptive elements and is experienced as both a form of touch and as a distinct perceptual mode, dependent upon context. Our analysis coheres around two key themes that emerged as salient: (1) warming up, and (2) thermoregulation, which in lived experience were encountered as strongly interwoven.
Keywords: | Sociology, Sociological phenomenology, The senses, Thermoception, Heat, Distance running, Boxing, bmjgoldcheck, NotOAChecked |
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Subjects: | L Social studies > L300 Sociology |
Divisions: | College of Social Science > School of Sport and Exercise Science |
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ID Code: | 14543 |
Deposited On: | 24 Jul 2014 16:05 |
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