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Reading and Walking
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17. Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, “Sporting Embodiment: Sports Studies and the (Continuing) Promise of Phenomenology”
Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson’s article is a brief introduction to phenomenology and its usefulness for research into sports. “There are relatively few accounts truly grounded in the ‘flesh’ of the lived sporting body,” she writes, “and phenomenology offers a powerful framework for such description and analysis” (279). Phenomenology, the study of things as they present themselves to […]
The Tour of All T...
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The Tour of All Tours Exhibition
The Bath Tour of All Tours, from 2014, will resurface shortly in the form of a piece of work in the exhibition Embodied Cartographies. It's been good to revisit the texts and to reassemble the performance within another medium. The exhibition is l...
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Spatial Anthropology: Preface and Section Intros
The publication titled "Spatial Anthropology: Excursions in Liminal Space" explores the intersections of spatial theory and anthropological practice, focusing on the concept of liminality within geographic and social contexts. It examines how physical and metaphorical spaces function as thresholds or transitional zones, where conventional boundaries are blurred or redefined. The work engages with case studies and theoretical reflections to analyze how liminal spaces facilitate social interactions, cultural negotiations, and identity formations, emphasizing their dynamic and processual nature.
The study situates itself within a broader discourse on spatial anthropology, contributing to understandings of how spaces are produced, experienced, and contested. It highlights the importance of field excursions and embodied encounters as methodological tools, allowing anthropologists to explore the fluid and often ambiguous qualities of liminal spaces. This approach underscores the entanglement of space, culture, and power, offering insights into the ways spatial practices shape and are shaped by social life.
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Jo Scott: artist-researcher
The website belongs to Joanne Emma Scott, whose work intersects art, cultural geography, and walking practices. It presents a detailed overview of her research projects, exhibitions, publications, and collaborative endeavors that explore the relationships between landscape, place, and human experience through walking as an artistic and analytic method. The content highlights her interdisciplinary approach, combining fieldwork, archival research, and creative practice to examine spatial histories, memory, and identity in various geographical contexts.
The site also offers insights into Joanne Emma Scott’s academic background and affiliations, alongside a portfolio that documents the visual and textual outputs of her projects. These include site-specific walks, performances, and installations that engage with themes of social and environmental change. Her work is situated within broader theoretical frameworks, drawing on concepts from cultural geography and walking art to contribute to discussions on how movement through space shapes cultural narratives and embodied knowledge.
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aifoon
The webpage "Over AiFoon" from the AiFoon project provides an overview of AiFoon as an innovative cultural initiative focused on combining sound, movement, and location to enhance urban walking experiences. AiFoon offers site-specific soundwalks that integrate ecological and cultural history with contemporary urban environments, encouraging participants to engage thoughtfully with their surroundings through auditory and physical interaction. The project emphasizes the importance of auditory perception and bodily awareness in urban spaces and aims to foster deeper emotional and sensory connections to place.
The page outlines AiFoon’s interdisciplinary approach, which merges artistic practices with geographic and ecological research to explore the urban soundscape and its cultural significance. It highlights collaborations with artists, researchers, and local communities, and situates AiFoon within broader discourses on walking art, sound studies, and cultural geography. The content stresses the critical role of walking as a form of embodied knowledge that contributes to both environmental awareness and cultural understanding in contemporary cities.