In the heat of the moment: a phenomenology of lived heat and ‘intense embodiment’

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dc.contributor.authorOwton, H.en
dc.contributor.authorAllen-Collinson, J.en
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-04T15:23:36Z
dc.date.available2014-06-04T15:23:36Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractIn 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.en
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dc.identifier.citationAllen-Collinson, J., and Owton, H. (2014) In the heat of the moment: a phenomenology of lived heat and ‘intense embodiment’. Body and Society (in press).en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2086/9980
dc.language.isoenen
dc.projectidn/aen
dc.publisherSageen
dc.subjectBoxingen
dc.subjectRunningen
dc.subjectHeaten
dc.subjectEmbodimenten
dc.subjectSportsen
dc.subjectSensesen
dc.subjectSociologyen
dc.subjectWomen's bodiesen
dc.subjectPhenomenologyen
dc.titleIn the heat of the moment: a phenomenology of lived heat and ‘intense embodiment’en
dc.typeArticleen

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