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Touching Space, Placing Touch. Edited by Mark Paterson and Martin Dodge

Touching Space, Placing Touch. Edited by Mark Paterson and Martin Dodge

Paterson, Mark
Dodge, Martin

Paperback

Public HealthGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138253499
ISBN13: 9781138253490
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 3 2016
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Given that touch and touching is so central to everyday embodied existence, why has it been largely ignored by social scientists for so long? What is the place of touch in our mixed spaces of sociality, work, domesticity, recreation, creativity or care? What conceptual resources and academic languages can we reach towards when approaching tactile activities and somatic experiences through the body? How is this tactile landscape gendered? How is touch becoming revisited and revalidated in late capitalism through animal encounters, tourism, massage, beauty treatments, professional medicine, everyday spiritualities or the aseptic touch-free spaces of automated toilets? How is touch placed and valued within scholarly fieldwork and research itself, integral as it is to the production of embodied epistemologies? How is touch involved in such aesthetic experiences as shaping objects in sand, or encountering fleshly bodies within a painting?

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