Sensory sociological phenomenology, somatic learning and 'lived' temperature in competitive pool swimming
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Sensory sociological phenomenology, somatic learning and 'lived' temperature in competitive pool swimming. / McNarry, Gareth; Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn; Evans, Adam B.
In: Sociological Review, Vol. 69, No. 1, 2021, p. 206-222.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Sensory sociological phenomenology, somatic learning and 'lived' temperature in competitive pool swimming
AU - McNarry, Gareth
AU - Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn
AU - Evans, Adam B.
N1 - CURIS 2021 NEXS 017
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In this article, we address an existing lacuna in the sociology of the senses, by employing sociological phenomenology to illuminate the under-researched sense of temperature, as lived by a social group for whom water temperature is particularly salient: competitive pool swimmers. The research contributes to a developing ‘sensory sociology’ that highlights the importance of the socio-cultural framing of the senses and ‘sensory work’, but where there remains a dearth of sociological exploration into senses extending beyond the ‘classic five’ sensorium. Drawing on data from a three-year ethnographic study of competitive swimmers in the UK, our analysis explores the rich sensuousities of swimming, and highlights the role of temperature as fundamentally affecting the affordances offered by the aquatic environment. The article contributes original theoretical perspectives to the sociology of the senses and of sport in addressing the ways in which social actors in the aquatic environment interact, both intersubjectively and intercorporeally, as thermal beings.
AB - In this article, we address an existing lacuna in the sociology of the senses, by employing sociological phenomenology to illuminate the under-researched sense of temperature, as lived by a social group for whom water temperature is particularly salient: competitive pool swimmers. The research contributes to a developing ‘sensory sociology’ that highlights the importance of the socio-cultural framing of the senses and ‘sensory work’, but where there remains a dearth of sociological exploration into senses extending beyond the ‘classic five’ sensorium. Drawing on data from a three-year ethnographic study of competitive swimmers in the UK, our analysis explores the rich sensuousities of swimming, and highlights the role of temperature as fundamentally affecting the affordances offered by the aquatic environment. The article contributes original theoretical perspectives to the sociology of the senses and of sport in addressing the ways in which social actors in the aquatic environment interact, both intersubjectively and intercorporeally, as thermal beings.
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - Lived temperature
KW - Sociological phenomenology
KW - Sociology of the senses
KW - Sport and physical cultures
KW - Swimming
U2 - 10.1177/0038026120915149
DO - 10.1177/0038026120915149
M3 - Journal article
VL - 69
SP - 206
EP - 222
JO - Sociological Review
JF - Sociological Review
SN - 0038-0261
IS - 1
ER -
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