A haptic geography of the beach: Naked bodies, vision and touch

Social and Cultural Geography

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 123-141

  Obrador Pons, Pau ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beach; Embodiment; Non representational theory; Nudity; Touch; Vision

Indexed keywords

BEACH; VISION;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MINORCA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 34247644334     PISSN: 14649365     EISSN: 14701197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649360701251866     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Barcan, R. (2001) The moral bath of bodily unconsciousness: Female nudism, bodily exposure and the gaze. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 15, pp. 303-317.
2. Barcan, R. (2004) Nudity, a Cultural Anatomy, Berg, Oxford
3. Bell, D. and Holliday, R. (2000) Naked as nature intended. Body & Society, 6:34, pp. 127-140.
4. Bennett, J. (2001) The Enchantment of Modern Life. Attachments, Crossing and Ethics, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
5. Bonner, K., Mckay, S. and McKee, A. (2001) On the beach. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 15, pp. 269-274.
6. Debord, G. (1995) The Society of Spectacle, Zone Books, New York
7. Deleuze, G. (2005) Ethology: Spinoza and us. The Body: A Reader, pp. 62-66. Routledge, London
8. Dewsbury, J. (2000) Performativity and the event: Enacting a philosphy of difference. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 18, pp. 473-497.
9. Dewsbury, J. and Thrift, N. (2000) Dead geographies and how to make them live. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 18, pp. 411-432.
10. Dewsbury, J.D., Harrison, P., Rose, M. and Wylie, J. (2002) Enacting geographies. Geoforum, 33, pp. 400-437.
11. Douglas, J.D., Rasmunssen, P.K. and Flanagan, C.A. (1977) The Nude Beach, Sage, London
12. Foster, H. (1988) Vision and Visuality, The New Press, New York
13. Foucault, M. (1997) Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prision, Allen Lane, London
14. Fraser, M. and Greco, M. (2005) The Body: A Reader, Routledge, London
15. Game, A. (1991) Undoing the Social: Towards a Deconstructive Sociology, Open University Press, Milton Keynes
16. Harrison, P. (2000) Making sense: Embodiment and the sensibilities of the everyday. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 18, pp. 497-517.
17. Harrison, P. (2002) The caesura: Remarks on Wittgenstein's interruption of theory, or why practices elude explanation. Geoforum, 33, pp. 487-503.
18. Hetherington, K. (2003) Spatial textures: Making place through touch. Environment and Planning A, 35, pp. 1933-1944.
19. Jay, M. (1994) Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in the 20th Century French Thought, University of California Press, Berkeley
20. Latham, A. (2003) Research, performance, and doing human geography: Some reflections on the diary-photograph, diary-interview method. Environment and Planing A, 35, pp. 1993-2017.
21. Latham, A. and McCormack, D. (2004) Moving cities: Rethinking the materialities of urban geography. Progress in Human Geography, 28:701, p. 724.
22. Lencek, L. and Bosker, G. (1999) The Beach: The History of Paradise on Earth, Pimlico, London
23. Levinas, E. (1997) Time and the Other, Duquesne University Press, Pittsburgh
24. Löfgren, O. (1999) On Holiday: A History of Vacationing, University of California Press, Berkeley
25. Lorimer, H. (2005) Cultural geography: The busyness of being 'more-than-representational. Progress in Human Geography, 29, pp. 83-94.
26. Massumi, B. (2002) Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect and Sensation, Duke University Press, Durham, NC
27. McCormack, D.P. (2002) A Paper with and interest in rhythm. Geoforum, 33, pp. 469-485.
28. McCormack, D.P. (2003) An event of geographical ethics in spaces of affect. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 28, pp. 488-507.
29. McCormack, D.P. (2005) Diagramming practice and performance. Environmental Planning D, Society and Space, 23, pp. 119-147.
30. Merleau-Ponty, M. (1968) The Visible and the Invisible, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
31. Mulvey, L. (1999) Visual pleasure and narrative cinema. Visual Culture: The Reader, pp. 381-389. Sage, London
32. Obrador-Pons, P. (2003) Being-on-holiday; tourist dwelling, bodies and place. Tourist Studies, 3, pp. 47-66.
33. Paterson, M. (2004) Caresses, excesses, intimacies and estrangements. Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 9, pp. 165-177.
34. Paterson, M. (2005) The forgetting of touch: Remembering geometry with eyes and hands. Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 10, pp. 115-131.
35. Paterson, M. (2006) Feel the presence: The technologies of touch. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 24, pp. 691-708.
36. Pollock, G. (1988) Vision & Difference: Femininity, Feminism and the Histories of Art, Routledge, London
37. Radley, A. (1995) The elusory body and social constructionist theory. Body & Society, 1:2, pp. 3-23.
38. Rodaway, P. (1994) Sensuous Geographies: Body, Sense and Place, Routledge, London
39. Rozenberg, D. (1990) Ibiza: Una Isla Para Otra Vida, CIS-Siglo XXI, Madrid
40. Shields, R. (1991) Places on the Margin: Alternative Geographies of Modernity, Routledge, London
41. Thrift, N. (1997) The still point: Resistance, expressive embodiment and dance. Geographies of Resistance, pp. 124-151. Routledge, London
42. Thrift, N. (1999) Steps to an ecology of place. Human Geography Today, pp. 295-322. Polity Press, Cambridge
43. Thrift, N. (2000) Still life in nearly present time: The object of nature. Body & Society, 6:34, pp. 34-57.
44. Thrift, N. (2004) Summoning life. Envisioning Human Geography, pp. 81-103. Arnold, London
45. Toepfer, K. (1997) Empire of Ecstasy: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910-1935, University of California Press, Berkeley
46. Urbain, J.D. (2003) At the Beach, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
47. Urry, J. (1990) The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies, Sage, London
48. Wylie, J. (2002) An essay on ascending Glastonbury Tor. Geoforum, 33, pp. 441-454.