Sensing the outdoors: a visual and haptic phenomenology of outdoor exercise embodiment

Leisure Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 457-470

  Allen Collinson, Jacquelyn ^a   Leledaki, Aspasia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^b Independent Researcher   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

intense embodiment; outdoor leisure; phenomenological sociology; phenomenology; the haptic; the senses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929838555     PISSN: 02614367     EISSN: 14664496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2014.923499     Document Type: Article

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