Hetherington, Kevin
(2003).
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1068/a3583 |
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Abstract
In this paper I consider the everyday ways in which people make place through touch. Beginning with discussions with visually impaired people about their experiences of museum places, I seek to offer a more general understanding of the coconstruction of place and subjectivity through the role of touch. Touch produces a form of confirmation of the subject - world at the interface between the materiality of that world and the hand. Such an encounter is understood not as initially meaningful and representational to a subject who is distinct and distally knowledgable about the world, but as constitutive - through a proximal encounter with the praesentia of a place, which is both present and absent - of the subject itself. As such, I aim to contribute to ongoing debates around the themes of performativity and non-representationalist knowledge within geography.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| ISSN: | 1472-3409 |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Social Sciences > Geography |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) OpenSpace Research Centre (OSRC) |
| Item ID: | 4520 |
| Depositing User: | Users 6043 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jul 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2010 19:52 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/4520 |
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