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Haptic geographies: ethnography, haptic knowledges and sensuous dispositions

School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources, University of Exeter, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK

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	Abstract

This paper is the first overview of the treatment of haptic knowledges in geography, responding to bodily sensations and responses that arise through the embodied researcher. After Crangs (2003) article on touchy-feely methods identifies the dearth of actual touching and embodied feeling in research methods, this article does three things. First, it clarifies the terminology, which is derived from a number of disciplines. Second, it summarizes developments in sensuous ethnographies within cultural geography and anthropology. Third, it suggests pathways to new research on sensuous dispositions and non-representational theory. We thereby see just how touchy-feely qualitative methods have, or might, become

Key Words: ethnography, haptic, phenomenology, senses, touch

First published on March 13, 2009, doi:10.1177/0309132509103155

Progress in Human Geography 2009;33:766.

A more recent version of this article appeared on December 1, 2009


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