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TY - JOUR
T1 - Spatial textures : place, touch and praesentia.
AU - Hetherington, Kevin
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - 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 nonrepresentationalist knowledge within geography.
AB - 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 nonrepresentationalist knowledge within geography.
U2 - 10.1068/a3583
DO - 10.1068/a3583
M3 - Journal article
VL - 35
SP - 1933
EP - 1944
JO - Environment and Planning A
JF - Environment and Planning A
SN - 0308-518X
IS - 11
ER -