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The intercorporeal emergence of landscape: negotiating sight, blindness, and ideas of landscape in the British countryside.
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Environment & Planning A . May2009, Vol. 41 Issue 5, p1042-1054. 13p. 1 Black and White Photograph. - Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- In this paper I explore some of the ways in which people with visual impairments see landscape and participate in visual cultures of landscape apprehension. I draw on ethnographic and interview material, developed while acting as a sighted guide for specialist blind and visually impaired walking groups who visit the landscapes of the Lake District and Peak District in Britain. Through this research material I show how landscape is likely to become present for people with blindness or visual impairment through both their individual capacities for sight and a complex mix of discursive, material, social, and historical relations. Specifically, I argue that there is an intercorporeal, collective dimension to this emergence of landscape and this intercorporeality is evident at both a perceptual and a discursive level. I suggest that future research needs to attend further to how landscape emerges and becomes present through intercorporeal processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *BLINDNESS
*VISION disorders
*EYE diseases
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0308518X
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Environment & Planning A
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 41033068
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1068/a40365