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Given that touch and touching is so central to everyday embodied existence, why has it been largely ignored by social scientists for so long? What is the place of touch in our mixed spaces of sociality, work, domesticity, recreation, creativity or care? What conceptual resources and academic languages can we reach towards when approaching tactile activities and somatic experiences through the body? How is this tactile landscape gendered? How is touch becoming revisited and revalidated in late capitalism through animal encounters, tourism, massage, beauty treatments, professional medicine, everyday spiritualities or the aseptic touch-free spaces of automated toilets? How is touch placed and valued within scholarly fieldwork and research itself, integral as it is to the production of embodied epistemologies? How is touch involved in such aesthetic experiences as shaping objects in sand, or encountering fleshly bodies within a painting? The goal of this edited collection, Touching Space, Placing Touch is twofold: 1. To further advance theoretical and empirical understanding of touch in social science scholarship by focussing on the differential social and cultural meanings of touching and the places of touch. 2. To develop a multi-faceted and interdisciplinary explanations of touch in terms of individual and social life, personal experiences and tasks, and their related cultural contexts. The twelve essays in this volume provide a rich combination of theoretical resources, methodological approaches and empirical investigation. Each chapter takes a distinct aspect of touch within a particular spatial context, exploring this through a mixture of sustained empirical work, critical theories of embodiment, philosophical and psychoanalytic approaches to gendered touch and touching, or the relationship between visual and non-visual culture, to articulate something of the variety and variability of touching experiences. The contributors are a mixture of established and emerging researchers within a growing interdisciplinary field of scholarship, yet the volume has a strong thematic identity and therefore represents the formative collection concerning the multiple senses of touch within social science scholarship at this time.
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Enter into the teaching space of master Alexander Technique teacher Tommy Thompson. With compassion and integrity, Tommy's teaching explores the ways in which each of us can belong to the moment and stop defining ourselves by our habits. With its insightful, moving reflections, Touching Presence will inspire Alexander Technique teachers, trainees, and students -- indeed anyone -- to find their own path to being more fully present for themselves and the person in front of them.
Built environment surrounds us for 90% of our lives but only now are we realising its influence on the environment, our health, and how we think, feel and behave both individually and socially. Spirit & Place shows how to work towards a sustainable environment through socially inclusive processes of placemaking, and how to create places that are nourishing psychologically and physically, to soul and spirit as well as body. This book's unique arguments identify important, but often unrecognised, principles and illustrate their applicability in a wide range of situations, price-ranges and climates. It shows how to reconcile the apparently incompatible demands of environmental, economic and social sustainability; how to moderate climate to make places of delight, and realign social pressures so places both support society and maximise economic viability. Thought provoking and easy to understand, Christopher Day uses everyday examples to relate his theories to practice and our experience.
Mind Your Business aims to help its readers find balance in all aspects of life, stating, "We need to have a proper relationship with ourselves, giving love and respect to ourselves, freedom to express ourselves and complete self-acceptance." Ms. Zina Brawer has put together her words and thoughts from her many years of experience as a healer, nutritionist, and Reiki master in many countries into a short read to guide you to improve your body and mind. While there are many self-help books out there with advice on diet, exercise, meditation, energy, and self-love and acceptance, rarely do we find a short and simple guide with all keys to achieve a more fulfilled and extraordinarily healthy life. I have personally benefitted and achieved my dreams from Ms. Brawer's incredible healing powers of Reiki. She writes in her book, and would often whisper to me during our Reiki sessions, "The energy is available. The universe supports us!" Read Mind Your Business and "expand your mind, expand your dreams." -Vanessa Mesia Actor
This world and the next sounds as though there are only two forms of existence, but that is only the beginning. Milton Warner is not only a very gifted medium but his soul travels further than just 'the other side'. He has a challenge: To rid the earth and surrounding spiritual levels of the terrible evil which threatens to destroy everything. He realises there is a specific target, although with every possible answer there are numerous questions. The interaction between the different levels is important for the sake of their eternal existence but only a chosen group have been selected to fulfil the final task. Any previous theory about wormholes or time locks may leave you with a very different outlook on such things when you view them from another perspective. Each character is an individual in their own right, some with unique talents such as spirits Ariel and Fluke, or the spiky Jo, who is a bit wayward and colourful with her retorts. Warning: It may play with your mind.
The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer’s harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route. They had triumphantly reached the summit, when a horrific accident mid-descent forced one friend to leave another for dead. Ambition, morality, fear and camaraderie are explored in this electronic edition of the mountaineering classic, with never before seen colour photographs taken during the trip itself.
Evangelism is about reaching out to others. Really? You think? Brace yourself. In Nudge, author Leonard Sweet sets out to revolutionize our understanding of evangelism. He defines evangelism as “nudge” – awakening each other to the God who is already there. Sweet’s revolution promises to affect your encounters with others, as well as shaking the very roots of your own faith. So brace yourself.