Negotiating nature’s weather worlds in the context of life with sight impairment
dc.contributor.author | Bell, SL | |
dc.contributor.author | Leyshon, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Phoenix, C | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-12-18T14:50:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-01-11 | |
dc.description.abstract | We have seen longstanding research interest in diverse nature-society relations, including contentious debates regarding what nature is, the role of humans within or apart from it, and how varied types of non-human nature shape different societies and individuals within society. Within this work, relatively little attention has been paid to an important aspect of nature experienced everyday; people’s “weather-worlds”. These encompass the qualities of sensory experience that are shaped by fluxes in the 2 medium – the air – in which we routinely live and breathe. Such currents, forces and pressure gradients underwrite our capacities to act and interact with both the animate and inanimate materials and beings we encounter as we negotiate our everyday lives. We focus on these weather worlds here, drawing on the findings of an in-depth qualitative study exploring how people with varying forms and severities of sight impairment describe their nature experiences; with the weather emerging as an immediate and often highly visceral form of everyday nature encounter amongst all participants. We reflect on the ephemeral qualities of people’s weather-worlds, highlighting their potential to comfort, invigorate and connect, but also to disorientate, threaten and isolate, at times supporting moments of wellbeing, at others exacerbating experiences of impairment and disability. In doing so, we highlight how attending to the weather is essential if we are to fully understand people’s emplaced experiences of wellbeing, impairment and disability with(in) diverse forms of multi-elemental, assembled ‘nature’. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 11 January 2019 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/tran.12285 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | ES/N015851/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/35196 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Wiley | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2019 The Authors. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | |
dc.subject | England | en_GB |
dc.subject | qualitative | en_GB |
dc.subject | weather | en_GB |
dc.subject | nature | en_GB |
dc.subject | visual impairment | en_GB |
dc.subject | disability | en_GB |
dc.title | Negotiating nature’s weather worlds in the context of life with sight impairment | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2018-12-18T14:50:24Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0020-2754 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Wiley via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2018-11-30 | |
exeter.funder | ::Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2018-11-30 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2018-12-18T10:24:28Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2019-01-23T15:54:07Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
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