Bovet2023a
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Bovet2023a |
| Author(s) | Alain Bovet, Sara Keel, Marc Relieu |
| Title | Touch and Closeness in Naturally Organized Activities |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Ethnomethodology, Conversation analysis, Touch |
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| Year | 2024 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Human Studies |
| Volume | 46 |
| Number | 4 |
| Pages | 645–653 |
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10746-023-09703-4 |
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Abstract
Countless aspects of touch and closeness have been questioned in an unprecedented way during the recent Covid epidemic. Social practices as banal as greetings were both reflexively and practically challenged and sometimes deeply altered, resulting in painful experiences of tactile deprivation and social isolation for many people. This forced collective experiment produced an unusual awareness of the embodied nature of our relation to the social and material world. As Merleau-Ponty (1964 [1979]) insisted, the body should neither be conceived as being in the world nor as being the world itself; the body is of the world, both part of it and distinct from it. And much of this complex relationship can be enlightened by a better understanding of touch and closeness. The purpose of this special issue is to bring forward empirical studies of a variety of naturally organized activities where touch and closeness play a crucial role, in order to explore their practical and experiential significance.
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