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The inter-corporeal emergence of landscape: negotiating sight, blindness and ideas of landscape in the British countryside

The inter-corporeal emergence of landscape: negotiating sight, blindness and ideas of landscape in the British countryside
The inter-corporeal emergence of landscape: negotiating sight, blindness and ideas of landscape in the British countryside
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.
0308-518X
1042-1054
Macpherson, Hannah
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Macpherson, Hannah
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Macpherson, Hannah (2009) The inter-corporeal emergence of landscape: negotiating sight, blindness and ideas of landscape in the British countryside. Environment and Planning A, 41 (5), 1042-1054. (doi:10.1068/a40365).

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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.

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Published date: May 2009

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Local EPrints ID: 419171
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/419171
ISSN: 0308-518X
PURE UUID: dd5b44fa-4273-4c91-9a2f-1a0cc3e062ba

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