Sensual Snowboarding Bodies in Affective Spaces What is Thorpe doing in this Chap 9 I hope to reveal the sensuous snowboarding experience as nothing but the body the principal means whereby the body mingles with the world and with itself overflows its borders Thorpe quoting Serres p 222 Learning about social theories through snowboarding in this chapter learn about theories related to sensual affective aspects of culture How does Thorpe get to this moment in her research in which she is interested to explore the sensual relations of social life within various geographies Thorpe p 220 A sensual revolution in the humanities and social sciences Challenges conventional theories of representation Thorpe p 220 Some scholars came to prefer interpretation qualitative studies and self reflection instead of or in addition to objective quantitative unbiased studies Culture and humans are messy there is no such thing as unbiased thus the study of humans in culture can t be contained in objective scientific study Chapter is inspired by Cultural geography Auto ethnography autoethnography Affective and sensuous scholarship Influential works about the affective sensual and spatial that have influenced academic work on sport physical culture Jean Paul Sartre Michel Serres Brian Massumi Norman Denzin Roland Barthes C L R James Michel Serres declines the rules of engagement that govern academic theory opting instead for a poetic approach that privileges unfolding rather than analysis as quoted by Thorpe p 222 Roland Barthes describes the aims of his teaching I will pursue a phantasmic teaching one based on the comings and goings of desire which the teacher endlessly presents and represents I sincerely believe that at the origins of teaching such as this we must always locate a fantasy which can vary from year to year Roland Barthes Rosalind Krauss trans From The Neutral Session of March 11 1978 October 112 Spring 2005 pp 3 22 C L R James Sports can be studied as visual arts Form lines tones values Sense of movement and aesthetics of that movement Extract the signification of movement Appreciation of the perfect flow of movement Mystical element of physical prowess and response All of these above thinkers helped scholars contemplate What do we research and to what end How to disseminate research in what genre Article text book book review poetry fiction performance virtual What type of narrative Scientific First person Satirical Shock The practices and ethics of authorship Moments or turns in sport physical culture studies were influenced by above thinkers The sociology humanities cultural studies of sport and the body have a history Affective spatial and sensual turns see Thorpe p 220 Early scholarship by John Bale and Ian Borden influenced sport physical culture studies Ian Borden Skateboarding Space and the City pioneering work in the study of senses affect and space Architecture not a thing but is a production of space time and social being Borden p 1 Borden Architecture is a set of flows a set of experiences and reproductions Architecture is not itself space but only a way of looking at space We must move away from seeing architecture only as things imagination as that only of architects mapping as only by drawing and space as only interior fa ade composition and garden Borden pp 6 7 Borden People encounter architecture in conditions of for example danger exhilaration anonymity and sexual freedom as has been shown for such cities as Paris London Berlin Los Angeles Borden p 9 The importance of the skateboard as a device is not solely its manufacture or design but what can be done with it becoming a living component of the body its actions and its self image in relation to the terrain and architecture beyond Borden p 28 John Bale Landscapes of Modern Sport 1994 my basic thesis has been that modern sportscapes are archetypes of modernity their rationalism born of the very anti nature of sport which encourages more than most other forms of culture the tendency towards placelessness Bale p 189 Bale Inherent in the nature of modern achievement sport are great pressures to produce homotopian the sameness of sports places landscapes John Bale 1996 pp 233 248 So Holly Thorpe follows in the tradition of scholars like Serres Massumi Bale and Borden in her Sensual Snowboarding Bodies in Affective Spaces chapter Selected terms Affect affective Affect Feelings emotions sensations experiences meanings can be between bodies Expressions such as music or snowboarding can transmit affect Ethnographic work on affective experiences of snowboarding Take into account the somatic of the body multisensual as many senses as possible in research Never forget the politics and discursive formations of affective experiences Epiphenomena The senses and arts provide scholars of physical culture with more ways to understand the sociology of snowboarding culture This world of epiphenomena from Alfred Jarry Gilles Deleuze enrich our imagination enrich our sense of possibilities highlighting epiphenomena in research gives us an interesting account of the world focusing on epiphenomena allows the faculty of imagination into scholarship An ethnography that illuminates epiphenomena helps bring snowboarding experience closer to our skin Thorpe p 221 vs results from a questionnaire Cultural geography All spaces real imagined virtual historical etc studied as discursive formations Social organization landscapes architecture natural and human made events game forms themselves are understood as being part of and also places themselves All human doings are spatial Human society and history takes place in spaces Culture A semantic terrain a space both historical and spatial where the practices of signification and representation are enacted here people represent themselves and their histories to themselves and others An unfolding process culture is always politically situated conflictual and potentially empowering Charles Fruehling Springwood Cooperstown to Dyersville A Geography of Baseball Nostalgia Boulder Westview Press 1996 pp 11 12 Ethnography Literally writing graphe about people ethnos The central practice of the discipline of anthropology study groups of people through participant observation and produce a report of the findings A practice Thorpe lived with and studied snowboarders she was doing ethnography A product Thorpe wrote an ethnography a published original article book chapter from the results of her ethnographic work