Water, skin and touch

Migrant Bathing Assemblages

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3978077
AutoresGordon Waitt (0000-0003-1123-1288, University of Wollongong), Louisa Welland (University of Wollongong)
Año2019
Volumen20
Número1
Páginas24-42
Fecha de publicación2019-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2017.1347271
OpenAlexW2728147234
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas21
Referencias citadas53

This paper offers a contribution to cultures of urban water research through household ethnographies conducted with 16 participants who migrated from Burma to Sydney, Australia. We draw on a strand of corppreal feminism and offer the concept of bathing assemlbages to interpet how watery skin encounters provide clues to how participants washed themselves in their ‘home’ country may presist, transform or stop. Our analysis maps how dimensions of the self (ethical, gender, class, ethnic, national faith and others) are constituted by, and generative of, the felt intensities of watery encounters through different bathing assemblages. This paper illustrates how bathing practices are shaped as much by emotional and affective intensities as by reasoned activity. We show the utility of corporeal feminism not only for theorising subjectivity, but also for household sustainability politics

Archaeology · Bathing · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Faith · Feminism · Geography · Sociology · Subjectivity · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Water Governance and Infrastructure