Tuning into Heat

Thermoceptive enskilment and insecurity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2263289
AutoresAlana Osbourne (0000-0003-2292-0521, Geography, Planning and Environment Radboud University Nijmegen the Netherlands)
Ano2024
Volume36
Fascículo1
Páginas12-22
Data de publicação2024-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCity & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0893-0465 • E-ISSN: 1548-744X
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/ciso.12475
OpenAlexW4390055217
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas39

In this article, I address how discernments of alterity as insecurity are intimately connected to bodily perceptions and cultural elaborations of heat. Focusing on the interplay of temperature and danger, I look at the role of thermoception-as sensation, as ambient quality, as idiom, and as technology-in experiences and retellings of (in)security. These are themes I explore in relation to and beyond Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT), an intensive practical course that prepares expats, journalists, NGO workers, and other professionals for their travels to areas deemed unsafe. In the course, participants are taught to tap into their embodied sensations and to acquire the sensory skills to identify, avoid, and mitigate danger. Using hotness as gateway into the relation between sensory enskilment and security, this article contributes to literature concerned with the somatechnics of difference: the learnt corporeal, atmospheric, and immaterial forces that structure how we articulate Otherness and/as danger. In so doing, it unpacks how the senses, and thermoception more specifically, contribute to the production and governance of landscapes of insecurity

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