A disposition of risk
Climbing practice, reflexive modernity and the habitus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2399338 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Bunn (0000-0001-6184-5312, University of Newcastle Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-17 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1440-7833 • E-ISSN: 1741-2978 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1440783316643424 |
| OpenAlex | W2421984751 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 34 |
The paper utilizes climbing practice to examine how risk societies generate risk consciousness in agents. It critiques the cognitive basis of reflexivity, particularly in Beck's work, and seeks an alternative rooted in embodied practice. Sweetman's 'reflexive habitus' serves as a starting point to synthesize a relationship between Ulrich Beck's risk society and Bourdieu's theory of practice. However, it is argued that both Sweetman and Beck overstate the shift reflexive modernity implies. Instead, the article focuses on Bourdieu's account of 'regulated improvisation' to argue that, as fields become more ambiguous, agents must make use of improvisation to match their subjective capacities with objective possibilities. For climbers, this involves a slow development of the perceptual basis for climbing risks. This allows risk to become perceptively controllable, whereby climbers can manage the basis of the risks they take through a host of options, including the length, remoteness and severity of a climbing route
Climbing · Consciousness · Cultural capital · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Habitus · Improvisation · Modernity · Practice theory · Reflexivity · Risk society · Social science · Sociology · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
“It’s Beyond You, But You’re A Part of It”
Understanding risk-taking behaviours through the practice-oriented risk habitus and multiple-capital model (P-HAC)
Bourdieu and early career researchers (ECRs) in disaster research
The temporal dimension of reflexivity
The Perils of Rock n’ Roll Decadence
Freeride Skiing-Risk-Taking, Recognition, and Moral Boundaries
In the anytime
Risk Epistemologies and Aesthetic Reflexivity of a Disaster-Affected Community
The Limits of Risk
Risk Society
On the Fireline
The Body in Consumer Culture
Body and Soul
Ethnography in/of the World System
Habitus, Freedom, and Reflexivity
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Inside–out
Heading into the unknown
The Logic of Practice
Insider Research’ in the Study of Youth Cultures
Urgent dreams
Climbing Monsters
Existential Transcendence in Late Modernity
Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment
Risk society
Bourdieu, Feminism and Female Physical Culture
Chancing your arm
Pugs at Work
Twenty-First Century Dis-Ease? Habitual Reflexivity Or the Reflexive Habitus
Habit(us), Body Techniques and Body Callusing
Governmentality, Temporality and Practice
He Didn't Go in Doing a Skydive
Action and edgework
The Bolt Wars
Gender, Habitus and the Field
From Industrial Society to the Risk Society
Bourdieu, Gender Reflexivity, and Physical Culture
Beck's Sociology of Risk
The reflexive subject
Edgework
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |