Intense Embodiment and Women's 'Weather Work' in Motorcycling
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AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK |
ANO | 2025 |
TIPO | Artigo |
PERIÓDICO | Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies |
ISSN | 1532-7086 |
E-ISSN | 1552-356X |
DOI | 10.1177/15327086251317233 |
ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
Resumo
This article aims to develop the underexamined lived experiences of 'weather work' via the motorcycling 'weather world', addressing the embodied and sensorial learning ways of knowing. Drawing on a phenomenologically inspired approach, I explore the haptic senses of heat and cold via heightening understandings of weather work, aiming to provide key conceptualisations of phenomenological mind-body-world nexus through auto/ethnographic data. This attempts to extend the small, emerging and under investigated literature that utlitises sociological phenomenology to examine the 'sensuousities' of 'intense embodiment' experienced as a woman on a motorcycle. Key themes that were identified as salient: temperature work, touch, and skin wetness perception. These themes offer novel insights into the intersection between gender, embodiment, and sensorial experiences in motorcycling, enriching sociological phenomenology with a nuanced understanding of the ways 'weather work' shapes and is shaped by lived, gendered practices.