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AUTOR(ES) Helen Owton
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.

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