Cultivating the Adventuring Body
How Novices Are Called into Relation with the Landscape, Experienced Others, and Themselves
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3808902 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Maslen (0000-0002-9215-6103, University of Canberra, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 77-100 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Body & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1357-034X • E-ISSN: 1460-3632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1357034x251322079 |
| OpenAlex | W4410449436 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 40 |
This article grapples with the making of habit and the dynamics of knowledge 'in the hands' among outdoor adventurers. Especially in early phases of learning, budding adventurers orient their movement and sense of the environment off the body positions and perceptual judgments of experienced others. The ultimate reference point for action is the mountains themselves, and so a major lesson is one of quiet humility, inhabiting a world that others may have a weaker sense of. They adopt the term 'listening' metaphorically to express how they always organise their bodies in relation to what is happening beyond them. The degree of connectedness to the world is variable. The silence above the snowline heightens focus and expands the bounds of what can be safely achieved, providing a climber's stress and state of health do not get in the way
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Relation (database · Sociology · Animal and Plant Science Education · Art Education and Development · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Risk, Environment and Modernity
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Between and beyond data
Mapping adventure
Women, climbing and serious leisure
Urgent dreams
Hearing Like a Musician
Beyond Two Minds
Phenomenology of Perception
Chancing your arm
Breathing like a Soldier
For a Sociology of Flesh and Blood
Becoming a diagnostic agent
It's the Seeing and Feeling
Vertical worlds
Embodied Action, Enacted Bodies
The Climbing Body, Nature and the Experience of Modernity
Embodiment in High-altitude Mountaineering
Listening-touch, Affect and the Crafting of Medical Bodies through Percussion
Habit and Habitus
Playing Symbolically with Death in Extreme Sports
Habitus and Disposition in High-risk Mountain-climbing
The Perception of the Environment
Thinking with the Mind, Syncing with the Body
Professional Vision
The (re)production of climbing space
Between narrative and practice
Experiencing flow, enjoyment and risk in skydiving and climbing
Street Phenomenology
The Bolt Wars
Endurance Work
Body Pedagogics
Scaffolding Imitation in Capoeira
Techniques of the body∗
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |