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(2018) Choreographing the airport, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The airport is somewhere where we are often solitary but always in proximity to others, where our bodily practices vacillate between acute corporeal awareness and disembodied unconsciousness. Through the transiting and travel experience—turbulence, jet lag, periods of waiting, dehydration, crowdedness—we are brought intimately into sensory contact with our viscera, normally hidden from view in what phenomenologist Drew Leder called a mode of dys-appearance (1996); and into spatial, scalar and temporal relation to "here," "there" and to others. This chapter journeys into fine-grained corporeal movement analyses of moving through the airport space, ultimately demonstrating how the experience of self-self distance brings travellers into perceptual awareness of their own habituated ways of being.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69572-3_3
Full citation:
Shih Pearson, J. (2018). Mass transits, micro transitions, in Choreographing the airport, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 61-82.
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