POSPÍŠILOVÁ, Lucie, Pavel DOBOŠ and Robert OSMAN. Movement refrains of people with visual impairments: A post-phenomenological geography beyond space and place. Moravian Geographical Reports. Sciendo, 2024, vol. 32, No 2, p. 80-89. ISSN 1210-8812. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2024-0007.
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Original name Movement refrains of people with visual impairments: A post-phenomenological geography beyond space and place
Authors POSPÍŠILOVÁ, Lucie, Pavel DOBOŠ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Robert OSMAN (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
Edition Moravian Geographical Reports, Sciendo, 2024, 1210-8812.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 50701 Cultural and economic geography
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 2.500 in 2022
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2024-0007
UT WoS 001262639200001
Keywords in English refrain; space; place; post-phenomenology; visual impairment; Czech Republic
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
The paper intervenes in current discussions within post-phenomenological geography. It analyzes the movement of people with visual impairments in order to develop an approach to post-phenomenology that emphasizes the in-betweenness of bodies in motion. Our perspective differs from phenomenological (and humanistic) geographies and from post-phenomenological geographies that are rooted in object-oriented ontology. They both rely on the differentiation between space and place, accept pointillism, treat places as points in space, time as exclusively chronological, and bodies as beings, not becomings. We analyze data from interviews with people with visual impairments. We first consider their movement through the perspective of humanistic (particularly phenomenological) geography. After acknowledging the limits of this approach, we turn to our actualized conception of post-phenomenological geography, which draws on Deleuze’s concepts of movement, path, refrain, and involuntary memory. With this conceptual repertoire, we go beyond the space-place dichotomy and highlight the in-betweenness and virtuality of movement. We explore difference-producing repetitions, which are constituted through refraining into paths. Our approach conceptualizing movement as “refraining into paths” is instrumental to studying the movement of people with visual impairment: It helps to dispute ableism, and it enriches the current discussion about post-phenomenological geography in its insistence on relations and becoming.
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GA20-03708S, research and development projectName: Geografie znevýhodnění: nevidomá zkušenost s urbánním prostorem
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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