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Weather-wise? Sporting embodiment, weather work and weather learning in running and triathlon

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Anu Vaittinen

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Abstract

© 2018, The Author(s) 2018. Weather experiences are currently surprisingly under-explored and under-theorised in sociology and sport sociology, despite the importance of weather in both routine, everyday life and in recreational sporting and physical–cultural contexts. To address this lacuna, we examine here the lived experience of weather, including ‘weather work’ and ‘weather learning’, in our specific physical–cultural worlds of distance-running, triathlon and jogging in the United Kingdom. Drawing on a theoretical framework of phenomenological sociology, and the findings from five separate auto/ethnographic projects, we explore the ‘weather-worlds’ and weather work involved in our physical–cultural engagement. In so doing, we address ongoing sport sociological concerns about embodiment and somatic, sensory learning and ways of knowing. We highlight how weather work provides a key example of the phenomenological conceptualisation of the mind–body–world nexus in action, with key findings delineating weather learning across the meteorological seasons that contour our British weather-related training.

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Author(s): Allen-Collinson J, Jennings G, Vaittinen A, Owton H

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: International Review for the Sociology of Sport

Year: 2019

Volume: 54

Issue: 7

Pages: 777-792

Print publication date: 01/11/2019

Online publication date: 15/03/2018

Acceptance date: 02/04/2016

ISSN (print): 1012-6902

ISSN (electronic): 1461-7218

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690218761985

DOI: 10.1177/1012690218761985

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