Touching Space, Placing Touch

Download or read book Touching Space, Placing Touch written by Mark Paterson and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a rich combination of theoretical resources, methodological approaches and empirical investigation, each of the chapters takes a distinct aspect of touch within a particular spatial context, exploring this through a mixture of sustained empirical work, critical theories of embodiment, philosophical and psychoanalytic approaches to gendered touch and touching, or the relationship between visual and non-visual culture, to articulate something of the variety and variability of touching experiences. The volume has a strong thematic identity and therefore represents the formative collection concerning the multiple senses of touch within social science scholarship at this time..