Rehab/ituation from a Phenomenological Perspective: The Case of Fencing for the Blind and Visually Impaired
The emerging discipline of fencing for the blind and visually impaired is a distinct practice that calls for the unconventional employment of perceptual affordances and bodily doings. This paper explores the meaning of ability and agency in narratives of blind and visually impaired fencers’ lived ex...
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2019-04-01
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| description | The emerging discipline of fencing for the blind and visually impaired is a distinct practice that calls for the unconventional employment of perceptual affordances and bodily doings. This paper explores the meaning of ability and agency in narratives of blind and visually impaired fencers’ lived experiences. By focusing on narratives of risk taking, active handling, and creativity, we have identified three specific ways in which fencers experience their being-in-the-world. Our findings suggest that instead of rehabilitating to the norm, fencing contributes to rehab/ituation: conceptualising the rearrangement of one’s body schema according to personal affordances. This concept, which is present in the notion of 'rehab/ituation' as opposed to rehabilitation, makes possible a more creative and inclusive way of being in the world. Our respondents’ stories of intelligence in the flesh, know-how and ability, are stories of fitting – whereas disorientations and disruptions represent a sort of misfitting between the body and an environment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-39a7836fdb6f47d083fbfac6783875792023-09-02T11:57:58ZengStockholm University PressScandinavian Journal of Disability Research1745-30112019-04-0121110.16993/sjdr.559517Rehab/ituation from a Phenomenological Perspective: The Case of Fencing for the Blind and Visually ImpairedAna Koncul0Jenny Slatman1University of Southeast NorwayTilburg School of Humanities and Digital SciencesThe emerging discipline of fencing for the blind and visually impaired is a distinct practice that calls for the unconventional employment of perceptual affordances and bodily doings. This paper explores the meaning of ability and agency in narratives of blind and visually impaired fencers’ lived experiences. By focusing on narratives of risk taking, active handling, and creativity, we have identified three specific ways in which fencers experience their being-in-the-world. Our findings suggest that instead of rehabilitating to the norm, fencing contributes to rehab/ituation: conceptualising the rearrangement of one’s body schema according to personal affordances. This concept, which is present in the notion of 'rehab/ituation' as opposed to rehabilitation, makes possible a more creative and inclusive way of being in the world. Our respondents’ stories of intelligence in the flesh, know-how and ability, are stories of fitting – whereas disorientations and disruptions represent a sort of misfitting between the body and an environment.https://www.sjdr.se/articles/559fencing for blind and visually impairedlived experiencedis/abilityagencymis/fittingrehab/ituation |
| spellingShingle | Ana Koncul Jenny Slatman Rehab/ituation from a Phenomenological Perspective: The Case of Fencing for the Blind and Visually Impaired Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research fencing for blind and visually impaired lived experience dis/ability agency mis/fitting rehab/ituation |
| title | Rehab/ituation from a Phenomenological Perspective: The Case of Fencing for the Blind and Visually Impaired |
| title_full | Rehab/ituation from a Phenomenological Perspective: The Case of Fencing for the Blind and Visually Impaired |
| title_fullStr | Rehab/ituation from a Phenomenological Perspective: The Case of Fencing for the Blind and Visually Impaired |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rehab/ituation from a Phenomenological Perspective: The Case of Fencing for the Blind and Visually Impaired |
| title_short | Rehab/ituation from a Phenomenological Perspective: The Case of Fencing for the Blind and Visually Impaired |
| title_sort | rehab ituation from a phenomenological perspective the case of fencing for the blind and visually impaired |
| topic | fencing for blind and visually impaired lived experience dis/ability agency mis/fitting rehab/ituation |
| url | https://www.sjdr.se/articles/559 |
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