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Moving Bodies in Interaction – Interacting Bodies in Motion: Intercorporeality, interkinesthesia, and enaction in sports
Edited by Christian Meyer and Ulrich v. Wedelstaedt
[Advances in Interaction Studies 8] 2017
► pp. 173–191

Chapter 7
Intercorporeal enaction and synchrony

The case of distance running together

Whilst there exists a substantial literature providing abstract theorizations of sport, there is relatively sparse ethnographic research addressing the mundane practices of actually “doing sport” and specifically, “doing sport together”. To address such lacunae, this chapter offers an in-depth, phenomenologically inspired analysis of training together for distance running as requiring finely attuned interaction and intercorporeality. Here, we focus specifically upon the sensory and interactional work we undertake, which constitutes an essential component in our experience of running-together. Employing sociological phenomenology as the theoretical framework, we draw on data from a collaborative autoethnographic project to explore and analyze in detail our various intercorporeal practices and processes, fundamental to the enaction of training-together for distance running.

Keywords: autoethnography, intercorporeality, phenomenology, running, sociology
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Sociological phenomenology
  • The collaborative autoethnographic running project
  • The findings
    • Rhythm and timing
    • Typifying the other
    • Auditory attunement
    • The interrogatory glance
  • Concluding comments – intuition or attunement?
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 14 August 2017
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