Relieu2023
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Marc Relieu |
| Title | Geometrical Touch: Drawing an Occasioned Map on the Hand |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Ethnomethodology, Conversation analysis, Social studies of touch, Orientation and Mobility, Occasioned maps, Tactile maps |
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| Year | 2023 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Human Studies |
| Volume | 46 |
| Number | 4 |
| Pages | 757–781 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10746-023-09676-4 |
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Abstract
In this paper, based on video recordings of Orientation and Mobility (O&M) lessons for visually-disabled students, I will examine how occasioned maps (Psathas, 1979; Garfinkel, 2002), drawn in the student’s palm are interactionally traced, felt, and noticed in order to represent the shape of a crossing for all practical purposes. Touching will be examined from the perspective of the live production of "trails" on a specific region of the body, the palm of the hand. We will begin to question how such hand-drawing map episodes occur during O&M courses, stressing how the coparticipants establish a participation framework that facilitates the making of the drawing, hand-map drawings are based on lines that are neither evanescent nor permanent. Their “persistence” is not an intrinsic feature but a systematic multimodal accomplishment. We will show how the drawn lines become depictions of the streets and contribute to producing two contrasting geometrical representations of the layout of a junction.
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