Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
6-2021
Abstract
This paper explores the affective formation of health and space/place through an examination of the affective, bodily and digital practices of marathon runners in China. By elaborating on the idea of “affective spaces of health”, we investigate not only the affective potential of running bodies that enables a therapeutic and individualised form of selfhood in response to the post-socialist transformation but also the affective atmospheres that condition and discipline runners’ affective capacities of health. The paper therefore questions the simplistic association of health with particular qualities of place and calls for studying the affective and fluid spaces of health.
Keywords
running, bodies, affect, affective space of health, wearable technologies
Discipline
Asian Studies | Sports Studies
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Health & Place
Volume
70
First Page
1
Last Page
7
ISSN
1353-8292
Embargo Period
7-6-2021
Citation
CAI, Xiaomei, WOODS, Orlando, & GAO, Quan.(2021). Running bodies and the affective spaces of health in and beyond marathon running in China. Health & Place, 70, 1-7.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3321
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