SA 322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Henri Lefebvre, Participant Observation, Michel De Certeau
25 May 2018
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SA 322 – Lecture 3
Paper due June 13
- Address each chapter separately
- Bring in your own personal experiences ☺
Co-performative witnessing
- An approach that privileges embodied action as both an object and a method a study.
- Ethnographic technique
- Participant observation
- You get really in the middle of it, talk to people. Your data is you, yourself and your
observations, how you feel. The limitations and strengths
- She speaks about the embodied parts
- Next reading more about pilgrimages (walk)
- FIRST PAPER, TAKE ON THIS TECHNIQUE AND PARTICPATE, AND HOW THAT
PARTICIPATION IS DIFFERENT.
Space
- Motion → time → space → body → culture and society (PENA SPEAKING ABOUT)
- The human body as the bond between all of these things.
- All of the 3 things are mutually dependent, especially how we experience it ^
- Geometric space (objective space, that exists without us actually being there)
- Our bodies are spatial things, we experience time and they are mobile things
- Our bodies are key to who we are, they are completely embodied in society and culture.
- Durkheim said we are born into society
- Culture and society works on us and our bodies and it is also dependent on our bodies.
- Culture that is built around our physical bodies – in Sweden people are tall so things are
bigger.
- Culture is’t eatl our odies ut the ideal od. Ee people ith disailities there is
routes and ways assessible for these things.
- The ways we experience all of these things. (time – age)
- Relation to space because of what our societal and cultural aspects tells us, grow up in
society which have a more cycle time than linear.
- Your cultural upbringing tells you something different than what the culture is in other
places, how to operate in a space.
- Even when we are online, we are using our bodies to interface with others. You use your
eyes to take it in.
Henri Lefebvre: Production of Space
- Natural space/absolute
o The spae that If huas did’t eist ould still e here.
- Social Space
o What he is concerned with. How space gets shaped.
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Document Summary
Bring in your own personal experiences . An approach that privileges embodied action as both an object and a method a study. You get really in the middle of it, talk to people. Your data is you, yourself and your observations, how you feel. First paper, take on this technique and particpate, and how that. Motion time space body culture and society (pena speaking about) The human body as the bond between all of these things. All of the 3 things are mutually dependent, especially how we experience it ^ Geometric space (objective space, that exists without us actually being there) Our bodies are spatial things, we experience time and they are mobile things. Our bodies are key to who we are, they are completely embodied in society and culture. Durkheim said we are born into society. Culture and society works on us and our bodies and it is also dependent on our bodies.
