Interspecies intercorporeality and mediated haptic sociality: distributing perception with a guide dog
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Interspecies intercorporeality and mediated haptic sociality: distributing perception with a guide dog. / Due, Brian Lystgaard.
In: Visual Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2023, p. 3-16.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Interspecies intercorporeality and mediated haptic sociality: distributing perception with a guide dog
AU - Due, Brian Lystgaard
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Some visually impaired people/persons (VIP) use guide dogs to help them navigate when walking outdoors, e.g. when shopping, visiting friends or going to work. In this article, I show how a VIP and his dog function as an interspecies assemblage, in which they co-operate to accomplish navigating and avoiding obstacles. Based on ethnomethodological multimodal conversation analysis and video ethnographic methodology, the article introduces the concepts of interspecies intercorporeality, which relates to bodily connection, and mediated haptic sociality to describe the transferral of sensory feedback through the dog harness, and thereby shows how the VIP and the dog co-operate in situ. The article contributes to visual studies by highlighting how senses other than the visual are made relevant for accomplishing simple navigational tasks, and how perception of the world is achieved through a distribution of perception-related actions.
AB - Some visually impaired people/persons (VIP) use guide dogs to help them navigate when walking outdoors, e.g. when shopping, visiting friends or going to work. In this article, I show how a VIP and his dog function as an interspecies assemblage, in which they co-operate to accomplish navigating and avoiding obstacles. Based on ethnomethodological multimodal conversation analysis and video ethnographic methodology, the article introduces the concepts of interspecies intercorporeality, which relates to bodily connection, and mediated haptic sociality to describe the transferral of sensory feedback through the dog harness, and thereby shows how the VIP and the dog co-operate in situ. The article contributes to visual studies by highlighting how senses other than the visual are made relevant for accomplishing simple navigational tasks, and how perception of the world is achieved through a distribution of perception-related actions.
U2 - 10.1080/1472586X.2021.1951620
DO - 10.1080/1472586X.2021.1951620
M3 - Journal article
VL - 38
SP - 3
EP - 16
JO - Visual Studies
JF - Visual Studies
SN - 1472-586X
IS - 1
ER -
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