Drawn together by the sea: Swimming, waves, and well-being

Bates, Charlotte ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6099-1262 and Moles, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1926-6525 2024. Drawn together by the sea: Swimming, waves, and well-being. Mike, Brown, ed. The Ocean, Blue Spaces and Outdoor Learning, Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 66-76. (10.4324/9781003272496-6)

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Abstract

Drawing on our immersive and multisensory ethnography of outdoor swimming in the UK, this chapter explores swimmers’ felt and embodied experiences of waves. Beginning at the edge where water meets land in the shallows, plunging through the force of breaking waves, and swimming beyond the break into deep and open water, the chapter shows how the movements of bodies are entwined with the movements of the sea. These encounters produce different sensory and emotional experiences, shape and strengthen friendships and communities, and entangle understandings of risk, joy, and well-being. Thinking and feeling with the movements of the sea, the chapter shows how waves shape our interactions, encounters, relationships, and connections, and how we learn from the sea and each other.

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9781032224114
Last Modified:	02 Aug 2024 10:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/169243

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