Outdoor swimming: water, wellbeing, and wildness

Bates, Charlotte ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6099-1262 and Moles, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1926-6525 2024. Outdoor swimming: water, wellbeing, and wildness. Picken, Felicity and Waterton, Emma, eds. Shores, Surfaces and Depths. Oceanic Cultures of Tourism and Leisure, Routledge Studies in Cultural History, Routledge, pp. 177-191. (10.4324/9781003248231-13)

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Abstract

In this chapter, we critically reflect on our relationships with water, well-being, and wildness, and consider how these elements are entangled when we immerse our bodies in the cultural practice and social world of outdoor swimming. We explore how swimming outdoors is understood as ‘just swimming’ or ‘wild swimming’, consider the ways in which ideas of the wild and wildness are woven into personal accounts about who we are, where we go, and how we swim, and show how these different understandings change our individual and collective ways of being, feeling, acting, and living. The chapter offers an alternative account of blue space leisure practices that moves away from accounts of water as purely blue and therapeutic, and positions those claims within the realities of the waters we swim in.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9781032163666
Last Modified:	24 Apr 2025 16:31
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/170268

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