Sensing environments and bodies through sensory ecology.

This theoretical article develops the concept “Sensory Ecology” to elucidate how one might come to develop and understand the creation of specialist bodily knowledge found in sport, including knowledge of the environment, spatialities, temporalities, and materialities. Sensory ecologies provides theoretical frameworks for traversing embodied ontologies, for exploring the cultural specificities of sensing the moving and sporting body and it's environments. As athletes are encountering rapidly changing environments through material bodily interactions, sport management researchers need to take account of the social and cultural contexts which shape the ways in which people know their bodies and the world by sculpting the foundation of sensorial experiences. They frame how we sense, which senses we privilege over others, and what constitutes a sense and way of being in the world, a way of being that attuned to processes of environmental change.

Cite: Carter, T. F., Heath, S., Jacobs, S., & Rana, J. (2022). Sensory ecologies: the refinement of movement and the senses in sport. The Senses and Society, 17(3), 241–251. doi: 10.1080/17458927.2022.2122693

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