Differentiating the time-geography of recreational running |
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Authors: | Mattias Qviström Linnea Fridell Mattias Kärrholm |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences , Uppsala, Sweden Mattias.qvistrom@slu.sehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6070-1744;3. Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences , Alnarp, Sweden;4. Department of Architecture and the Built Environment, Lund University , Lund, Sweden https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4971-2733 |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACT This paper proposes a relational time-geography approach to differentiate the geographies of recreational activities, whose place cannot be pinned down to a single specific infrastructure or area and therefore risks being marginalised in planning. Running is used as a case study. Based on diary-interviews, we have identified three different exercises/places used alternately by the respondents: the forest run; ‘the most boring route in the world’; and the tourist run. We argue that the time-geography of runners could be conceptualised as a rhythm of place dependencies, where different places afford complementary qualities. By allowing for a negotiation of the spatio-temporal constraints of everyday life, these different places (and their affordances) are of crucial importance for motivation and exercise. |
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Keywords: | Affordances jogging outdoor exercise recreational mobilities relational time-geography solicited diaries |
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