Compulsive Body Spaces (Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity)
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Diana Beljaars
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Diana Beljaars
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Compulsive Body Spaces presents a spatial understanding of compulsion. Providing a compelling account of the lives of 15 people with Tourette syndrome, it demystifies the seemingly irrational, purposeless and meaningless character of this behaviour. It demonstrates how attending to the spatial circumstances under which compulsive acts, like touching, ordering, and aligning objects take place, can produce valuable new insights to complement neuroscientific, psychiatric and psychological knowledge.
Focusing on the sensory, material, and social environment of the body during compulsive acts, the book establishes how configurations of bodies, objects, and spaces disrupt people’s lives or allow them to thrive.
This collaborative, qualitative study that is based on in-depth interviews, observations, and mobile eye-tracking places the book at the forefront of patient emancipation in medical research, neurodiversity-aligned inquiry, and gives rise to a renewed consideration of what empathetic, context-sensitive care may look like in the 21st century. In turn, its insights give rise to a groundbreaking spatial conceptualisation of wellbeing.
Considering the compulsive capacities of a broader humanity, Compulsive Body Spaces highlights the compulsive dimension in bodily spatiality, which underpins core theories of human life as embodied and enacted.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars in science and technology studies, human geography, sociology, health and social care, medical humanities, continental philosophy and disability studies. People with Tourette's, OCD, or anyone who has experienced compulsive tendencies will relate to many of the compulsions discussed in the book. Beljaars' gentle explorations will help reflections on these experiences in new and meaningful ways.
©2022, 2023 Taylor and Francis Group (P)2025 Diana BeljaarsCe que les critiques en disent
“This book is highly original. It offers a holistic analysis of the corporeal and experiential fact of compulsive behaviour that’s launched from the ‘insider’ perspective. While focused on Tourette’s syndrome, it has wider relevance to the study of people whose well-being is necessarily shaped by their immediate environment. The book is among the first to elucidate compulsive behaviour in its total bodily and mental context. This data offers strong insights into the affective dimensions of TS – it is rich and paints a clear and convincing picture, aided by the author’s familial experience of TS. I believe the book offers a model of empathic patient-focused research that has implications for future research and patient care.” —Professor Noel Castree, University of Manchester
“This book makes a very clearly original contribution, by developing a systematic geographic and posthumanist approach to compulsive acts, such as those expressed by people living with Tourette’s Disorder. It is far-reaching in its ambition, as it considers what difference it makes to our understanding of compulsivity when we shift the focus from the nervous system and biological body to a greater understanding of the body’s relationship to the environment (broadly conceived). It is emphatically rigorous, both in the care that it takes with framing and the words used to discuss compulsive conditions, and in terms of the original methodological approach that combines in-depth interviews with participants and mobile-eye tracking methods (extremely innovative in the discipline). This is a considerable achievement.” —Dr Angharad Closs-Stephens, Swansea University
“This book is outstandingly novel in terms of its paradigm-setting ambitions and its development of concepts, and it is likely to become a primary point of reference for the field, and a formative influence on the development of its intellectual agenda.” —Professor Marcus Doel, Swansea University