Exploring the space between words and meaning: Understanding the relational sensibility of surf spaces |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malta, Malta;2. Department of Intelligent Computer System, Faculty of ICT, University of Malta, Malta;3. Department of Computer Information Systems, Faculty of ICT, University of Malta, Malta;4. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Malta, Malta;5. Department of Physics (Astrophysics), University of Oxford, UK;6. Institute of Space Sciences and Astronomy, University of Malta, Malta;1. The University of Edinburgh, UK;2. Queen''s University, Canada;1. State Key Laboratory of Urban and Region Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China;2. Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Via del Borghetto 80, 56124 Pisa, Italy;3. Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China;1. Department of Environmental Science, University of Botswana, Private bag 0022, Gaborone, Botswana;2. 27 Chemin des Corbillettes, 1216 Cointrin, Geneva, Switzerland;1. Department of Geography, Ohio State University, 1036 Derby Hall, 154 N Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210, USA |
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| Abstract: | This paper explores the potential of the written word to evoke emotional engagement with place. Through focussing on the relational sensibilities created through the act of surfing, the paper seeks to explore how these emotions are articulated by surfers in order to share their feelings with others. In doing so it draws attention to the ‘intersubjective space’ (after Thrift, 1996) between writer and reader and its potential to overcome the paradox of representation. In this space the written word has the potential to combine with readers' own experiences, however indirect or tangential, to create a currency of communicated lived experience. In this space, knowledge of surfing is co-created by writer and reader (or by surfer and non-surfer) and becomes freighted with empathic resonance. In order to explore whether the potential of this space can be realised, the paper presents examples of surf writing which seek to communicate the relational sensibility of surfing and asks the reader: can ‘only a surfer know the feeling’? |
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