School of Geographical Sciences, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China.
School of Tourism Management, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Dec 21;19(1):43. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19010043.
This paper examines how spaces of health are produced through embodied and affective practices in marathon running in China. While the social-cultural effects of distance running have gained increasing attention among public health scholars and policymakers, there has been little effort paid to the spatiality of running and its contributions to producing healthy spaces for the general public. This paper therefore fills the lacuna through a qualitative study that was conducted with 29 amateur marathon runners in China. Drawing on the Gioia Methodology in coding and analyzing qualitative data, we highlight the interactive effects of body, wearable technology, and affective atmospheres in producing what we call "embodied space of health." We suggest that the embodied space of health is not simply the bodily experience per se but rather a relational space constituted through the co-production of body, non-human objects, and space/place. It is through these relational spaces that the effects of health and well-being (e.g., self-exploration and therapeutic feelings) emerge in marathon.
本文考察了在中国马拉松运动中，通过身体和情感实践是如何产生健康空间的。虽然距离跑步的社会文化影响在公共卫生学者和政策制定者中受到越来越多的关注，但对于跑步的空间性及其对大众健康空间的贡献却鲜有研究。因此，本文通过对中国 29 名业余马拉松运动员的定性研究填补了这一空白。本文采用 Gioia 方法论对定性数据进行编码和分析，强调了身体、可穿戴技术和情感氛围在产生我们所谓的“健康身体空间”方面的交互作用。我们认为，健康身体空间不仅仅是身体本身的体验，而是通过身体、非人类物体和空间/地点的共同产生而构成的关系空间。正是通过这些关系空间，健康和幸福感（例如自我探索和治疗感）才会在马拉松运动中显现出来。
