Tuning in: using photo-talk approaches to explore young people’s everyday relations with local beaches

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Abstract

Attunement, connectedness and an ‘in tune-ness’ with places have repeatedly been proposed to be central to sustainable, reciprocal human-environment relations and in turn, wellbeing. In this paper, I examine young people’s emplaced and embodied attunements with local beaches bordering the neighbourhoods in which they live. More specifically, the possibilities of participatory photo-talk approaches for sensing and accessing people’s attunements to beachplaces are proposed. Participants’ views on using photo-talk approaches are foregrounded, including the prompt and momentum given to exploring embodied feelings and experiences. The ways that photo-talk supported a shared exploration of the diverse relational entanglements of human and more-than-human beach entities are also considered. In turn, the value of such approaches for helping to ‘show’ and ‘feel’ place-specific understandings and practices of beaching, including mutually constituted wellbeing a/effects, is proposed. Following in the footprints of others, I suggest the methodological and pedagogical potential of photo-talk approaches to researchers and educators in sport, health, physical education and leisure settings when examining embodied and emplaced experiences of wellbeing.

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Cosgriff, M. (2023). Tuning in: using photo-talk approaches to explore young people’s everyday relations with local beaches. Sport, Education and Society, 28(6), 629–640. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2023.2170345

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