CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Holman, Reka |
|---|---|
| Title | A Cognitive Geography of Running: Embodied Urban Experience in Budapest and Berlin |
| Summary | The thesis provides an autoethnographic approach to running in the city defining running as a spatial experience. First it examines the various forms of interaction between the space and the body focusing on conflicts with basic physical elements like the ground, wind or water. It then moves on to running as an urban experience defining the unique event-like temporality of running. It argues that running is not a form of traveling to a given destination and as the activity does not aim to transform the way cities are following a utopian vision it also has no spatial politics of its own. These claims are illustrated by the spatial experiences of running in Berlin and Budapest and the discussion on the relationship to places in these two cities. The thesis concludes with the argument that running can be considered a non-narrative form of the production of knowledge that emerges through a problematic process of recognition in spatial practices. |
| Supervisor | Monterescu, Daniel |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/holman_reka.pdf |
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