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- Presents new, interdisciplinary insights about rest and its opposites
- Offers inspiration for other research projects
- Includes accounts of how the contributors and editors have tracked and reflected on their work across disciplinary boundaries to investigate rest as an aesthetic, political, physiological and sociological phenomenon
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Minds
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Front Matter
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Bodies
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Front Matter
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Practices
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Front Matter
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About this book
This interdisciplinary book contains 22 essays and interventions on rest and restlessness, silence and noise, relaxation and work. It draws together approaches from artists, literary scholars, psychologists, activists, historians, geographers and sociologists who challenge assumptions about how rest operates across mind, bodies, and practices. Rest’s presence or absence affects everyone. Nevertheless, defining rest is problematic: both its meaning and what it feels like are affected by many socio-political, economic and cultural factors. The authors open up unexplored corners and experimental pathways into this complex topic, with contributions ranging from investigations of daydreaming and mindwandering, through histories of therapeutic relaxation and laziness, and creative-critical pieces on lullabies and the Sabbath, to experimental methods to measure aircraft noise and track somatic vigilance in urban space. The essays are grouped by scale of enquiry, into mind, body and practice, allowing readers to draw new connections across apparently distinct phenomena.
The book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines in the social sciences, life sciences, arts and humanities.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Durham University , Durham, United Kingdom
Felicity Callard
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Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
Kimberley Staines, James Wilkes
About the editors
Felicity Callard is Director of Hubbub, The Hub at Wellcome Collection, UK and Professor in Social Science for Medical Humanities at Durham University, UK.
Kimberley Staines is Project Coordinator at Hubbub, The Hub at Wellcome Collection, UK and an employee of Durham University, UK, with a background in law and publishing.
James Wilkes is Associate Director of Hubbub, The Hub at Wellcome Collection, UK. He is a poet, writer and Senior Researcher at the Department of Geography, Durham University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Restless Compendium
Book Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Investigations of Rest and Its Opposites
Editors: Felicity Callard, Kimberley Staines, James Wilkes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45264-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-45263-0Published: 07 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83253-1Published: 15 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-45264-7Published: 27 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 205
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Medical Sociology, Health Psychology, Sociology of Culture