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oapen-20.500.12657-284272022-04-28T13:10:59Z The Restless Compendium Callard, Felicity Staines, Kimberley Wilkes, James Experiment Interdisciplinarity Rest Restless Rhythm Silence Noise Work Autonomous sensory meridian response Creative Commons license Daydream bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences 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. 2018-09-24 23:55 2020-03-18 13:36:15 2020-04-01T12:22:40Z 2020-04-01T12:22:40Z 2016 book 1001531 OCN: 1076645622 9783319452647 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28427 eng application/pdf n/a Bookshelf_NBK453230.pdf Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-319-45264-7 10.1007/978-3-319-45264-7 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9783319452647 Wellcome Palgrave Macmillan 205 Basingstoke 103817/Z/14/Z Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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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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