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Article Dans Une Revue Human Studies Année : 2023

Geometrical Touch: Drawing an occasioned map on the hand

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In this paper, based on video recordings of Orientation and Mobility (O&M) lessons for visually-disabled students, I will examine how occasioned maps (Psathas, 1979, Garfinkel, 2002), drawn in the student’s palm are interactionally traced, felt, and noticed in order to represent the shape of a crossing for all practical purposes. Touching will be examined from the perspective of the live production of "trails" on a specific region of the body, the palm of the hand. We will begin to question how such hand-drawing map episodes occur during O&M courses, stressing how the coparticipants establish a participation framework that facilitates the making of the drawing, hand-map drawings are based on lines that are neither evanescent nor permanent. Their “persistence” is not an intrinsic feature, but a systematic multimodal accomplishment. We will show how the drawn lines become depictions of the streets and contribute to producing two contrasting geometrical representations of the layout of a junction.
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hal-04096986 , version 1 (14-05-2023)

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Marc Relieu. Geometrical Touch: Drawing an occasioned map on the hand. Human Studies, 2023, 46, pp.757-781. ⟨10.1007/s10746-023-09676-4⟩. ⟨hal-04096986⟩
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