“I Don't Know Why They Call it the Lake District They Might as Well Call it the Rock District!” The Workings of Humour and Laughter in Research with Members of Visually Impaired Walking Groups
“I Don't Know Why They Call it the Lake District They Might as Well Call it the Rock District!” The Workings of Humour and Laughter in Research with Members of Visually Impaired Walking Groups
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“我不知道为什么他们称其为湖区，他们还不如称其为岩石区！对视障步行群体成员进行的幽默和笑声的研究
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10.1068/d2708
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2008
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Hannah Macpherson
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Hannah Macpherson
幽默和笑声是社会体现的现象，在访谈、民族志或其他社会研究环境中可能很明显。在本文中，我认为我们应该在我们的研究叙述中融入幽默和笑声，而不是简单地将这些主题归入我们文字记录中的括号中。利用博士研究进行了与专家视障步行团体的成员，我展示了如何笑声和幽默形成一个临时的声音元素，他们通过的景观和笑声和幽默是如何被用来谈判之间的关系有远见的指南和步行者，缓解紧张，颠覆刻板印象。我认为，应承认笑和幽默作为一个有意识的反思策略和“非代表性的”体现和传染性的现象，笑和幽默都密切相关的视觉障碍的步行者的主体位置和体现，肌肉的步行本身的做法。我注意到，虽然幽默是一种有用的个人应对策略，使失明的人从“盲人”作为怜悯对象的概念中解放出来，但笑声和幽默也可能流露出某种悲观主义，有时被用作应对的方式，而不是实际挑战，他们作为农村空间的用户所面临的一些微妙的偏见。
Humour and laughter are socioembodied phenomena which may be evident in interview, ethnographic, or other social research settings. In this paper I argue that we should engage with humour and laughter in our research accounts, rather than simply relegate these themes to the brackets in our transcripts. Drawing upon doctoral research carried out with members of specialist visually impaired walking groups, I show how laughter and humour form a temporary sonic element to the landscapes they pass through and how laughter and humour are used to negotiate the relations between sighted guide and walker, relieve nervousness, and subvert stereotypes. I argue that recognition should be given to laughter and humour as both a conscious reflective strategy and a ‘nonrepresentational’ embodied and contagious phenomenon, for laughter and humour are intimately connected both to the subject positions of walkers with visual impairments and to the embodied, muscular practice of walking itself. I note that, while humour is a useful individual coping strategy that gives people with blindness a sense of liberation from a notion of ‘the blind’ as subjects of pity, laughter and humour can also betray a certain pessimism—sometimes used as a way of coping with, rather than actually challenging, some of the subtle prejudices that they face as users of rural space.