https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/pandpr/index.php/pandpr/issue/feedPhenomenology & Practice2024-01-01T22:37:45-07:00Tone Saevitone.saevi@vid.noOpen Journal Systems<p>ISSN: 1913-4711</p> <p><em>Phenomenology & Practice</em> is a refereed, human science journal dedicated to the study of the lived experience of a broad range of human practices.</p>https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/pandpr/index.php/pandpr/article/view/29554Putting Phenomenology Back into Phenomenology2023-11-26T19:05:28-07:00Tone Saevi<p>This is a review of Michael van Manen's & Max van Manen's (Eds.) <em>Classic Writing for a Phenomenology of Practice,</em> published by Routledge.</p>2023-11-26T00:00:00-07:00Copyright (c) 2023 Phenomenology & Practicehttps://journals.library.ualberta.ca/pandpr/index.php/pandpr/article/view/29532A Review of Stephen K. Levine’s Philosophy of Expressive Arts Therapy: Poiesis and the Therapeutic Imagination. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 20192022-12-04T14:02:24-07:00Brooke Leifso<p>This article reviews Stephen K. Levine’s 2019 book, <em>Philosophy of Expressive Arts Therapy: Poiesis and the Therapeutic Imagination. </em>The book, complete with poetry and anecdotes is connected to larger concepts in psychology, phenomenology and philosophy. The article summarizes the books contents and offers a review from the perspective of phenomenology and the expressive art practice.</p>2023-11-26T00:00:00-07:00Copyright (c) 2023 Phenomenology & Practicehttps://journals.library.ualberta.ca/pandpr/index.php/pandpr/article/view/29512A Phenomenology of the Speech-Language Pathologist's Coming to a Diagnosis2022-07-02T20:21:22-06:00Janine Chesworth<div> <p>For most of us, learning to communicate is as effortless as breathing, and like air, communication skills are elemental; integral to our human existence in this world. Our communicative competencies might be seen as a bridge, facilitating our relationship with the world we are immersed in. But what happens when a child has difficulty learning to communicate effectively? What happens when their most basic messages of hunger or thirst fail to be understood or they are unable to jointly share in everyday experiences of curiosity, joy, frustration, or anger? In these situations, it is the role of the Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) to span the distance between a child and their family, a child and the world, building a route for life experiences and understandings to cross over. An SLP often begins with assessment and after a brief interaction, an SLP may come to a ‘naming’ such as <em>delay</em> or <em>disorder</em>. While the caring professional may intend this naming to be helpful in better understanding a child or facilitating access to valuable support, this naming may also place an immeasurable weight upon the child and their family. The act of naming is therefore an ethical concern. Through observation and interviews, this paper presentation explores SLP’s experiences of coming to a diagnosis through the human lens of phenomenological inquiry. It seeks to enhance thoughtful and conscientious practice by considering the ‘ethical experience of caring responsibility’ as applied to SLP (van Manen, 2016).</p> </div>2023-11-26T00:00:00-07:00Copyright (c) 2023 Phenomenology & Practicehttps://journals.library.ualberta.ca/pandpr/index.php/pandpr/article/view/29516They Have Once Before Lived2022-09-05T09:00:50-06:00Michael McLane<p style="font-weight: 400;">The present essay offers a phenomenological examination of peoples’ experiences of place memory. What is it like when the memory of a place is awoken in the event of daily life? What is it about the experience of certain places that make them significant? How might the experience of strong place memory be described so that it may become better understood? What features anchor a memory of place to our experience of the present? To ask these questions requires an orientation to the lived experience of resonant place. For the purposes of this piece, two themes – resonance as the realization of independence, and resonance as unsettled expectation – are described as unique structures of human experience.</p>2023-11-26T00:00:00-07:00Copyright (c) 2023 Phenomenology & Practicehttps://journals.library.ualberta.ca/pandpr/index.php/pandpr/article/view/29412En-Fleshed Practicing in Organisations Flesh as Elemental Carnality and Formative Medium for Organising Sustainability Development2020-06-11T06:43:30-06:00Wendelin Küpers<p><span lang="EN-US">Based on Merleau-Pontys’s philosophy of flesh, this paper outlines possibilities for organisational practices towards sustainability development. In order to elucidate these en-fleshed practices, the paper begins by presenting Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of the body and perception as well as his ontology of ‘flesh’. In particular, flesh is interpreted as elemental ‘carnality’ and formative medium. As such, it is processed through sensual and reflexive doubling as a reversibility and chiasm of the sentient and the sensible. This understanding opens for the path to a post-dualistic, transformative approach towards processes of post-dualistic ‘wild being and ‘</span><span lang="EN-GB">inter-be(com)ing’</span><span lang="EN-US"> in organisations</span><span lang="EN-GB">. </span><span lang="EN-US">These concepts of Flesh are related to affect and imagination as well as organization and sustainability. The paper then offers some practical and political as well as research implications and concludes with some final perspectives on possible enfleshed inter-practices of sustainability.</span></p>2023-11-26T00:00:00-07:00Copyright (c) 2023 Phenomenology & Practicehttps://journals.library.ualberta.ca/pandpr/index.php/pandpr/article/view/29534Kinship with Piglets 2023-06-02T06:20:32-06:00Megan Tucker<p>Our own animately e/motional bodies are yearning for relationships with other bodies of the more-than-human kind. To support this opinion, I describe an intra-action caring for three rescued piglets that led to an awareness of human animal and animal-other relationships. The following questions are addressed: 1) What is involved corporeally, e/motionally, and sensorily in interspecies intra-actions? 2) What are the affects and telling effects of these intra-actions? I describe how my intra-action with the piglets manifested an awareness of the liveliness of other animals, and an understanding of interspecies kinship. To further understand interspecies kinship, I explore the role of the body, and the e/motional and sensory affordances of the intra-actions involving me and the piglets. The concepts of corporeality, inter-corporeality, and trans-corporeality are considered. In the second part of the paper, I describe tensions of human exceptionalism that were revealed in caring for the piglets.</p>2023-11-26T00:00:00-07:00Copyright (c) 2023 Phenomenology & Practicehttps://journals.library.ualberta.ca/pandpr/index.php/pandpr/article/view/29546 Body Consciousness in the Healthcare Environment2023-07-02T02:46:28-06:00Line Joranger<p>Like the human mind, the human body is the medium by which we represent ourselves, whether we are patients or healthcare providers. This paper concerns the significance of understanding the existential phenomenological side of a patient’s body within healthcare. To care for a patient’s body, one needs to be aware of how the body appears to itself, to others, and in a lager environmental reality. We think and feel and observe the world with our body, especially with the brain and nervous system, but also with other dimensions of the body manifesting itself as a somatic tonus. The healthcare providers’ body does not only represent a profession, but also who they are as a person and what kind of environment they are affected by. The same applies to the patients' body. As a tool for experiencing, a tool inseparable from our very being, our physical body functions as a surface open to and in contact with the healthcare environment that surrounds it. In the modern healthcare regime, the human body is nearly always visible and under constant surveillance. In the environment of control and visibility bodies become psychologized and normalized to fit into sociocultural demands of economic adaption, social participation, and communication, which in certain situations seem hostile to the ideology of care, freedom, and humanity. We should realize that all our ethical concepts and norms, even the very notion of humanity that underwrites them, depend on social forms of life involving the ways we experience our bodies in different medical and sociocultural situations.</p>2023-11-26T00:00:00-07:00Copyright (c) 2023 Phenomenology & Practicehttps://journals.library.ualberta.ca/pandpr/index.php/pandpr/article/view/29553Editorial2023-11-26T18:37:32-07:00Patrick Howard<p>Editorial</p>2023-11-26T00:00:00-07:00Copyright (c) 2023 Phenomenology & Practice