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“They all have a different vibe”: a rhythmanalysis of climbing mobilities and the Red River Gorge as place

Rickly, J.M.

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This paper integrates a mobilities perspective and Lefebvre’s notion of rhythmanalysis as a means interrogate place as an entanglement of mobilities, moorings, and rhythms. By investigating one popular rock climbing destination, this paper demonstrates that mobilities invite encounters with and enactments of place such that travel rhythms, everyday rhythms, and natural rhythms coalesce, interrupt, and even emerge anew. Focusing on lifestyle rock climbers (a particular type of lifestyle mobility dedicated to the pursuit of climbing) and events provides evidence for the ways informational and physical mobilities contribute to and even regiment rock climbing travel rhythms, while the everyday rhythms of place illustrate embodiment as crucial to the enfolding of rhythm and mobilities. Building from Lefebvre’s theory of rhythm and Edensor and Holloway’s (2008) re-articulation of its potential for mobilities studies, this paper emphasizes the ongoing relationality of embodied mobilities and bodily rhythms, seasonal rhythms and informational mobilities, collective mobilities and institutional rhythms.

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Rickly, J. (2017). “They all have a different vibe”: a rhythmanalysis of climbing mobilities and the Red River Gorge as place. Tourist Studies, 17(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797617717637

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jul 4, 2016
Online Publication Date Jul 11, 2017
Publication Date Sep 1, 2017
Deposit Date Mar 23, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Tourist Studies
Print ISSN 1468-7976
Electronic ISSN 1741-3206
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 17
Issue 3
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797617717637
Keywords Rhythm; Rock climbing; Place; Mobilities; Community; Co-presence
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/880357
Publisher URL http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1468797617717637

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