- Title
- The limits of risk: exploring the subject/object divide and its breach in a climbing accident
- Creator
- Bunn, Matthew
- Relation
- Ethnos
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2019.1659841
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- This article explores an auto-ethnographic account of a climbing accident. Climbing communities invest large amounts of time in identifying ‘risks’, that is, making the chances of involvement in a serious or fatal accident more calculable and controllable, and hence less likely. However, little attention has been given to understanding the post-risk state. Rather risk discourses are intended to sustain a sense of control over vertical spaces; spaces that greatly exceed the abilities of the human. Accidents, then, represent a substantial threat to this production of an orderly line between subjectivity and objectivity. While a climbing accident is not necessarily a threshold in the sense of a permanent or irreversible shift of being, it nevertheless reveals where such a threshold lies. This phenomenological account of the accident as a post-risk state offers a fruitful space for furthering accounts of agency, subjectivity and their borders into the ‘inanimate’ world of the objects.
- Subject
- risk; climbing; embodiment; agency; subjectivity
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1437534
- Identifier
- uon:40380
- Identifier
- ISSN:0014-1844
- Language
- eng
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