Construction of Urban Commercial Fitness and Leisure Space from the Perspective of Emotional Geography

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10.2991/assehr.k.220105.001How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Emotional geography; Urban commercial fitness and leisure space; Construction

Abstract

As people pay more and more attention to the shaping of healthy body, the current gym, a commercial sports place, has developed rapidly and become a new leisure space in modern society. The themes of geographical imagination, local identity and spatial production in fitness and leisure space began to attract scholars’ attention. By reviewing and analyzing the relevant literature, it is found that deconstructing the spatial emotional dimension is a geographical research method that can naturalize the gender differences in fitness and leisure activities. The gym is used as an indoor environment to understand and intervene the broader gender differences in fitness and leisure activities, and analyze and explore how emotions affect individuals’ interaction in their environment, this will help us find and narrow the gender differences in space. Based on the theory of emotional geography and feminist geography, this paper analyzes the participants’ emotional experience of fitness and leisure activities, and points out that the relationship between participants’ fitness and leisure behavior socially constructs space. The emotional experience of fitness and leisure behavior is highly related to the condensation and influence of discourse power.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Baorong Li
AU  - Huimin Bao
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/01/17
TI  - Construction of Urban Commercial Fitness and Leisure Space from the Perspective of Emotional Geography
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1
EP  - 5
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220105.001
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220105.001
ID  - Li2022
ER  -