Voices from the water(s): Developing a salutogenic trace through swimming

Ronan Foley

Social Science & Medicine, 2025, vol. 378, issue C

Abstract: Within geographies of health and wellbeing research, there is ongoing interest in how health-enabling spaces and places are assembled, maintained and reproduced through occupation and practice. Set within a specific blue space practice, swimming, this paper develops the concept of the salutogenic trace, as a new way to consider health and wellbeing in place. Trace is initially introduced as a concept that augments place and space, to consider how relational geographies are understood, using swimmers and the water they swim in, as an empirical example. In the study, swimming traces are also characterised as identifiably salutogenic, a key idea in both health promotion and recent writing on health-enabling spaces and places.

Keywords: Trace; Swimming; Salutogenesis; Health-promotion; Blue space; Flow (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118129

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