Ecological grief and embodied place-attachment processes in nature-based sport: unsettling dominant body/land dynamics through cosmic attunement
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Abstract
This paper presents qualitative data from a pilot study on lived experiences of ecological grief and examines how nature-based sports and physical activities shape attachment to proximal natural spaces and contribute to cosmic attunement through embodied, meaning-making and micro-sensory processes. More specifically, we turn to the framework of body ecology and cosmic sport, herein conceptualized as a relational ontological posture, to examine place-attachment processes and shed light on the ways in which nature-based sports can foster human-nature solidarities and unsettle dominant utilitarian and colonial narratives in sport philosophy. Drawing on embodied narrative methodology and inspired by the ‘bodymindspirit’ method of walking pláticas (conversations) rooted in Chicana/Latina feminist epistemology, go-along interviews (n = 8) were employed to bear witness to the moving, sensing and doing bodies of nature-based sport practitioners who experienced ecological grief caused by anthropogenic actions. Data reveals that ecological loss transforms everyday active living habits and nature-immersed activities, a process that aligns with the concept of ‘dismosis’ and limits opportunities for the body to restore homeostasis. Place-attachment, enabled through nature-based sports, appears as a primary gateway forge symbiotic and cosmosic relationships to proximal green/bluespaces through three main processes: 1) Valuing place-based cultural identity; 2) Decelerating into symbiosis and 3) Connecting to the cosmoses through the infinitesimal. The discussion calls for a critical sport philosophy of place to strengthen engagement with relational ontologies, urging the field to take a more assertive role in addressing urgent ecological challenges by restoring body-land-cosmos relations through cosmic sport.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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