ABSTRACT
‘Rethinking movement in health geography: from a change of location to movement-space’ deals, as its title suggests, with movement; the basic ingredient and basis of all the concepts and concerns outlined in the previous five chapters. To start, the chapter traces conventional engagements with space, place and movement in health geography, ranging from the macro-scale movement of populations and diseases to the movement – or lack of movement – in people with unhealthy bodies. The argument is developed that whilst the current research engagement with movement is broad, it could be progressed considerably by considering the processual and performed elements of movement, and how they create space and time. Drawing on the work of Merriman and others, the chapter develops the specific idea of ‘movement-space’, and provides an overview of how ‘flow’ – a general movement experience and sensation – has arisen in more-than-representational health geographies.’
