The Restless Compendium: Interdisciplinary Investigations of Rest and Its Opposites

• Main Author: Kimberley Staines (auth)
• Other Authors: James Wilkes (auth), Felicity Callard (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Palgrave Macmillan 2017
• Subjects: Neurosciences; mind; mindfulness; bodies; therapeutic relaxation; space
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This interdisciplinary book contains 22 essays and interventions on rest and restlessness, silence and noise, relaxation and work. It draws together approaches from artists, literary scholars, psychologists, activists, historians, geographers and sociologists who challenge assumptions about how rest...