Description
Disembodied research erects false dichotomies between flesh and reason, and between the corporeal and the social. By contrast, Torkild Thanem and David Knights engage with approaches and practices that exploit the body’s capacity to generate knowledge, craft lively accounts, and create fleshy concepts. These approaches enrich our understanding of how people live, work, and interact with their bodies within the social world.
Thanem and Knights discuss methods, practices, and personal experiences which involve bodies in the research process – in generating and analysing empirical material, reflecting on the work they do as researchers, and turning research into written text.
Embodied Research Methods is an important and practical resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students across the social sciences, and a thought-provoking read for researchers in these areas.
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prelims
Introduction: The embodied turn in social science research
Chapter 1. Disembodied methodology
Chapter 2. Embodied methodology
Chapter 3. Initiating an embodied research process
Chapter 4. Embodied immersion and ethnographic fieldwork
Chapter 5. Embodying interviews and conversations
Chapter 6. Recording and documenting embodied lives
Chapter 7. Embodied analysis and interpretation
Chapter 8. Embodied writing and dissemination
Chapter 9. Truth and politics in embodied research
Conclusion: Embodied imagination in future research
Notes
References
Index
