Description
The Art and Science of Embodied Research Design: Concepts, Methods, and Cases offers some of the nascent perspectives that situate embodiment as a necessary element in human research. This edited volume brings together philosophical foundations of embodiment research with application of embodied methods from several disciplines.
The book is divided into two sections. Part I, Concepts in Embodied Research Design, suggests ways that embodied epistemology may bring deeper understanding to current research theory, and describes the ways in which embodiment is an integral part of the research process. In Part II, Methods and Cases, chapters propose novel ways to operationalize embodied data in the research process. The section is divided into four sub-sections: Somatic Systems of Analysis, Movement Systems of Analysis, Embodied Interviews and Observations, and Creative and Mixed Methods. Each chapter proposes a method case; an example of a previously used research method that exemplifies the way in which embodiment is used in a study.
As such, it can be used as scaffold for designing embodied methods that suits the researcher’s needs. It is suited for many fields of study such as psychology, sociology, behavioral science, anthropology, education, and arts-based research. It will be useful for graduate coursework in somatic studies or as a supplemental text for courses in traditional research design.
Table of Contents
Part I: Concepts in Embodied Research
Chapter 1: Embodied Research Design: A Transformational Paradigm in Scientific Discovery
Michael Changaris
Chapter 2: Open and Reflective Research: Methodological Reflections on the Importance of Body Awareness in Qualitative Research
Helena Dahlberg
Chapter 3: The Concept Of "Felt Sense" In Embodied Knowing and Action
Anne Weiser Cornell And Barbara Mcgavin
Chapter 4: Embodied Data: Toward a Vocabulary for Somatic and Movement Experience
Jennifer Frank Tantia
Chapter 5: Ethical Considerations in Embodied Research
Rae Johnson
Part II: Methods and Cases
Somatic Systems of Analysis
Chapter 6: Methods for Measuring Embodiment, An Instrument: The Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA)
Aaron Freedman, MA, And Wolf Mehling, MD
Chapter 7: Empirical Evidence of the Embodiment Awareness Changes in Somatic Focused Gestalt Psychotherapy
Susan Grossman
Chapter 8: Somatic Phenomenology: Maps of Body-Felt Experience
Glenn Hartelius
Movement Systems of Analysis
Chapter 9: The Three Pillars of Movement Observation and Analysis – A Brief Introduction to the LMA, KMP and MPI
Karolina Bryl
Chapter 10: Embodied and Nonverbal Indices of Stress in Intergenerational Transmission
Silvia B. Birklein
Chapter 11: The Skillful Analyst: Investigating, Analyzing, And Reflecting on Movement Behavior Through Embodied Knowledge
Karen Bradley
Embodied Interviews and Observations
Chapter 12: Ethnomethdologically Informed Ethnography: Recognising the Potential and Limitations of The Researcher’s Body as Tool for Exploring Embodied Practice
Tara Woodyer
Chapter 13: Beyond Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: Using Body Awareness and Mindfulness Meditation Practices to Research Body Psychotherapy
Gill Westland
Chapter 14: The Body-Focused Interview: Explicating the Implicit in Embodied Research
Jennifer Frank Tantia
Chapter 15: Embodied Writing Research Applications: Giving the Body "Voice" Through the Vehicle of Words
Rosemarie Anderson
Creative and Mixed Methods
Chapter 16: Body Stories: Researching and Performing the Embodied Experience of Oppression
Rae Johnson, Phd, RSW, RSMT, BCC, With Rebecca Morgan, MA, Jessica Pink, MA and Masha Mikulinsky, MA
Chapter 17: The Somatic Impact of War and Flight on the Agent Bodies of Refugee Women in Germany:
A Mixed-Method Approach Including Movement and Body Image Sculptures
Beatrice Schlee And Mone Welsche
Chapter 18: Aesthetic Answering: A Method of Embodied Analysis and Arts-Based Research in Creative Arts Therapies
Gudrun Lange, Nicole Hartmann, Marianne Eberhard-Kaechele, & Sabine C. Koch
Chapter 19: Mixed Methods for Evaluating Embodied Processes in Higher Education
Rosa-Maria Rodríguez-Jiménez & Manuel Carmona
