Description
The Collaborative Body in Qualitative Research challenges normative philosophies that have frequently neglected the body’s place in research and then illustrates how the body is essential for all meaning making.
By ‘voicing the body’, the first part of this rebellious book problematizes how the body is used/assessed, yet often silenced in academic writing. This book then fluidly moves to celebrating the body through discussing taboo topics like sex/sexuality in friendship, underwear (knickers), ageing, and death, as well as how a non-binary body moves in a heteronormative world. Through the lens of Bodyography, this book does research differently – illuminating how the body flourishes, excites knowledge, and is complicated when placed on a ‘screen’. This book celebrates a collaborative and arts-based approach. This book is a dialogue between The Bodies Collective, with dialogic resonance sections between each chapter and art pieces throughout.
This book will encourage all scholars to do research differently. Anyone with a thirst to challenge normative practices in academia and who wants research to be inspiring and playful will fall in love with this book.
N.B. Please cite the authorship of this book as 'The Bodies Collective (2023)'
Table of Contents
Introduction: We are the Bodies Collective. Researchers Working towards Change through Bodyography
The Bodies Collective
1. Voicing the Unspeakable Body: The Politics of Appearance and the Silence that Pervades Academic Discourse
Jess Erb
Resonances to Chapter 1. Conversation with the Bodies Collective Around Power and Privilege
The Bodies Collective
2. Embodied Friendship and Explicit Autoethnography: When is it Ok to Talk about Cis Women’s Bodies and Sex?
Alys Mendus and Davina Kirkpatrick
Resonances to Chapter 2. Abject Autoethnography: A Conversation
Jess Erb, Alys Mendus, and Davina Kirkpatrick
3. (Un)dressing the body: Underwear Stories and Audio-found-poetry
Alys Mendus
Resonances to Chapter 3. The Academic Life of Knickers Discussion
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4: Uncovering the Non-Binary Body: Using Bodyography to Discover Gender Identity and Combat Body Dysmorphia
Ryan Bittinger
Resonances to Chapter 4. The Presence of Absence and Other Refractions of Gender Identity
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5. Equivalencies. Creative rituals, the Ageing Body and Grief
Davina Kirkpatrick
Resonances to Chapter 5. The Presence of Absence and the Twelfthtight Nights Through Creative Serious Play
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6. Snacks from Cooking After the Bodyography Recipe: The Body as an Epistemological Entity
Claudia Canella
Resonances to Chapter 6. Between Academic Skinship and Authorship – Cultivating Different Tastes and Appetites
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7. Talking / Walking to Myself: Questioning the Primacy of the Word
Mark Huhnen
Resonances to Chapter 7. Matter as Mattering
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8. Doing Online Embodied Research: Researching Together, Apart
Sarah Helps
Resonances to Chapter 8: I Am Always in Relation to You, Whatever Form We Take Together
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An Ending to the Book and a Beginning of Sorts: Of Bodies, Organs, Time and Space
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