Embodiment in Qualitative Research

✍ Scribed by Laura L. Ellingson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Embodiment in Qualitative Research connects critical, interdisciplinary theorizing of embodiment with creative, practical strategies for engaging in embodied qualitative research. Ellingson equips qualitative researchers not only to resist the mind–body split in principle but to infuse their research with the vitality that comes from embracing knowledge production as deeply embedded in sensory experience.

Grounded in poststructuralist, posthumanist, and feminist perspectives, this innovative book synthesizes current interdisciplinary theories and research on embodiment; explores research examples from across the social sciences, education, and allied health; and features embodied ethnographic tales and evocative moments from everyday life for reflexive consideration. Each chapter offers flexible starting points for doing embodiment actively throughout every stage of qualitative research. An awareness of, and an active engagement with, issues of embodiment enhances scholars’ ability to produce high quality research and enlarges their capacity as public intellectuals to spark positive social change, particularly within marginalized communities. The strategies offered relate to methodologies from across the entire spectrum: from traditional qualitative methods such as grounded theory, critical/theoretical analysis, and discourse analysis, to arts-based research — including performance, autoethnographic narrative, poetry, and documentary film making.

Embodiment in Qualitative Research is designed as a resource book for qualitative researchers who want to explore the latest trends in critical theorizing. The writing style will appeal to researchers who seek a bridge between abstract theorizing and pragmatic strategies for producing outstanding qualitative research, as well as to critical scholars who want to integrate embodied ways of knowing with their theorizing. Graduate (and advanced undergraduate) qualitative methods students and early career researchers, as well as advanced scholars seeking to enrich the scope and texture of their work, will find the text inspiring and engaging.

✦ Table of Contents

Embodiment in Qualitative Research- Front Cover......Page 1
Embodiment in Qualitative Research......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Brief Table of Contents......Page 8
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 9
Tables......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 15
Introduction: Elusive Bodies: The (Dis)Embodiment
of Research......Page 18
Defining Embodiment......Page 19
Unapologetically Eclectic......Page 20
The Mind-Body Split and the Erasure of Bodies in Research......Page 22
Organization of the Book......Page 26
Doing Legwork: Inspiring Bodies......Page 27
Theorizing Embodiment......Page 28
Practices for Embodying Research......Page 44
Doing Legwork: Speaking Ethics......Page 49
Questioning the Body......Page 51
Designing Embodied Qualitative Research: A Continuum Approach......Page 52
Ethical Bodies in Research......Page 61
Practices for Embodying Design......Page 68
Doing Legwork: Languaging Disability in Everyday Life......Page 74
Body and Identity......Page 77
Categorical Bodies......Page 78
Practices for Inquiring into Embodiment......Page 92
Doing Legwork: There’s No Rest for the Wicked......Page 96
Bodies in the Field......Page 97
Practices for Embodying the Field......Page 108
Doing Legwork: Your/My/Our Bodies......Page 116
Active Interviewing......Page 119
Language of the Body: Understanding Nonverbal Communication......Page 121
Power and Resistance in Interviews......Page 127
Re/Membering the Body......Page 129
To Match or Not To Match—Performance of Shared Identities......Page 130
Technology, Mediated Bodies, and Embodiment......Page 132
Practices for Embodied Interviewing......Page 134
Doing Legwork: Bodies of Data, Data of Bodies......Page 141
What Do Data Do?......Page 145
Fieldnotes: The Language of Embodied Data......Page 149
Recording Bodies......Page 150
Practices for Inscribing Bodies in Data......Page 157
Doing Legwork: On Thinking through Data with Mind-Altering Medications......Page 164
Data Analysis as Material Practice......Page 166
Analysis as Always Already Embodied......Page 167
Head, Heart, and Gut Analysis......Page 173
Practices for Embodied Analysis......Page 175
Doing Legwork: Where Social Science Meets Art......Page 184
What’s In and What Lurks Outside......Page 187
(De)Composing Bodies......Page 188
Subjugated Knowledges/Knowledge of Subjugation......Page 193
Radical Specificity......Page 195
Refracting Bodies through Crystallization......Page 196
Practices for Embodying Representation......Page 198
Doing Legwork: A Calling......Page 205
Pulling Threads......Page 207
Materializing Social Change......Page 210
Knot......Page 213
References......Page 214
Index......Page 242