The Collaborative Body in Qualitative Research

✍ Scribed by Bodies Collective, Ryan Bittinger, Claudia Canella, Jess Erb

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 195
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Figures
Foreword: What Does The Bodies Collective Do to Academia?
Introduction: We Are The Bodies Collective. Researchers Working Towards Change Through Bodyography
1 Voicing the Unspeakable Body: The Politics of Appearance and the Silence That Pervades Academic Discourse
Resonances to Chapter 1: Conversation with The Bodies Collective Around Power and Privilege
2 Embodied Friendship and Explicit Autoethnography: When Is It Ok to Talk About Cis Women’s Bodies and Sex?
Resonances to Chapter 2: Abject autoethnography: A Conversation
3 (Un)dressing the Body: Underwear Stories and Audio Found Poetry
Resonances to Chapter 3: The Academic Life of Knickers Discussion
4 Uncovering the Non-binary Body: Using Bodyography to Discover Gender Identity and Combat Body Dysmorphia
Resonances to Chapter 4: The Presence of Absence and Other Refractions of Gender Identity
5 Equivalencies—Creative Rituals, the Ageing Body, and Grief
Resonances to Chapter 5: The Presence of Absence and the Twelfthtide Nights Through Creative Serious Play
6 Snacks from Cooking After the Bodyography Recipe: The Body as an Epistemological Entity
Resonances to Chapter 6: Between Academic Skinship and Authorship—Cultivating Different Tastes and Appetites
7 Talking/Walking to Myself: Questioning the Primacy of the Word
Resonances to Chapter 7: Matter as Mattering
8 Doing Online Embodied Research: Researching Together, Apart
Resonances to Chapter 8: I am Always in Relation to You, Whatever Form We Take Together
An Ending to the Book and a Beginning of Sorts: Of Bodies, Organs, Time, and Space
Index