Embodied Research Methods

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Torkild Thanem
David Knights
Embodied Research Methods
April 2019 | 184 pages | Sage UK
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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. 

Contents

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

Notes

References

References

Index

Index

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. 

Contents

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

Notes

References

References

Index

Index

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Embodied Research Methods

Torkild Thanem , David Knights
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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

Recent Product Reviews:

This book is a pleasant experience for scientists who want to put feeling in their research [translated from dutch]
Jillis Kors, Saxion University
This book will not only provoke its readers to think differently about embodiment. It will also get them to change the way they carry out their social investigations.
Loïc Wacquant, Author of "Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer"

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