The Collaborative Body in Qualitative Research

Becoming Bodyography

Bodies Collective, Ryan Bittinger, Claudia Canella, Jess Erb, Sarah Helps, Mark Huhnen, Davina Kirkpatrick, Alys Mendus

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781032335650
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000984651
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology
• Index: Psychology

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
• 2 Embodied Friendship and Explicit Autoethnography: When Is It Ok to Talk About Cis Women’s Bodies and Sex?
• 3 (Un)dressing the Body: Underwear Stories and Audio Found Poetry
• 4 Uncovering the Non-binary Body: Using Bodyography to Discover Gender Identity and Combat Body Dysmorphia
• 5 Equivalencies—Creative Rituals, the Ageing Body, and Grief
• 6 Snacks from Cooking After the Bodyography Recipe: The Body as an Epistemological Entity
• 7 Talking/Walking to Myself: Questioning the Primacy of the Word
• 8 Doing Online Embodied Research: Researching Together, Apart
• Index