Artifacts with Feelings/Feeling Artifacts: Toward a Notion of Tacit Modalities to Support and Propel Anthropological Research

Rowsell, Jennifer; Abrams, Sandra Schamroth

doi:10.1111/aeq.12413

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“…Rather than noticing a single, solitary sense, there were a myriad of senses that blended and morphed into each other, displaying Ceraso's (Ceraso, 2018: 328) notion of "embodied listening". This article focuses on synesthesia as a way into learning and being across these classrooms (Rowsell and Abrams, 2021). There are some noteworthy research studies that move multimodality into disability studies that enriched our thinking during the writing process.…”

Section: Diverse Learners and Multimodal Reframingmentioning

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Towards literacies of immanence: Getting closer to sensory multimodal perspectives on research

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2023

Multimodality & Society

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In this article, we propose ‘literacies of immanence’ as a term for sensory-laden, embodied multimodal practices that happen when researchers get out of the way to allow for modal diversity in meaning making. The learning encounters that we observed during our research combined senses with a kaleidoscope of modes that were hard to describe through more traditional multimodal methods. Literacies of immanence is the most fitting phrase for these practices because they were fluid, open, and they did not rely on written and spoken texts. Researching in a primary and secondary special school that are part of an academy trust in the southwest of England, the research team engaged in research-creation propositions (Truman, 2021) where we watched and built on multimodal meaning making supplementing it with story-making activities. Writing and sharing fieldnotes and filming interactions, we abandoned original plans and instead shaped methods and theoretical framings around the population of learners we met. Fieldnotes were shared on a blog and filmmaking helped us to describe and draw out multimodal, immanent literacies and their epiphanic qualities. This article features fieldnotes along with images of multimodal-sensory encounters and ways that they helped us relate to the learners, their teachers and Head Teacher as well as each other as researchers. The article is of relevance to researchers looking for ways to capture visible and invisible modal practices at work across settings and a movement away from a definite or true-false rendering of multimodality to one that allows for divergent ways of being with modes.

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Towards literacies of immanence: Getting closer to sensory multimodal perspectives on research

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2023

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Affecting photos: Photographs as shared, affective ethnographic spaces

Rowsell

2024

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Scholars point to the ubiquity of visual images in media and popular culture as driving striking developments in visual research over the past decade. Yet, with this popularity, there is less attention paid to affective, non-representational dimensions of visual images and specifically to the ways that photos animate and inform ethnographic fieldwork. The felt, sensory qualities photographs hold play a role in not only what gets documented, but also what photos produce as shared, felt objects that circulate during fieldwork. This article redresses a gap in qualitative research literature on the affective, embodied co-experiencing of visual methods that happens during fieldwork by spotlighting a research study on family photographs. In the article, I begin by defining affect, then I profile extant non-representational, affect-driven visual methods and discuss how matter invites affect, and then I spotlight a larger research study I was involved in on visualising the modern Canadian family. In the article, I offer insights that emerged from photo-sharing interviews which produced what I call in the article, affective figured worlds. Built on Holland's concept of ‘figured worlds’ coupled with Ahmed's notion of ‘sticky objects’, the article explores the notion of affective figured worlds to attune researchers to more of the non-representational methods in play during visual research.

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Artifacts with Feelings/Feeling Artifacts: Toward a Notion of Tacit Modalities to Support and Propel Anthropological Research

Cited by 2 publications

References 43 publications

Towards literacies of immanence: Getting closer to sensory multimodal perspectives on research

Towards literacies of immanence: Getting closer to sensory multimodal perspectives on research

Affecting photos: Photographs as shared, affective ethnographic spaces

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