Beyond the literal: fiction as a tool for leisure inquiry

Dunlap, Rudy; Harmon, Justin

doi:10.1080/11745398.2021.1880946

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“…Importantly, writing is used not just to represent affect, but to permit ‘words into the affective encounter as another part of the event from which a new material experience arises’, (Truman, 2016: 137). Further, the use of fictive writing allows for interpretive gaps (Leavy, 2020) where readers are encouraged to do the work of interpretation, to develop empathy, and, in essence, to become writers themselves (Dunlap and Harmon, 2021). The construction of the research text becomes a key focus and, while data collection is not abandoned, we concentrate on how the data may be used to construct a persuasive and interesting research tale that promotes verisimilitude (Denzin, 1989).…”

Section: Resonance Memories and Data Constructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Onflow and consumption: Affect and first encounters

2022

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In this paper, we are concerned with how we might account for the under-appreciated relation of intensities that flow through and around consumption experiences. In pursuing clarity, researchers have tended to treat consumer experiences as bounded and discrete, segregated from the messy unfolding of life around them. In this work, we look to acknowledge this everyday unfolding of the experience to appreciate how we might articulate the more-than-representational excess of seemingly un-spectacular, quotidian moments of encounter, and how we might attune ourselves to the constant unfolding of consumer experiences. In addressing these concerns, we produce a series of narratives designed to reveal both the ecologies and processual registers of experience. These narratives seek not just to inform, but also to evoke and provoke. Moreover, they work to engage readers with the messiness of everyday life attempting to give form to phenomena that are essentially formless and in continuous circulation.

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Section: Resonance Memories and Data Constructionmentioning

confidence: 99%