I. Interviewing: Embodied Communication

Burns, Maree

doi:10.1177/0959353503013002006

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“…For this project, I employed a feminist research methodology, purposefully working to disrupt the binary construction research methods can often take, i.e., researcher as powerful and participant as vulnerable (Wickramasinghe, 2009). Feminist research methodology pushes for researchers to be reflective of their practices (Burns, 2003;Cushman, 1996;Powell & Takayoshi, 2012) and self-reflexive, making parts of the self unfamiliar (Gorzelsky, 2012;Takayoshi et al, 2012). Feminist methodology is most applicable in this project because I am a member of the participant family, and the roles that I simultaneously inhabit-grand-daughter, daughter, niece, sister, mother, researcher-necessarily affected the interviews and the information provided by the participants.…”

Section: Methodology and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Chapter 5. A Definition of Everyday Writing: Methods for a Writer-Informed Approach to Lifespan Writing

Naftzinger¹

2020

Approaches to Lifespan Writing Research: Generating an Actionable Coherence

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Bazerman notes that a project such as this "may seem quixotic and perhaps impossible in its magnitude, expense, and logistical complexity" (2018, p. 327), but he works through this complexity to trace the broad outlines of such a project. Approaches to Lifespan Writing Research works to flesh out that outline as a next step toward aligned, integrated, multi-site longitudinal studies of writing. In each of these chapters our authors attempt to explicate their epistemological stances, methodological choices, and theoretical reasoning so that resonance across research sites, methods, and findings can begin to be articulated, followed up, and built upon. If Bazerman's initial challenge to the field requires a disregard for what is easy-even, perhaps, for what is possible-the very complexity embraced by the project has also generated an embrace of collaboration and of joint attention to a difficult problem. The complexity of researching writing through the lifespan emerges, in large part, from the fact that writing is itself complex (Bazerman et al., 2017, 2018). Writing is caught up in all facets of our lives, whether explicitly attended to or not. Whether we are writing to our senators or our child's school, making a list of groceries, completing taxes, or writing a report for our employers, we are engaged in various spheres of social and material engagement, working with various audiences, and attending to various demands on our own and others' time. But through it all, we are writing. Attending to writing through the lifespan needs to attend to all of this complexity somehow. The task of this volume is to present potential "hows" and begin to render the impossible slightly more possible for future research on writing through the lifespan. Yet our aims for this volume are not just that it coheres in these ways, but that it actively generates murmurations, or a path forward for those engaged in lifespan writing research. Murmurations describes the coordinated movements of flocks of birds (especially starlings-footage is readily available online) and may involve up to thousands of birds moving together while also easily able to change directions and goals. Murmurations are simultaneously chaotic and deeply ordered-chaotic in that a murmuration changes continuously in shape and direction through time, yet deeply ordered in that the movement is seamless and unified and displays a common goal. Fluidity and unified purpose through chaos seem to us a plausible strategy for tackling such a complex research problem, a claim we unpack more fully in our conclusion.

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Section: Methodology and Methodsmentioning

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Chapter 5. A Definition of Everyday Writing: Methods for a Writer-Informed Approach to Lifespan Writing

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2020

Approaches to Lifespan Writing Research: Generating an Actionable Coherence

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“…As Davies (2006) explains of collective biography, “The full knowledge of self that is implicated in humanist ideals of ethical practice, must, in this understanding, be put aside in favour of an awareness of the emergent process of mutual formation” (p. 183). Although not addressed by collective biography specifically, some claim that embodiment is also iterative and mutually formed through interactions with others; that is, the experience of being embodied is “inter-corporeal” (Burns, 2003, p. 232). Attending to this experience in the collaborative research context elicits visceral knowledge that is beyond the reach of cognitive contemplation and reveals how power manifests in and operates through our bodies.…”

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Cooking as Inquiry: A Method to Stir Up Prevailing Ways of Knowing Food, Body, and Identity

Brady

2011

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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The paper develops a method of research called 'cooking as inquiry.' This method seeks to add layers to the typically disembodied practices of social research that have long overlooked the body and the mundane rituals of foodmaking as sites of knowledge. Informed by autoethnography and collective biography, cooking as inquiry recognizes bodies and food as sites of knowledge and engages researchers as researcher-participants in reflexive, collaborative study that explores the ways in which the embodied self is performed relationally through foodmaking. In addition to a discussion of the epistemological and methodological frames of this method, this paper offers a case study that describes a project conducted by a colleague and the author.

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“…Reflexivity, foremost, is concerned with how the researcher herself comes to interrogate her own standpoint and interpretive perspectives (Alvesson and Skoldberg, 2000;Friberg and Ohlen, 2010). Meanwhile, embodied reflexivity challenges us to take seriously our efforts to write our embodied responses back into our research while we remain committed to responding empathetically towards another (Burns, 2003;Ellingson, 2012;Finlay, 2005;Gale, 2010;Sharma et al, 2009). I realized Finlay's extension of phenomenological awareness during the research process, in that, 'the researcher's capacity to understand can be enhanced through this reflexive awareness' (2005: 277).…”

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“…Second, once we decipher the importance of the meanings created in storytelling (Warren, 2002), we begin to examine the capacities of discourse to produce consequences for social action. Studying discourse is both studying language-in-use (Alvesson and Skoldberg, 2000;Gee, 2011;Hymes, 1974) and extra-discursive practices-in-use (Burns, 2003). Knowledge creation using applied ethnographic sensibilities is thus guided by both embodied and written interpretations.…”

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Reflexive embodied ethnography with applied sensibilities: methodological reflections on involved qualitative research

Field‐Springer

2019

Qualitative Research

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In this article, I illustrate reflexive embodied ethnography with applied sensibilities as an approach for performing, interpreting, and applying qualitative research. I argue that we enter the field as embodied beings hoping to find significant insights with the potential to connect with other persons’ lived experiences, which in my work involves searching for answers to health conditions. Reflexive embodied ethnography: a) recognizes that each field experience potentially changes how we come to perceive, understand, and act in the world; b) receptively approaches our own and others’ responses to experiences that transcend language; and c) enhances our awareness that we also re-constitute worlds with our words. Applied ethnographic sensibilities include: a) reconstructing our social world through storied reflections grounded in our bodies; and b) revealing meanings that move us towards social action through examining discourse and ‘extra’ discourse-in-use.

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I. Interviewing: Embodied Communication

Cited by 63 publications

References 9 publications

Chapter 5. A Definition of Everyday Writing: Methods for a Writer-Informed Approach to Lifespan Writing

Chapter 5. A Definition of Everyday Writing: Methods for a Writer-Informed Approach to Lifespan Writing

Cooking as Inquiry: A Method to Stir Up Prevailing Ways of Knowing Food, Body, and Identity

Reflexive embodied ethnography with applied sensibilities: methodological reflections on involved qualitative research

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