“Identifying Pleasure: a Diary-Approach to the Embodied Subjectivity of Students’ Daily Life in Albania”

Traversa, Rosa

doi:10.1007/s12124-021-09616-w

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“…Cucu-Oancea (2012) adds that research diaries can also be thematic and self-reflective, leading participants to a work of self-exploration. Following the example of the research undertaken by Traversa (2021), Albanian students were guided to produce "body-diaries", that is, reflective writings on the experience of corporeality, in terms of the agentivity of the sensations of pleasure and pain in everyday experiences, as well as in sexuality and the various embodied forms of relating to the other, in an autobiographical and anonymous elaboration. The author underlines the creative bodily dimension involved in the enunciative productions oriented by the research instruction, which is not always spontaneously perceived or symbolically articulated by people in flow of their daily routines.…”

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The use of diaries in psychological research: The creative and dialogical intimacy of self-other-world relationships in the context of cultural mutations

Pinheiro

Barros

Mélo

2022

Culture & Psychology

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This paper discusses the potential for accessing the intersubjective psychic dynamics that the use of oral diaries about everyday life can offer to Psychology, from an ideographic, cultural, and qualitative perspective. Based on the authors’ experience with this research activity mediated by instant messaging applications, we argue about the singularity produced by such a field of elaboration of meanings regarding the affective, ambiguous and potentially creative and authorial face of such enunciations. The use of this research instrument took place during critical periods of the COVID-19 pandemic, a historical moment marked by a profound decentering of forms of life, which was the driving force behind significant cultural mutations both in the personal and collective spheres. We propose that the instrument provided interpretative access to three fundamental records of experience, namely: corporeality, temporality, and the meaning-making process.

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The use of diaries in psychological research: The creative and dialogical intimacy of self-other-world relationships in the context of cultural mutations

Pinheiro

Barros

Mélo

2022

Culture & Psychology

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“…Such a scenario can be investigated through beautification practices of makeup users and non-users women whose ambivalence with "the minimal mask" (Spezzacatena & Marsico, 2021) goes hand in hand with their ambivalence toward "natural face." This is a further example of daily practice that psychology should embrace in order to elaborate embodiment as a constant natural decolonization (see also Traversa, 2021c).…”

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Once Upon a Time, Materiality: A Possible Scenario for Psychology in the Nature/culture Divide

Traversa

2022

Culture & Psychology

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The present essay draws on the book “What if Culture was Nature All Along?” (Eds. Vicki Kirby, 2017) and on Karen Barad’s influence to discuss some main concepts of the so-called new materialism in social sciences and humanities over the last decade. It will bring the reader to come across the nature/culture divide as something inherently incorrect from an ontological point of view. Moreover, through different case-studies ranging from allergy, race, paternal post-natal depression, etc. I intend to give some insights into the most controversial and the most insightful attempts to see culture as nothing outside biology in social sciences, and psychology as well. I will then argue how Kirby’s and Barad’s perspective can be a good starting point to re-think critical theory and power-relations as always enmeshed in tangibility, and I will suggest some more empirical patterns for a new material psychological knowledge.

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“Identifying Pleasure: a Diary-Approach to the Embodied Subjectivity of Students’ Daily Life in Albania”

Cited by 2 publications

References 35 publications

The use of diaries in psychological research: The creative and dialogical intimacy of self-other-world relationships in the context of cultural mutations

The use of diaries in psychological research: The creative and dialogical intimacy of self-other-world relationships in the context of cultural mutations

Once Upon a Time, Materiality: A Possible Scenario for Psychology in the Nature/culture Divide

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