Mindful methodologies: Some limitations and concerns

Abstract

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Effective Methodologies to Study Affects: New Tools for Engaging With Socio-Spatial Relations

“…Scholars who deal with the epistemological and methodological challenges of affect-based research offer different answers. While Merriman and Pearce (2019) argues that rather than new methods, drawing on common, traditional methods can be useful in studying socio-spatial phenomena, and Asker (2022) critically reflects on the mobilization of mindfulness for nonrepresentational and affect-based studies, other scholars embrace the search for novel or adapted tools to conduct nonrepresentational research. Anderson (2014) suggests rethinking vocabularies used to conduct affect-based studies, Lorimer (2010) offers that the visual methodology of moving images is highly pertinent to nonrepresentational studies, Simpson (2011a) claims that video recording is useful for the study of practices, and Latham and McCormack (2009) denote the potential to work with images in nonrepresentational fieldwork.…”

Captive bodies, prison geographies, and the somatic carceral condition

“…While the so-called “somatic turn in the social sciences” was identified by Turner in 1984 (Turner, 1984), the turn towards wider acknowledgement of the somatic in the broader “health conscious” society is evident in how it entered popular discourse in just the past few decades (see also Asker, 2023). What was long relegated to the realm of new-age curiosity and “Eastern'” approaches to well-being beginning in the late 1960s started to accompany major trends in homeopathic and ayurvedic medicine, as well as yoga, acupuncture, meditation, chiropractic care, naturopathic medicine, and even macrobiotic diets for more health-conscious, upper middle-class communities across the United States by the 1990s.…”