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Embodied methodologies: challenges, reflections and strategies

Authors :
Rachelle Chadwick
Source :
Qualitative Research. 17:54-74
Publication Year :
2016
Publisher :
SAGE Publications, 2016.

Abstract

This paper focuses on the methodological challenges of ‘embodying’ qualitative research. While a substantial literature exists on theoretical aspects of the ‘turn to bodies’, there is little work which has grappled with its methodological implications. This article provides a brief overview and critique of approaches to embodied qualitative methodologies developed in the social sciences over the last decade. The paper also articulates theoretical-methodological strategies that could be useful in the effort to develop ‘embodied methodologies’. The theoretical-methodological strategies outlined include: theorising the embodied subject, problematizing transcription and using poetic representational and methodological devices. These strategies are discussed in relation to a research project exploring women’s narratives of childbirth and shows their use in tracing and representing the sensual body in qualitative analysis.

Details

ISSN :
17413109 and 14687941
Volume :
17
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Qualitative Research
Accession number :
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