Re-turning to embodied matters and movement through post-qualitative inquiries

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Fullagar, Simone
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This chapter engages with theoretical, ethical and practical questions concerning how embodied movement matters in postqualitative inquiries (PQI). Acknowledging the significant influence of various feminist philosophies of ‘the body’, I explore postqualitative examples of thinking through embodied movement via different methodological practices. PQI invites different ways of engaging through research practices that attune researchers to the affects that move us in perceptible and imperceptible ways. These movements of affect are often overlooked in mainstream methods, yet they matter in terms of opening up relations that ...
View more >This chapter engages with theoretical, ethical and practical questions concerning how embodied movement matters in postqualitative inquiries (PQI). Acknowledging the significant influence of various feminist philosophies of ‘the body’, I explore postqualitative examples of thinking through embodied movement via different methodological practices. PQI invites different ways of engaging through research practices that attune researchers to the affects that move us in perceptible and imperceptible ways. These movements of affect are often overlooked in mainstream methods, yet they matter in terms of opening up relations that are formed with materials, techniques, other human and non-humans and thinking-feeling responses. The thread that connects different examples in this chapter concerns how theory, matter and movement are entangled through methodological practices as they trouble conventional ways of knowing ‘the world’, or the researcher/participant ‘self’, and privilege static representation, human centredness and mind-body binaries. I will explore three different movement methodologies with links to visual examples, i) walking methodologies that offer sensory engagements with places and histories (natureculture knowing, de-colonizing), ii) dance practices that invite explorations of complex affects that are not easily spoken, and iii) body mapping practices that connect arts based methods with somatic movement workshops (materialising gender, age, sexual, ability, race and economic difference).
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View more >This chapter engages with theoretical, ethical and practical questions concerning how embodied movement matters in postqualitative inquiries (PQI). Acknowledging the significant influence of various feminist philosophies of ‘the body’, I explore postqualitative examples of thinking through embodied movement via different methodological practices. PQI invites different ways of engaging through research practices that attune researchers to the affects that move us in perceptible and imperceptible ways. These movements of affect are often overlooked in mainstream methods, yet they matter in terms of opening up relations that are formed with materials, techniques, other human and non-humans and thinking-feeling responses. The thread that connects different examples in this chapter concerns how theory, matter and movement are entangled through methodological practices as they trouble conventional ways of knowing ‘the world’, or the researcher/participant ‘self’, and privilege static representation, human centredness and mind-body binaries. I will explore three different movement methodologies with links to visual examples, i) walking methodologies that offer sensory engagements with places and histories (natureculture knowing, de-colonizing), ii) dance practices that invite explorations of complex affects that are not easily spoken, and iii) body mapping practices that connect arts based methods with somatic movement workshops (materialising gender, age, sexual, ability, race and economic difference).
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Book Title
Navigating the Postqualitative, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Terrain Across Disciplines: An Introductory Guide
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© 2020 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Navigating the Postqualitative, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Terrain Across Disciplines: An Introductory Guide on 29 December 2020, available online: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003041177
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Sport and leisure management
Gender studies
Sociology
Interdisciplinary research