<p>This book will not only provoke its readers to think differently about embodiment. <br /> It will also get them to change the way they carry out their social investigations.<br /> <br /> </p>

- Loïc Wacquant,

This book is a pleasant experience for scientists who want to put feeling in their research [translated from dutch]

- Jillis Kors, Amsterdam University Press

Disembodied research erects false dichotomies between flesh and reason, and between the corporeal and the social. By contrast, Torkild Thanem and David Knights engage with approaches and practices that exploit the body’s capacity to generate knowledge, craft lively accounts, and create fleshy concepts. These approaches enrich our understanding of how people live, work, and interact with their bodies within the social world.  Thanem and Knights discuss methods, practices, and personal experiences which involve bodies in the research process – in generating and analysing empirical material, reflecting on the work they do as researchers, and turning research into written text. Embodied Research Methods is an important and practical resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students across the social sciences, and a thought-provoking read for researchers in these areas. 
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Embodied Research Methods engages with research approaches that exploit the body’s capacity to generate knowledge, craft lively accounts, and create fleshy concepts which enrich our understanding of how people live, work, and interact with their bodies in the social world.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Prelims Introduction: The embodied turn in social science research Chapter 1. Disembodied methodology Chapter 2. Embodied methodology Chapter 3. Initiating an embodied research process Chapter 4. Embodied immersion and ethnographic fieldwork Chapter 5. Embodying interviews and conversations Chapter 6. Recording and documenting embodied lives Chapter 7. Embodied analysis and interpretation Chapter 8. Embodied writing and dissemination Chapter 9. Truth and politics in embodied research Conclusion: Embodied imagination in future research Notes References Index
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This book will not only provoke its readers to think differently about embodiment. It will also get them to change the way they carry out their social investigations.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781473904415
Publisert
2019-04-22
Utgiver
Vendor
SAGE Publications Ltd
Vekt
350 gr
Høyde
242 mm
Bredde
170 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
184

Biographical note

David Knights is Professor in the Department of Organization, Work and Technology at the Lancaster University Management School, UK. His recent empirical research has been on academics and veterinary surgeons and his theoretical interests are lie in the field of the body and ethics, gender and diversity, identity and power, and management and leadership. He recently co-edited a book: Mabey C and D. Knights, Leadership Matters?: Finding Voice, Connection and Meaning in the 21st Century, (New York: Routledge, 2017). He was a co-founder and co-editor of Gender, Work and Organization from 1994-2016.