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Embodied Performance as Applied Research, Art and PedagogyChapter 6: Hyper-Embodiment and Outsider-Research-Pursuing Empathy and Connection in the Field

Embodied Performance as Applied Research, Art and Pedagogy: Chapter 6: Hyper-Embodiment and... [This chapter is an autoethnography of a critical qualitative open-ended narrative researcher/professor navigating skepticism surrounding her motives and methodology from a research participant and a quantitative social scientist. An interviewee’s questions about why she would be interested in elders’ personal narratives of memory loss crystallize the challenges of developing rapport as an outsider in the research field. The author asserts that a “hyper-embodied” approach to personal narrative research offers opportunities to embrace shared physical and social vulnerability, pursue empathetic connection, and transform culture through storytelling. Back at her office, a conversation with a colleague crystallizes the tensions surrounding the differing goals of positivist social scientific versus critical/post-structural performance research. The author reflects on the hopes and possibilities of personal narrative research.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Embodied Performance as Applied Research, Art and PedagogyChapter 6: Hyper-Embodiment and Outsider-Research-Pursuing Empathy and Connection in the Field

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
ISBN
978-3-319-63660-3
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115 –129
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10.1007/978-3-319-63661-0_7
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[This chapter is an autoethnography of a critical qualitative open-ended narrative researcher/professor navigating skepticism surrounding her motives and methodology from a research participant and a quantitative social scientist. An interviewee’s questions about why she would be interested in elders’ personal narratives of memory loss crystallize the challenges of developing rapport as an outsider in the research field. The author asserts that a “hyper-embodied” approach to personal narrative research offers opportunities to embrace shared physical and social vulnerability, pursue empathetic connection, and transform culture through storytelling. Back at her office, a conversation with a colleague crystallizes the tensions surrounding the differing goals of positivist social scientific versus critical/post-structural performance research. The author reflects on the hopes and possibilities of personal narrative research.]

Published: Nov 9, 2017

Keywords: Autoethnography; Narrative Inquiry; Qualitative Methods Class; audienceAudience; Performance Ethnography

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