In this session Dr Elsa Urmston will consider the body as a site of knowledge as well as a tool for generating knowledge. Embodiment is a complex construct with varied meanings in different fields. What unifies research on embodiment is its emphasis on the body, where embodied knowledge production challenges Cartesian privileging of mind over body as the locus of knowledge. Drawing on phenomenological understandings of embodiment where the body is proposed as an epistemological site, and move...
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In this session Dr Elsa Urmston will consider the body as a site of knowledge as well as a tool for generating knowledge. Embodiment is a complex construct with varied meanings in different fields. What unifies research on embodiment is its emphasis on the body, where embodied knowledge production challenges Cartesian privileging of mind over body as the locus of knowledge. Drawing on phenomenological understandings of embodiment where the body is proposed as an epistemological site, and move...
Discomfort and vulnerability as a research process.
Practice As Research
58 minutes
1 year ago
Discomfort and vulnerability as a research process.
In this seminar, Leri Price discusses discomfort and vulnerability within the context of her research with Syrian women living in Scotland. Creative methods are often embraced as a means of addressing the power imbalance between participant and researcher. Committing to this does involve risk on the part of the researcher, however. How can researchers respect participants’ agency while also ensuring that they answer their own needs? And how far can, or should, discomfort be a part of this pro...
Practice As Research
In this session Dr Elsa Urmston will consider the body as a site of knowledge as well as a tool for generating knowledge. Embodiment is a complex construct with varied meanings in different fields. What unifies research on embodiment is its emphasis on the body, where embodied knowledge production challenges Cartesian privileging of mind over body as the locus of knowledge. Drawing on phenomenological understandings of embodiment where the body is proposed as an epistemological site, and move...
