The Collaborative Body in Qualitative Research - Becoming Bodyography

The Collaborative Body in Qualitative Research challenges normative philosophies that have frequently neglected the body’s place in research, and then illustrates how the body is essential for all meaning making. By ‘voicing the body’, the first part of this rebellious book problematizes how the body is used/assessed, yet often silenced in academic writing. This book then fluidly moves to celebrating the body through discussing taboo topics like sex/sexuality in friendship, underwear (knickers), ageing and death, as well as how a non-binary body moves in a heteronormative world. Through the lens of Bodyography, this book does research differently - illuminating how the body flourishes, excites knowledge, and is complicated when placed in a ‘screen’. This book celebrates a collaborative and arts-based approach. This book is a dialogue between The Bodies Collective with dialogic resonance sections between each chapter and art pieces throughout. This book will engage all scholars to do research differently. Anyone with a thirst to challenge normative practices in academia and wants research to be inspiring and playful will fall in love with this book.