Ethnography In and With Bodies: Embodied Learning and the Academic Life

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dc.citation.issue1
dc.citation.volume2
dc.contributor.authorMcKinnon K
dc.contributor.authorDombroski K
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-18T23:50:43Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-19T20:38:42Z
dc.date.available2023-10-18T23:50:43Z
dc.date.available2023-10-19T20:38:42Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-19
dc.date.updated2023-10-18T23:26:08Z
dc.description.abstractThe body is a vital part of ethnographic experience and learning. This essay reflects on the complex work that the body does during ethnography, not just as an instrument for data collection, but as a means of collaboration, a site of embodied learning, and a conduit for connection and communication that is more-than-verbal. In this contribution we reflect on research engagements that have been profoundly embodied, involving deep embodied learning and communication, touch and connection in the contexts of childbirth, infant care, and midwifery. Building on experiences in China, Laos, New Zealand, and Australia, we discuss the richness and the challenges of consciously collaborating with, in, and via bodies and embodied communications. We also explore what might be learned from the embodied experience of ethnography that we can bring back into academic life: are there lessons we can learn from collaborating with bodies that can help us to thrive amongst the challenges of the neoliberal university?
dc.format.extent11-26
dc.identifier.citationMcKinnon K, Dombroski K. (2019). Ethnography In and With Bodies Embodied Learning and the Academic Life. Commoning Ethnography. 2. 1. (pp. 11-26).
dc.identifier.doi10.26686/ce.v2i1.5697
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
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dc.identifier.issn2537-9879
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/20349
dc.publisherVictoria University of Wellington
dc.publisher.urihttps://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/ce/article/view/5697/5273
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dc.rightsCC BYen_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.titleEthnography In and With Bodies: Embodied Learning and the Academic Life
dc.typeJournal article
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