| Owner: |
Anani M. Vasquez
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| Owner Email: |
ananimv@yahoo.com
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| Paper Title: |
Rewilding Bodymemories in Qualitative Inquiry
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| Session Title: |
Expansive Ways of Knowing and Researching (Table 5)
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| Paper Type: |
Roundtable Presentation
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| Presentation Date: |
4/12/2024
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| Presentation Location: |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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| Descriptors: |
Diversity, Memory, Qualitative Research
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| Methodology: |
Conceptual/Theoretical
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| Author(s): |
Anani M. Vasquez, Neurodiversity Education Research Center; Mirka E. Koro, Arizona State University; Christie Byers, George Mason University
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| Unit: |
SIG-Qualitative Research
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| Abstract: |
Post-qualitative, process, and new/materialist philosophies have foregrounded the importance of living and wild thinking. Accordingly, we engaged with rewilding bodymemories, a concept combining scholarship on embodied/body memory, collective memory work, and a rewilding memory study using autistic memory work. Seeking to decenter neurotypicality in academia, we experimented with entanglements between researchers, vibrant objects, memories, and ecologies while exploring these acts of relating during interview and transcription processes. By designing methods that include open (to all senses) interviews with vibrant objects and transcription techniques that match the modes of communication used, bodymemories were perceived in multiple ways and through, sometimes unexpected, connections. Rewilding bodymemories offers methodological possibilities for social transformation that is also deeply integrated into the natural world.
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| DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.3102/2097884
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