Meanings
plural corporeographies
- An approach to research in which the researcher's bodily and emotional experiences are foregrounded.
As a research strategy, corporeography names a specific dual interest in the bodily and emotional experiences of others and in the knowledge-making capacities of the researching body itself.
2011, Catherine Robinson, Beside One's Self: Homelessness Felt and Lived, Syracuse University Press, page 172 more examples
I want to argue that the body is that “pre-post-erous space,” the site of a corporeography that conjoins the dynamic political economy of signification–its written surface and writing instrument.
1989, Vicki Kirby, “Corporeographies”, in Inscriptions, number 5In attuning to the errors of air quality index on Sina Weibo, this piece suggests a rethinking of the method of following not simply as a response to a call, but as simultaneously responding and calling. Such a method makes visible the corporeography of the research assemblage that affords a reconceptualisation of anthropocentrism.
2019, Rebecca Coleman et al., “Feminist New Materialist Practice: The Mattering of Methods”, in MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture, number 4
Origin
Coined by anthropologist Vicki Kirby in 1989, from corporeo- + -graphy.
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