Collaborative Body in Qualitative Research

<p><em>The Collaborative Body in Qualitative Research</em> 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.</p><p>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 on 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.</p><p>This book will encourage all scholars to do research differently. Anyone with a thirst to challenge normative practices in academia and who wants research to be inspiring and playful will fall in love with this book.</p><p><b>N.B. Please cite the authorship of this book as 'The Bodies Collective (2023)'</b></p>