How Writing Touches

An Intimate Scholarly Collaboration
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4438-3625-8
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 195 Seiten

Five scholars met as writers at a workshop at the 2007 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry and made a commitment to write over the following year to, for and with each other. It became an experiment in the craft of autoethnography, exploring questions of intimacy and connection manifested through collaborative writing. Each year since then, the authors have returned to the Congress to read a small anthology of the year’s writing—and to decide whether or not to continue. This book covers the first two years of that writing, offering stories of how writing touches, how it writes bodies into being and in between. It is an affecting, radical work, exploring love and intimacy as scholarly, messy, complex methodology—writing that often affirms and sometimes disturbs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gale, Ken

Pelias, Ronald J.

Russell, Larry

Spry, Tami

Wyatt, Jonathan

Über Autor(innen)

Ken Gale works in the Faculty of Health, Education and Society at the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom. His particular teaching and research interests are located within the philosophy of education, poststructural theory, and the application of narrative and autoethnographic approaches in education.

Ronald J. Pelias is a Professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Speech Communication at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA. His most recent book is Leaning: A Poetics of Personal Relations (Left Coast Press).

Larry Russell is an Associate Professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Speech Communication, Rhetoric, and Performance Studies at Hofstra University, New York, USA. He has written about healing performances in ethnographies of ritual practice at Chimayó, a pilgrimage site in New Mexico.

Tami Spry is a Professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at St. Cloud State University, Minnesota, USA. Her book Body, Paper, Stage: Writing and Performing Autoethnography (2011) is published by Left Coast Press.

Jonathan Wyatt is Head of Professional Development and a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, and a counselor in private practice. His co-authored book Deleuze and Collaborative Writing (2011) is published by Peter Lang.