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Embodied Methodologies, Participation, and the Art of Research
Author(s) -
Fox Madeline
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
social and personality psychology compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.699
H-Index - 53
ISSN - 1751-9004
DOI - 10.1111/spc3.12182
Subject(s) - embodied cognition , participatory action research , scholarship , citizen journalism , meaning (existential) , perspective (graphical) , epistemology , sociology , psychology , action (physics) , process (computing) , computer science , political science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , world wide web , anthropology , law , operating system
In this article, I make the case for scholarship potential at the overlap of art and research. Using the case of the psychological study of adolescence, I show that in order to produce findings of meaning from a critical psychological perspective, it is imperative to consider methodology and epistemology. With a focus on artistic embodied methodologies within participatory action research projects on adolescence, I explore how creative approaches can be an analytic process for knowledge production in the critical social sciences. I argue that the artistic approaches employed using embodied methodologies can be considered as a way to make meaning and that especially within participatory research, these approaches can strengthen validity. In response to the epistemological violence (Teo, 2010) of some conventional social psychological studies, participatory artistic embodied methodologies contribute to building liberatory knowledge and rigorous science.