Methodologies of embodiment - call for chapters

[Mia Perry]

Call for chapters – Edited Volume


Working Title: Methodologies of Embodiment


Editors: Drs. Mia Perry (UBC) and Carmen
Medina (University of Indiana)


This
book will present a range of contemporary empirical work in embodiment grounded
in qualitative inquiry methods. The editors will draw together the issues and
complexities around researching the body in the context of humanities and
social science research, and select contributors who are approaching this
complex area in innovative, informed and rigorous ways. Much of the current
literature in embodiment studies explores conceptual and theoretical issues in
this field. There is an ever increasing recognition of the significance of the
body in research and there is an ever more sophisticated body of theory related
to this. What is still so often unspoken and unwritten however is what, where, and
how we might put the body at the centre, or even adjacent to the centre, of our
research? Feminist poststructural researchers have asked these questions for
many years (Ellsworth, Grosz, Pillow, Davies); the studies in this book will
respond to these questions by offering concrete examples of current empirical
research in embodiment. Methodology, methods, and analytic frames will be a
central focus to the contributions selected. 


In
this book we are interested in perspectives on embodiment and pedagogy (broadly
defined), where the body is perceived as a generative force that is part of
larger performance and pedagogical approaches. In other words we are interested
in chapters that examine ways in which the body inscribes and is inscribed
within research that foregrounds the cultural, social, affective, and political
discourses that are at the core of how bodies act and are acted upon. We
encourage submissions from a wide range of disciplines as well as
inter-disciplinary work. 


Areas of interests include, but are not
limited to, empirical studies situated in:

Rhizomatic analysis

Psychoanalysis

Feminism (structuralist and poststructuralist)

Queer studies

Phenomenology

Social semiotics 

Identity theory

Media education

Postcolonial theory

 

Please direct proposals and queries to both Editors:
Mia Perry (miajperry at hotmail.com) 

and Carmen Medina (cmedina at indiana.edu).  

 

Proposals of approximately 500 words plus a short CV
should be submitted as attached files in either MS Word or RTF format. Please
include your name, mailing address, e-mail, and phone number in the cover
message. Proposals must be received by April 15, 2011 to receive full
consideration.  

 

Authors whose proposals are selected by the editors
will be notified by May 15, 2011. Publication of all material will be subject
to publisher approval. 

 

The Editors:

Dr. Mia Perry is a recently graduated PhD from the
University of British Columbia, Canada. She works in the intersections of
performance, pedagogy, and philosophy, and is currently focused on
poststructural qualitative inquiry in applied theatre. She has formerly studied
and practiced theatre at the Samuel Beckett Centre, University Trinity College
Dublin, The Russian Academy of Theatre Arts in Moscow, and the Central School
of Speech and Drama in London. Mia has published in a variety of academic and
trade journals including Research in
Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and performance; The Youth
Theatre Journal; The Canadian Theatre
Review; Pedagogies: An International Journal; and Theatre Research in Canada.
Her doctoral dissertation is entitled: “Theatre as a place of learning: The
forces and affects of devised theatre processes in education.” 


Dr. Carmen L. Medina
is assistant
professor in the department of Literacy, culture and language education at
Indiana University, Bloomington. 
Her work focuses on critical literacies and performative pedagogies with
young children.  She is currently
working on various research projects to examine the role of performative
pedagogies in relation to current globalization discourses and practices
(including the politics involved in children’s transnational practices and
child positioning in relation to global markets).  Her work has been published in scholarly journals such as Research in Drama in Education, Reading Research Quarterly, Youth Theatre Journal and Language Arts among others.

 

 




Mia Perry, PhD
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
t. +604-725-4509
e. miajperry at hotmail.com
http://ubc.academia.edu/MiaPerry/About



 		 	   		  
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