Playing With Embodied Data Analysis in Postintentional Phenomenological Research

• In Event: 46.086 - Roundtable Session 16
  In Roundtable Session: 46.086-20 - Methodological Issues for a Postworld

Abstract

In this paper, we continue to imagine the post in post-intentional phenomenology (First Author, 2010, 2011, 2014)--finding that the phenomenological practice of “data analysis” must be continually played with. That is, instead of orienting ourselves to the work of struggling toward a destination (e.g., finding phenomenological essences or themes), we use the animating, enlivening embodied moments to guide our analytic play (McLaren,1999; Stucky & Wimmer, 2002). Currently, we are playing analytically with data we have gathered in a study entitled, Social Class-Sensitive Photo Storying--and are working to pay attention to how we experience and perceive our classed bodies as we analyze data in our study.

Authors

• Mark D. Vagle, University of Minnesota

• Colleen Clements, University of Minnesota

• Angela Coffee, University of Minnesota