Mean-making and research rigour : approaches to the synthesis of multiple data sources in body mapping

Susan Collings, Angela Dew, Bernadette Curryer, Isabella Dillon Savage, Anna Tewson

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Abstract

![CDATA[Arts-based methods appeal to researchers because they offer the chance to gain unique insights about how people experience their worlds and novel ways to reflect on what they have seen and heard. The inherent diversity of methodologies and artistic activities involved in arts-based research is a well-recognised advantage (Rose, 2007). Body mapping is an arts-based method that is positioned at the intersection of research, community development, and art therapy. Arguably, to date, its relevance as a research tool has been seen as secondary to its power as a tool for advocacy and empowerment. Pioneers in body mapping research (Gastaldo et al., 2012) acknowledge that moving beyond description to a critical interpretation of body mapping data can be a challenge. As they have more recently argued in their critical synthesis of the literature, body mapping is pre-dominantly presented as a data generation method (Gastaldo et al., 2018). This edited collection represents an effort to address these criticisms and responds to the call for more empirically grounded work to progress the body mapping research field (de Jager et al., 2016). In this chapter, we consider how to approach research data available from body mapping to produce reliable and compelling results.]]
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationApplying Body Mapping in Research: An Arts-Based Method
EditorsKatherine M. Boydell
Place of PublicationU.K.
PublisherRoutledge
Pages57-66
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9780429340260
ISBN (Print)9780367355623
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

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