Overview
- Mobilises the new concept of 'mesearch'? to describe the process of creative enquiry
- Explores the intersection between embodiment and performance work
- Offers three striking examples of creative research projects
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“This work is of genuine originality. There is little existing research on the relationship of self-age(ing) of either dance or (even less) drag. The author offers a counterbalance of a considered framework of autoethnography (he posits the neologism ‘mesearch’). Edward deliberately courts the personal alongside a poetic style of writing that rests amongst the academic.” (Professor Simon Piasecki, Liverpool Hope University, UK)
“The interdisciplinary, autoethnographic scope of Edward’s book is refreshingly original, and makes a significant contribution to the fields of performance and embodiment studies. In focusing on three performance pieces to consider how embodiment and subjectivity are interrelated, Edward supplies specific and tangible ‘hooks’ on which the theory is hung.” (Professor Emma Rees, University of Chester, UK)“Contemplating research and worried by how to manage objectivity? Don’t be. Here’s a refreshing book of less than 100 pages that, with due rigour, contributes to a more creative research agenda – and one that involves critical analysis of sociological and practice-based literatures and that foregrounds the value of (inevitable) subjectivity in research.” (Dr Paul Simpson)
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Book Title: Mesearch and the Performing Body
Authors: Mark Edward
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69998-1
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69997-4Published: 07 February 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69998-1Published: 23 January 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 112
Number of Illustrations: 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Performing Arts, Performers and Practitioners, Self and Identity