corporeography
corporeography noun: an approach to research in which the researcher's bodily and emotional experiences are foregrounded.
Noun
corporeography (plural corporeographies)
- An approach to research in which the researcher's bodily and emotional experiences are foregrounded.
- I want to argue that the body is that “pre-post-erous space,” the site of a corporeography that conjoins the dynamic political economy of signification–its written surface and writing instrument.1989, Vicki Kirby, “Corporeographies”, in Inscriptions, number 5
- As a research strategy, corporeography names a specific dual interest in the bodily and emotional experiences of others and in the knowledge-making capacities of the researching body itself.2011, Catherine Robinson, Beside One's Self: Homelessness Felt and Lived, Syracuse University Press, page 17
Forms of corporeography
| plural | corporeographies |
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Origin of corporeography
Coined by anthropologist Vicki Kirby in 1989, from corporeo- + -graphy.
Questions about corporeography
- What does corporeography mean?
- Corporeography means an approach to research in which the researcher's bodily and emotional experiences are foregrounded.
- What part of speech is corporeography?
- Corporeography is a noun.
- What is the plural of corporeography?
- The plural of corporeography is corporeographies.
Words near corporeography in the dictionary
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