Artful Collaborative Inquiry: Making and Writing Creative, Qualitative Research

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Artful Collaborative Inquiry comprises essays created collectively by a group of scholars and artists, the majority of whom have several decades of experience of working together. The book challenges commonly-held, individualistic beliefs about ownership, authorship and scholarly and artistic ethics and practices. The essays exemplify the entangled kinds of scholarly and artistic works that emerge in a post-human world, where humans, other species, environments, things and other matters, all matter and are of equal concern in the conduct of ethical artful scholarship. Situated at the (messy) crossroads where contemporary scholarship and artistic practice converge, the seamless mo(ve)ment and interplay between text and image make up the main body of the work in this book. The chapters combine the playful use and merging of time, space and place, researcher and researched, to give a unique exemplar of research and creativity in the rapidly emerging field of collaborative scholarship. It will be of particular interest to creative and qualitative scholars wishing to conduct more artful research, and artists engaging with scholarship. Cover Title Copyright Artful Collaboration Forward Contents Acknowledgements. List of figures. Introduction(s) to this body of works/bodily workings/works of these bodies. Part one: Keeping the Inquiry Space Open. Introduction to part one. Chapter one. Everyday Fragments on the Ceiling of Room 407: An Open Narrative Inquiry Space. Chapter two. Making Meaning of Life-Changing Events. Part two: Inviting Other Scholars Into Our Space. Introduction to part two. Chapter three. Riffing off Tami: Tami Spry’s Performative Call and Our Collaborative Response. Chapter four. Meandering and Writing Alongside Doreen Massey. Part three: Playing in Other/Outside Spaces. Introduction to part three. Chapter five. Pockets. Chapter six. Cozy Crimes and Deadly Deeds. Part four: Coming Together and Falling Apart. Introduction to part four. Chapter seven. Remembering Sue: Last Writes. Chapter eight. Epilogue. References. List of contributors. Index.