Vionnet, Claire (18 June 2021). Sensitive knowledge through an autoethnography of Contact Improvisation (Unpublished). In: International Conference "Performing Memory Through Dance Anthropological Perspectives". Ca’ Foscari University of Venice [online]. 17-18 June 2021.
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Employing fieldwork in contact improvisation in Montreal, I will emphasise the sensitive knowledge we can gain from ethnographic methodologies. Based on an excerpt of my ethnographic account, I will highlight the benefits of auto-ethnography. As a social phenomenon, auto-ethnography allows the creation of a space to explore the conventions/taboos regulating touch and the redefinition of intimate boundaries that are shaped under circumstances of narrow proximity. In this research, auto-ethnography discloses aspects of the mindful body, such as the interrelatedness between touch, weight, intention and emotions. Fieldwork experience, by leaving a sensitive memory in the anthropologist’s body, shapes academic writing. Regarding this latter premise, I will show how it gains affect and sensoriality.
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Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Other Institutions > Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBKolleg) > Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Network (IRN) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Vionnet, Claire |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology 700 Arts |
Funders: |
[4] Swiss National Science Foundation |
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Projects 0 not found. |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Claire Vionnet |
Date Deposited: |
29 Nov 2022 10:40 |
Last Modified: |
20 Feb 2023 09:03 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Autoethnography - Contact improvisation –Interculturality – Intimacy - Touch |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/175204 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/175204 |
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