David Knights is Professor in the Department of Organization, Work and Technology at the Lancaster University Management School, UK. His recent empirical research has been on academics and veterinary surgeons and his theoretical interests are lie in the field of the body and ethics, gender and diversity, identity and power, and management and leadership. He recently co-edited a book: Mabey C and D. Knights, Leadership Matters?: Finding Voice, Connection and Meaning in the 21st Century, (New York: Routledge, 2017). He was a co-founder and co-editor of Gender, Work and Organization from 1994-2016.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Prelims Introduction: The embodied turn in social science research Chapter 1. Disembodied methodology Chapter 2. Embodied methodology Chapter 3. Initiating an embodied research process Chapter 4. Embodied immersion and ethnographic fieldwork Chapter 5. Embodying interviews and conversations Chapter 6. Recording and documenting embodied lives Chapter 7. Embodied analysis and interpretation Chapter 8. Embodied writing and dissemination Chapter 9. Truth and politics in embodied research Conclusion: Embodied imagination in future research Notes References Index
This book will not only provoke its readers to think differently about embodiment. It will also get them to change the way they carry out their social investigations. -- Loic Wacquant This book is a pleasant experience for scientists who want to put feeling in their research [translated from dutch] -- Jillis Kors * Amsterdam University Press *