D Carle
Biographic Data
| ID | 5618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Carle |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Carle |
| SIGNATURE | CARLE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1617-493X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
‘Razors in the Sand’: Witnessing, Engaging, and Protecting One Another in Threatening Times
How might we sustain engagement in critical qualitative research in times of heightened risk and uncertainty? How do we remain connected to the communities we serve? What processes sustain ourselves and each other as we work? This collaborative autoethnography explores three ways we respond to these questions: First, through sustaining caring dialogue that invites us to feel part of – and invested in – each other’s everyday entanglements in ways …
Presence: Flints, Fragments, and Transatlantic Foraging
This performance was written in 2024 for the Special Interest Group in Autoethnography, in honour of Norman Denzin and his work and presence to the SIG and autoethnography, and for our community at this time
Standing Firm: Autoethnography and Speculative Futures
This collaborative autoethnography reflects on 2020, the year of lockdown. During this year, we did a lot of walking. Markers within our physical environment provoked and inspired us to consider anew the paths that lie ahead for autoethnography and for us, in our collective work as autoethnographers
“You Think You’re Going to Get Better”: A Creative-Relational Inquiry Into Long Covid and Physical Activity
This creative-relational inquiry explores the lived experience of people suffering from Long Covid. Responding to calls for a publicly oriented qualitative inquiry, we collaborate across an extended project team to develop and share an accessible and engaging performance text which advocates for and supports those who live precariously as a result of contracting Long Covid. We offer our performance text as a resource to inform and guide personal,…
Sand in Sculpture: Creatively Rewilding Ecologies of Health
Through this creative-relational inquiry, we pursue a radically new way of conceptualizing, researching, communicating, and practicing health and health care in contemporary times. We write to reimagine what an alternative paradigm that is at once humane, democratic, accessible, inclusive, generative, and resolutely open to diversity in its many forms might look and feel like. We begin by presenting the script of an autoethnographic film that exp…
Where Spirit Meets Bone: A Meditation on Embodied Qualitative Inquiry
This performance autoethnography explores the ways that song writing and yoga, as forms of embodied practice, might inform the methodologies of autoethnography and qualitative inquiry. Throughout the piece, I share and reflect on moments in my own song writing and yoga practice which have helped me develop as a qualitative researcher
Norman Denzin and America
A personal appreciation of the life and work of Norman Denzin
There Was a Queer Guy: A Performative Poetic Inquiry Into Heterosexism
At a time when hate crimes related to sexuality and gender identity are increasing and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) youth are disproportionately more likely to attempt suicide, this critical poetic inquiry revisits our shared history of heterosexism. Specifically, through the methodology of performance autoethnography, I explore some of the processes through which heterosexism, homophobia, and heteronormativity have oper…
Seven Days in Lockdown: A Performance Autoethnography of Physical Activity and Mental Health
COVID-19 increased anxiety levels worldwide. Significant mental health consequences are becoming evident across society, from children to seniors. The pandemic left millions of people out of work or unable to work. It simultaneously increased stress levels for many who remained in work. It made day-to-day life worse-much worse-for a lot of people. I was not immune to these difficulties. Yet, paradoxically, I found that lockdown also offered circu…
What Can a Song Bring? Balancing Out the Picture in Pandemic
How might we personally and collectively contain the burnout and emotional depletion that has arisen as a consequence of COVID-19? For some, the pandemic has been a further stressor on top of pre-existing trauma. Under these circumstances, how can we continue our work of intervening into the challenges and demands that face our communities? Here, I turn to a song – called It’s Alright – written and sung not only as a response, but also as a survi…
Evoking Embodied Presence: These Things , Songwriting, Filmmaking, and Borrowing a Performative Trick From Bob Dylan
Our performative contribution to the 2019 Special Interest Group in autoethnography provided an opportunity to consider the materiality of absence and presence. Using the film These Things and the research-inspired song that underpins the film, we explore how a 5-min multimedia performative act opened possibilities for solidarity and resistance, offering ways to include the absent other
Much Louder Than I Am: A Musical Collaborative Autoethnography
One challenge of performative research is that a performance is a one-time unique event. It cannot be preserved or returned to in its own form. Here, we offer a more durable artifact to preserve some aspects of the collaborative performance autoethnography we performed at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) in 2018. We write to communicate not only what we performed during the session but also our sentiments concerning singin…
There is a Chance: Songwriting for Hope as Critical Qualitative Research
How to sustain hope amidst loss during repressive times? It may not be enough to voice the words “there is a chance”. But can the act of writing a song, of singing that song, of making a noise, constitute a commitment towards ensuring that there is a chance
Mathew and Me: A Musical Performance Autoethnography Exploring Same-Sex Attraction in Sport
Mathew and Me is a musical performance autoethnography that explores embodied experiences of same-sex attraction between men within heteronormative sport cultures. The performance comprises a layering of original songs, performance poetry, and personal narrative. Songwriting is used as a critical arts-based methodology to discover, interrogate, and communicate fragmentary, sensory, and embodied remembrances of lived experience. Alongside a textua…
Community of I
Perhaps autoethnography is not about the self at all; perhaps it is instead about a wilful embodiment of “we.”’1Alone, despair seems inevitable, paralyzing. Together, we might be able to keep Our bearings toward social justice.2* * *[“The Tree Song,”3 sung to a finger-picked acoustic guitar]Come on in and listen to meBathing in wisdom, a mighty treeShoulders so wide you can lean uponIf you’re looking for answersI’m the oneRead the book and I’ve s…
Cowboys and Pirates in Mental Health Care: A Musical Autoethnography
A cowboy can be defined as 'an unscrupulous tradesman' and a pirate can be 'a person or organization broadcasting without official authorisation.' Looking through a subversive lens, I see both cowboys and pirates operating within the mental health care professions. Cowboys can be validated, authorized, rewarded, and empowered through the machinery of evidence-based medicine. Pirates may be criticized, restricted, marginalized, or dismissed by the…
Under One Roof
In this essay we share a musical performance ethnography, titled Under One Roof, as an example of one approach to critical arts-based research. The piece stems from commissioned research that took the form of an ethnography of an urban-supported housing scheme for people over 50 years of age. We discuss some tensions of conducting radical democratic performative work within a political climate characterized by the commodification of knowledge and…
Everyone Knows Me as the Weird Kid: Being Bisexual, Genderfluid, and Fifteen
Everyone Knows Me as the Weird Kid is a performance text created from collaborative narrative interviews between the first author and a 15-year-old participant named Max who identifies as bisexual and genderfluid. The performance explores how Max negotiates a range of challenges-including homophobia, transphobia, bullying, and harassment-on a day-to-day basis. It offers evocative insights into life as a young person with an intersecting identity …
‘ There were other guys in the same boat as myself’: The role of homosocial environments in sustaining men’s engagement in health interventions
Current approaches to obesity recommend weight control strategies that focus on energy-restricted diets and increased physical activity. However, these approaches meet with (at best) limited success despite being central to evidence, policy and practice. There is apparently more to weight loss, including potentially important psychosocial processes that affect behaviour change. Using an ethnographic and narrative approach, this study explored the…
Engaging with arts-based research: A story in three parts
Qualitative psychology researchers of today face numerous practical, ethical, political and theoretical challenges. We have often asked ourselves how we might respond to these multiple and complex challenges. On our evolving research journeys, we have found that arts-based methodologies offer one effective response. We explore here our experiences of doing arts-based research in psychological contexts, by sharing and reflecting on three short sto…
Art-based research as waves of embodied engagement: Reflections on ‘Across the Tamar’
‘Across the Tamar’ began as a research project exploring the physical activity, health and lifestyle of women over 60 in Cornwall, UK. It evolved into a multidimensional, long-running art-based health research project incorporating songs, stories and poetry into live performances, an audio CD and series of YouTube films. In this article, we share some dialogical reflections on our journey through the project to suggest that an important contribut…
It's a Leap of Faith, Writing a Song
In this article I offer stories and reflections around my experiences of writing songs as a way of doing arts-based and performative research. In particular, I explore how we, as an academic community, respond to each other's critical, reflexive work. I write to stimulate reflection and discussion among readers about how best to—and how not to—respond to these forms of scholarship. I invite readers to consider the effects of their responses not o…
Bringing Art Back to Psychology
Narrating embodied experience: Sharing stories of trauma and recovery
In this paper, we explore our use of a dialogical storytelling approach to alleviate some of the tensions involved in researching another person's embodied experience. These tensions concern the problems of (a) how to access another's embodied experience and (b) how to represent that experience. We consider these issues through sharing creative nonfiction stories, alongside theoretical reflections, drawn from our research into the meaning and val…
Friendly, flexible and fun. Men's experiences of a weight management programme
Negotiating sexuality and masculinity in school sport: An autoethnography
This autoethnography explores challenging and ethically sensitive issues around sexual orientation, sexual identity and masculinity in the context of school sport. Through storytelling, I aim to show how sometimes ambiguous encounters with heterosexism, homophobia and hegemonic masculinity through sport problematise identity development for young same-sex attracted males. By foregrounding personal embodied experience, I respond to an absence of s…
Engaging with arts-based research: A story in three parts
Qualitative psychology researchers of today face numerous practical, ethical, political and theoretical challenges. We have often asked ourselves how we might respond to these multiple and complex challenges. On our evolving research journeys, we have found that arts-based methodologies offer one effective response. We explore here our experiences of doing arts-based research in psychological contexts, by sharing and reflecting on three short sto…
An Invitation to Performative Research
Across the social sciences there has been a growing interest in arts-based and performative methodologies. Over the past decade we have created a number of research based performances utilising songs, poems and stories. Alongside these, we have also begun to explore the potential of this work through conducting further research which analyses responses from different audiences (lay and academic) to each performance. In this article we reflect som…
Narrating embodied experience: Sharing stories of trauma and recovery
In this paper, we explore our use of a dialogical storytelling approach to alleviate some of the tensions involved in researching another person's embodied experience. These tensions concern the problems of (a) how to access another's embodied experience and (b) how to represent that experience. We consider these issues through sharing creative nonfiction stories, alongside theoretical reflections, drawn from our research into the meaning and val…
Opening Doors: Poetic Representation of the Sport Experiences of Men With Severe Mental Health Difficulties
We present here a series of poetic representations that stem from our research into the sport and exercise experiences of men with severe mental health difficulties. Relying exclusively on scientific or realist tales risks omitting or misrepresenting participants' sometimes "messy" stories. By allowing space for these stories, which may not be considered "good stories" in terms of traditional narrative criteria of content, form, coherence, or plo…
Sharing a Different Voice: Attending to Stories in Collaborative Writing
Through three stories, we hope to reveal how sometimes contradictory or unrecognizable aspects of our lives, selves, and stories can create tensions in the collaborative writing endeavor. We begin with a story that illuminates some of the narrative tensions that surface during a decade of writing collaboratively. In an effort to navigate these tensions, we explore two further stories in dialogue as a way to reveal how dominant narratives shape ou…
Who the Hell Was That ? Stories, Bodies and Actions in the World
This article explores a two-way relationship between stories and the experiential actions of bodies in the world. Through an autoethnographic approach, the article presents a series of interlinked story fragments in an effort to show and evoke a feel for the ways in which stories, bodies, and actions influence and shape each other over time. It offers some reflections on the experiences the stories portray from the perspective of a social constru…
Community of I
Perhaps autoethnography is not about the self at all; perhaps it is instead about a wilful embodiment of “we.”’1Alone, despair seems inevitable, paralyzing. Together, we might be able to keep Our bearings toward social justice.2* * *[“The Tree Song,”3 sung to a finger-picked acoustic guitar]Come on in and listen to meBathing in wisdom, a mighty treeShoulders so wide you can lean uponIf you’re looking for answersI’m the oneRead the book and I’ve s…
Narrative, Identity, and Recovery from Serious Mental Illness: A Life History of a Runner
In recent years, researchers have investigated the psychological effects of exercise for people with mental health problems, often by focusing on how exercise may alleviate symptoms of mental illness. In this article I take a different tack to explore the ways in which exercise contributed a sense of meaning, purpose, and identity to the life of one individual named Ben, a runner diagnosed with schizophrenia. Drawing on life history data, I condu…
Sand in Sculpture: Creatively Rewilding Ecologies of Health
Through this creative-relational inquiry, we pursue a radically new way of conceptualizing, researching, communicating, and practicing health and health care in contemporary times. We write to reimagine what an alternative paradigm that is at once humane, democratic, accessible, inclusive, generative, and resolutely open to diversity in its many forms might look and feel like. We begin by presenting the script of an autoethnographic film that exp…
There Was a Queer Guy: A Performative Poetic Inquiry Into Heterosexism
At a time when hate crimes related to sexuality and gender identity are increasing and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) youth are disproportionately more likely to attempt suicide, this critical poetic inquiry revisits our shared history of heterosexism. Specifically, through the methodology of performance autoethnography, I explore some of the processes through which heterosexism, homophobia, and heteronormativity have oper…
Narrative, Identity, and Recovery from Serious Mental Illness: A Life History of a Runner
In recent years, researchers have investigated the psychological effects of exercise for people with mental health problems, often by focusing on how exercise may alleviate symptoms of mental illness. In this article I take a different tack to explore the ways in which exercise contributed a sense of meaning, purpose, and identity to the life of one individual named Ben, a runner diagnosed with schizophrenia. Drawing on life history data, I condu…
Opening Doors: Poetic Representation of the Sport Experiences of Men With Severe Mental Health Difficulties
We present here a series of poetic representations that stem from our research into the sport and exercise experiences of men with severe mental health difficulties. Relying exclusively on scientific or realist tales risks omitting or misrepresenting participants' sometimes "messy" stories. By allowing space for these stories, which may not be considered "good stories" in terms of traditional narrative criteria of content, form, coherence, or plo…
Who the Hell Was That ? Stories, Bodies and Actions in the World
This article explores a two-way relationship between stories and the experiential actions of bodies in the world. Through an autoethnographic approach, the article presents a series of interlinked story fragments in an effort to show and evoke a feel for the ways in which stories, bodies, and actions influence and shape each other over time. It offers some reflections on the experiences the stories portray from the perspective of a social constru…
Negotiating sexuality and masculinity in school sport: An autoethnography
This autoethnography explores challenging and ethically sensitive issues around sexual orientation, sexual identity and masculinity in the context of school sport. Through storytelling, I aim to show how sometimes ambiguous encounters with heterosexism, homophobia and hegemonic masculinity through sport problematise identity development for young same-sex attracted males. By foregrounding personal embodied experience, I respond to an absence of s…
An Invitation to Performative Research
Across the social sciences there has been a growing interest in arts-based and performative methodologies. Over the past decade we have created a number of research based performances utilising songs, poems and stories. Alongside these, we have also begun to explore the potential of this work through conducting further research which analyses responses from different audiences (lay and academic) to each performance. In this article we reflect som…
Sharing a Different Voice: Attending to Stories in Collaborative Writing
Through three stories, we hope to reveal how sometimes contradictory or unrecognizable aspects of our lives, selves, and stories can create tensions in the collaborative writing endeavor. We begin with a story that illuminates some of the narrative tensions that surface during a decade of writing collaboratively. In an effort to navigate these tensions, we explore two further stories in dialogue as a way to reveal how dominant narratives shape ou…
Narrating embodied experience: Sharing stories of trauma and recovery
In this paper, we explore our use of a dialogical storytelling approach to alleviate some of the tensions involved in researching another person's embodied experience. These tensions concern the problems of (a) how to access another's embodied experience and (b) how to represent that experience. We consider these issues through sharing creative nonfiction stories, alongside theoretical reflections, drawn from our research into the meaning and val…
Friendly, flexible and fun. Men's experiences of a weight management programme
Bringing Art Back to Psychology
Art-based research as waves of embodied engagement: Reflections on ‘Across the Tamar’
‘Across the Tamar’ began as a research project exploring the physical activity, health and lifestyle of women over 60 in Cornwall, UK. It evolved into a multidimensional, long-running art-based health research project incorporating songs, stories and poetry into live performances, an audio CD and series of YouTube films. In this article, we share some dialogical reflections on our journey through the project to suggest that an important contribut…
It's a Leap of Faith, Writing a Song
In this article I offer stories and reflections around my experiences of writing songs as a way of doing arts-based and performative research. In particular, I explore how we, as an academic community, respond to each other's critical, reflexive work. I write to stimulate reflection and discussion among readers about how best to—and how not to—respond to these forms of scholarship. I invite readers to consider the effects of their responses not o…
Engaging with arts-based research: A story in three parts
Qualitative psychology researchers of today face numerous practical, ethical, political and theoretical challenges. We have often asked ourselves how we might respond to these multiple and complex challenges. On our evolving research journeys, we have found that arts-based methodologies offer one effective response. We explore here our experiences of doing arts-based research in psychological contexts, by sharing and reflecting on three short sto…
‘ There were other guys in the same boat as myself’: The role of homosocial environments in sustaining men’s engagement in health interventions
Current approaches to obesity recommend weight control strategies that focus on energy-restricted diets and increased physical activity. However, these approaches meet with (at best) limited success despite being central to evidence, policy and practice. There is apparently more to weight loss, including potentially important psychosocial processes that affect behaviour change. Using an ethnographic and narrative approach, this study explored the…
Under One Roof
In this essay we share a musical performance ethnography, titled Under One Roof, as an example of one approach to critical arts-based research. The piece stems from commissioned research that took the form of an ethnography of an urban-supported housing scheme for people over 50 years of age. We discuss some tensions of conducting radical democratic performative work within a political climate characterized by the commodification of knowledge and…
Everyone Knows Me as the Weird Kid: Being Bisexual, Genderfluid, and Fifteen
Everyone Knows Me as the Weird Kid is a performance text created from collaborative narrative interviews between the first author and a 15-year-old participant named Max who identifies as bisexual and genderfluid. The performance explores how Max negotiates a range of challenges-including homophobia, transphobia, bullying, and harassment-on a day-to-day basis. It offers evocative insights into life as a young person with an intersecting identity …
What Can a Song Bring? Balancing Out the Picture in Pandemic
How might we personally and collectively contain the burnout and emotional depletion that has arisen as a consequence of COVID-19? For some, the pandemic has been a further stressor on top of pre-existing trauma. Under these circumstances, how can we continue our work of intervening into the challenges and demands that face our communities? Here, I turn to a song – called It’s Alright – written and sung not only as a response, but also as a survi…
Evoking Embodied Presence: These Things , Songwriting, Filmmaking, and Borrowing a Performative Trick From Bob Dylan
Our performative contribution to the 2019 Special Interest Group in autoethnography provided an opportunity to consider the materiality of absence and presence. Using the film These Things and the research-inspired song that underpins the film, we explore how a 5-min multimedia performative act opened possibilities for solidarity and resistance, offering ways to include the absent other
Much Louder Than I Am: A Musical Collaborative Autoethnography
One challenge of performative research is that a performance is a one-time unique event. It cannot be preserved or returned to in its own form. Here, we offer a more durable artifact to preserve some aspects of the collaborative performance autoethnography we performed at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) in 2018. We write to communicate not only what we performed during the session but also our sentiments concerning singin…
There is a Chance: Songwriting for Hope as Critical Qualitative Research
How to sustain hope amidst loss during repressive times? It may not be enough to voice the words “there is a chance”. But can the act of writing a song, of singing that song, of making a noise, constitute a commitment towards ensuring that there is a chance
Mathew and Me: A Musical Performance Autoethnography Exploring Same-Sex Attraction in Sport
Mathew and Me is a musical performance autoethnography that explores embodied experiences of same-sex attraction between men within heteronormative sport cultures. The performance comprises a layering of original songs, performance poetry, and personal narrative. Songwriting is used as a critical arts-based methodology to discover, interrogate, and communicate fragmentary, sensory, and embodied remembrances of lived experience. Alongside a textua…
Community of I
Perhaps autoethnography is not about the self at all; perhaps it is instead about a wilful embodiment of “we.”’1Alone, despair seems inevitable, paralyzing. Together, we might be able to keep Our bearings toward social justice.2* * *[“The Tree Song,”3 sung to a finger-picked acoustic guitar]Come on in and listen to meBathing in wisdom, a mighty treeShoulders so wide you can lean uponIf you’re looking for answersI’m the oneRead the book and I’ve s…
Cowboys and Pirates in Mental Health Care: A Musical Autoethnography
A cowboy can be defined as 'an unscrupulous tradesman' and a pirate can be 'a person or organization broadcasting without official authorisation.' Looking through a subversive lens, I see both cowboys and pirates operating within the mental health care professions. Cowboys can be validated, authorized, rewarded, and empowered through the machinery of evidence-based medicine. Pirates may be criticized, restricted, marginalized, or dismissed by the…
Seven Days in Lockdown: A Performance Autoethnography of Physical Activity and Mental Health
COVID-19 increased anxiety levels worldwide. Significant mental health consequences are becoming evident across society, from children to seniors. The pandemic left millions of people out of work or unable to work. It simultaneously increased stress levels for many who remained in work. It made day-to-day life worse-much worse-for a lot of people. I was not immune to these difficulties. Yet, paradoxically, I found that lockdown also offered circu…
Where Spirit Meets Bone: A Meditation on Embodied Qualitative Inquiry
This performance autoethnography explores the ways that song writing and yoga, as forms of embodied practice, might inform the methodologies of autoethnography and qualitative inquiry. Throughout the piece, I share and reflect on moments in my own song writing and yoga practice which have helped me develop as a qualitative researcher
Norman Denzin and America
A personal appreciation of the life and work of Norman Denzin
Sociology (26 works) · Psychology (22 works) · Art (21 works) · Aesthetics (20 works) · Autoethnography (13 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Literature (10 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (10 works) · Visual arts (10 works)