Dancing the Strata

Investigating Affective Flows of Moving/Dancing Bodies in the Exploration of Bodily (Un)Becoming

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2386331
AutoresTamara Borovica (0000-0002-7356-9236, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
Ano2019
Volume25
Fascículo1
Páginas26-36
Data de publicação2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800417745919
OpenAlexW2773776971
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas26

This article draws on recent sociological work that explores the intangible, sensory, and affective dimensions of social life. In particular, I look at elusive, sensory, and affective elements of young women's bodily becoming, through feminist lens. My intention behind this is to problematize narrow understandings of (women's) embodiment in social sciences. I explore the stratification of bodies (through sex, gender, class, and race) and the way in which stratification works on bodies, what it produces, and how it limits and/or enforces bodily potentials. To this end, I follow affective flows between young women's dancing bodies as they participate in a performance ethnography I have conducted to explore embodiment. To work with partial, dynamic, multisensory data, and to explore the potentiality of what bodies sense, feel, and do, I use a poetic analysis of the participants' dance encounters

Aesthetics · Art · Dance · Ethnography · Literature · Poetry · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology