On the Method of Touch in Qualitative Inquiry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6164466 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Van Manen (0000-0001-6070-0314, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10778004251393194 |
| OpenAlex | W7105892507 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
Touch is the most intimate of the senses. Through it, we find contact, feel, caress, affect, pressure, and convergence. And as has been written, touch is a double gesture whereby in touching we may be touched. Touch may also occur in its physical absence to reveal a sensuality beyond what we feel for. We may experience touch through our eyes, ears, mouth, and nose even. In this way, we may consider touch as a sensibility, a sensuality of sense. And yet, for qualitative inquiry, we do not necessarily talk about touch methodologically. What happens when the aim of research is shifted to touch and being touched? If textuality is oriented toward the convergence of feeling rather than the precision of definition, clarification, or explication? In this manuscript, I explore moments of methodical touch, and how we may specifically understand touch as constitutive of a phenomenological research approach
Empathy · Feeling · Gesture · Ideal (ethics · Indexicality · Perspective (graphical · Phenomenology (philosophy · Qualitative research · Textuality · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |