Batta, Aanka and Boncori, Ilaria (2024) Being, becoming and knowing through poetry. In: How to do Social Science that Matters. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 88-100. ISBN 9781035314539. Official URL: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035314546.00015
Batta, Aanka and Boncori, Ilaria (2024) Being, becoming and knowing through poetry. In: How to do Social Science that Matters. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 88-100. ISBN 9781035314539. Official URL: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035314546.00015
Batta, Aanka and Boncori, Ilaria (2024) Being, becoming and knowing through poetry. In: How to do Social Science that Matters. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 88-100. ISBN 9781035314539. Official URL: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035314546.00015
Abstract
This chapter stems from our experience and reflections of drawing on poetry as academics and in our personal lives. We explain why and how we have come to engage with poetry as a form of knowing, expressing ourselves and being within and outside of academia. We explore the potential of poetry to centre marginalised voices, to speak up against otherness and (dis)alienation, and to resist the normalised silencing of those who are identified as strangers against the backdrop of the privileged majority. In this chapter, we also highlight the differences between ‘academic’ and ‘street’ poetry, considering the uses and usefulness of the latter as a form of academic narrative arts-based method to democratise research. Poetry free from artificial stylistic imposition can be effective as an instrument to communicate to a variety of audiences, and to resist the limitation of masculine and hegemonic ways of understanding academic expression. As such, poetry is also experienced and advocated as a powerful political project, and as a form of inclusive organising that values embodiment and affect as central and unifying human experiences. This is particularly relevant in academic contexts and fields premised on disembodied, quantifying and ‘logical’ understandings of being and working in academia. To illustrate this, the chapter includes personal reflective narratives and poetry alongside more traditional academic text.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Poetry; Arts-based methods; Inclusivity; Street poetry; Writing differently |
Subjects: | Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZX OA Fund (books and chapters) |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Essex Business School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 29 Jul 2024 08:43 |
Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2024 19:44 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/38859 |
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