Embodying Critical and Corporeal Methodology: Digital Storytelling With Young Women in Eating Disorder Recovery

Authors

  • Andrea LaMarre University of Guelph
  • Carla Rice University of Guelph

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-17.2.2474

Keywords:

critical arts-based methods, eating disorders, curriculum, qualitative research, embodiment, digital storytelling, recovery, corporeality

Abstract

Digital storytelling is as an arts-based research method that offers researchers an opportunity to engage deeply with participants, speak back to dominant discourses, and re-imagine bodily possibilities. In this article, we describe the process of developing a research-based digital storytelling curriculum exploring eating disorder recovery. We have built this curriculum around research interviews with young women in recovery as well as research and popular literature on eating disorder recovery. Here, we highlight how the curriculum acted as a scaffolding device for the participants' artistic creation around their lived experiences of recovery. The participants' stories crystallize what resonated for them in the workshop process: they each have an open-ended narrative arc, emphasize the intercorporeality of recovery, and focus on recovery as process. The nuances within each story reveal unique embodied experiences that contextualize their recoveries. Using the example of eating disorder recovery, we offer an illustration of the possibilities of digital storytelling as a critical arts-based research method and what we gain from doing research differently in terms of participant-researcher relationships and the value of the arts in disrupting dominant discourses.

URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs160278

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Author Biographies

Andrea LaMarre, University of Guelph

Andrea LaMARRE, MSc. is a PhD candidate and Vanier Doctoral Scholar in the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Carla Rice, University of Guelph

Dr. Carla RICE is Canada Research Chair in Care, Gender, and Relationships (Tier II) and professor in the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

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Published

2016-03-30

How to Cite

LaMarre, A., & Rice, C. (2016). Embodying Critical and Corporeal Methodology: Digital Storytelling With Young Women in Eating Disorder Recovery. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 17(2). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-17.2.2474

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 2 (2016)

Section

Single Contributions

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