TY - JOUR
T1 - Embodied ethnography in psychology
T2 - Learning points from expatriate migration research
AU - Schliewe, Sanna
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2020.
PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - Interviews and observation are often the preferred methods when psychologists conduct fieldwork. However, psychology can learn from recent developments in anthropology and sociology. Here researchers use their own embodied sensations in participatory research as a way to investigate less verbalized, more hidden, sensorial, and affective aspects of the life-worlds they are studying. In this article, I use case examples from research on privileged migrants (expatriates) to demonstrate how significant insights can emerge when we apply an embodied approach in our research. Migration is not only behavioral, social, verbal, or imaginative events but includes the migrant’s body—its sensory experiences and emotions. Thus, we need to embrace additional methods to investigate multifaceted psychological processes such as migration.
AB - Interviews and observation are often the preferred methods when psychologists conduct fieldwork. However, psychology can learn from recent developments in anthropology and sociology. Here researchers use their own embodied sensations in participatory research as a way to investigate less verbalized, more hidden, sensorial, and affective aspects of the life-worlds they are studying. In this article, I use case examples from research on privileged migrants (expatriates) to demonstrate how significant insights can emerge when we apply an embodied approach in our research. Migration is not only behavioral, social, verbal, or imaginative events but includes the migrant’s body—its sensory experiences and emotions. Thus, we need to embrace additional methods to investigate multifaceted psychological processes such as migration.
KW - Embodiment
KW - expatriates
KW - liminality
KW - phenomenology
KW - psychological ethnography
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85077521596&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1354067X19898677
DO - 10.1177/1354067X19898677
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85077521596
SN - 1354-067X
VL - 26
SP - 803
EP - 818
JO - Culture and Psychology
JF - Culture and Psychology
IS - 4
ER -