Embodied Apprehensions: Jokering and Brokering Physical Engagement
Location
1047
Format Type
Event
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
January 2018
End Date
January 2018
Abstract
Like the qualitative researcher, jokers (using Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed to facilitate dialogue) help participants discover, understand and seek resolutions to problems. However, the idea of the joker is only a facilitator is misleading. Instead, the co-constructive nature involved jokering expands the research borders to a community effort of meaning making and therefore assuming the role of joker involves negotiating (brokering) ourselves and others in the roles of spectator, actor, and spectactor. This session provides embodied reflections, images we reconstruct, that illustrate some of the apprehensions we have encountered when jokering physical engagement. It raises questions about ethical leadership in a space of vulnerability and uncertainty. This session is congruent with the theme of the conference, which focuses on phenomenology, in that we offer a creative approach to sharing data on our lived experience with the practice of jokering and reflections as thoughts and images we narrative verbally and physically. This session offers a unique opportunity to see, hear, touch and reconstruct data.
Embodied Apprehensions: Jokering and Brokering Physical Engagement
1047
Like the qualitative researcher, jokers (using Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed to facilitate dialogue) help participants discover, understand and seek resolutions to problems. However, the idea of the joker is only a facilitator is misleading. Instead, the co-constructive nature involved jokering expands the research borders to a community effort of meaning making and therefore assuming the role of joker involves negotiating (brokering) ourselves and others in the roles of spectator, actor, and spectactor. This session provides embodied reflections, images we reconstruct, that illustrate some of the apprehensions we have encountered when jokering physical engagement. It raises questions about ethical leadership in a space of vulnerability and uncertainty. This session is congruent with the theme of the conference, which focuses on phenomenology, in that we offer a creative approach to sharing data on our lived experience with the practice of jokering and reflections as thoughts and images we narrative verbally and physically. This session offers a unique opportunity to see, hear, touch and reconstruct data.
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Breakout Session G