corporeography

English

Etymology

Coined by anthropologist Vicki Kirby in 1989, from corporeo- +‎ -graphy.

Noun

corporeography (plural corporeographies)

1. An approach to research in which the researcher's bodily and emotional experiences are foregrounded.
   • 1989, Vicki Kirby, “Corporeographies”, in Inscriptions‎, number 5:

     I want to argue that the body is that “pre-post-erous space,” the site of a corporeography that conjoins the dynamic political economy of signification–its written surface and writing instrument.

   • 2011, Catherine Robinson, Beside One's Self: Homelessness Felt and Lived‎, Syracuse University Press, page 17:

     As a research strategy, corporeography names a specific dual interest in the bodily and emotional experiences of others and in the knowledge-making capacities of the researching body itself.

   • 2019, Rebecca Coleman et al., “Feminist New Materialist Practice: The Mattering of Methods”, in MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture‎, number 4:

     In attuning to the errors of air quality index on Sina Weibo, this piece suggests a rethinking of the method of following not simply as a response to a call, but as simultaneously responding and calling. Such a method makes visible the corporeography of the research assemblage that affords a reconceptualisation of anthropocentrism.