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- Title
Taking Live Methods slowly: inhabiting the social world through dwelling, doodling and describing.
- Authors
Quinn, Katherine
- Abstract
This article contributes to literatures on sociological live methods by advocating for 'playing' with the concept of slow methods. Slow methods include a reflexive disposition towards the unfolding of social life in ordinary spaces (dwelling), the use of drawing as an embodied tool for understanding this unfolding (doodling) and the combination of these approaches into writing which deliberately seeks to evoke the liveness of the social world (describing). It draws on an ethnography of a joint-use public-academic library and several scenes selected from its fieldwork. I make three arguments: first, I argue for analogue methods to compliment digitally focussed live methods. Second, I explore the value of slow methods for being drawn into a scene and drawn to see its micro-happenings, particularly in spaces where the social world unfolds in mundane and uneven ways. Third, I argue the approach allows 'shy researchers' to engage attentively and reflexively in the field.
- Subjects
LIFESTYLES; BASHFULNESS; CREATIVE ability; DRAWING; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; ETHNOLOGY research; PUBLIC spaces; SOCIAL skills
- Publication
Qualitative Research, 2023, Vol 23, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
1468-7941
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/14687941211012222