Chapter 8: Being, becoming and knowing through poetry
This chapter stems from our experience and reflections of drawing on poetry as academics and in our personal lives. We explain why and how we have come to engage with poetry as a form of knowing, expressing ourselves and being within and outside of academia. We explore the potential of poetry to cen...
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| description | This chapter stems from our experience and reflections of drawing on poetry as academics and in our personal lives. We explain why and how we have come to engage with poetry as a form of knowing, expressing ourselves and being within and outside of academia. We explore the potential of poetry to centre marginalised voices, to speak up against otherness and (dis)alienation, and to resist the normalised silencing of those who are identified as strangers against the backdrop of the privileged majority. In this chapter, we also highlight the differences between ‘academic’ and ‘street’ poetry, considering the uses and usefulness of the latter as a form of academic narrative arts-based method to democratise research. Poetry free from artificial stylistic imposition can be effective as an instrument to communicate to a variety of audiences, and to resist the limitation of masculine and hegemonic ways of understanding academic expression. As such, poetry is also experienced and advocated as a powerful political project, and as a form of inclusive organising that values embodiment and affect as central and unifying human experiences. This is particularly relevant in academic contexts and fields premised on disembodied, quantifying and ‘logical’ understandings of being and working in academia. To illustrate this, the chapter includes personal reflective narratives and poetry alongside more traditional academic text. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1426912024-08-01T10:32:23Z Chapter 8: Being, becoming and knowing through poetry Batta, Aanka Boncori, Ilaria Poetry; Arts-based methods; Inclusivity; Street poetry; Writing differently GPS This chapter stems from our experience and reflections of drawing on poetry as academics and in our personal lives. We explain why and how we have come to engage with poetry as a form of knowing, expressing ourselves and being within and outside of academia. We explore the potential of poetry to centre marginalised voices, to speak up against otherness and (dis)alienation, and to resist the normalised silencing of those who are identified as strangers against the backdrop of the privileged majority. In this chapter, we also highlight the differences between ‘academic’ and ‘street’ poetry, considering the uses and usefulness of the latter as a form of academic narrative arts-based method to democratise research. Poetry free from artificial stylistic imposition can be effective as an instrument to communicate to a variety of audiences, and to resist the limitation of masculine and hegemonic ways of understanding academic expression. As such, poetry is also experienced and advocated as a powerful political project, and as a form of inclusive organising that values embodiment and affect as central and unifying human experiences. This is particularly relevant in academic contexts and fields premised on disembodied, quantifying and ‘logical’ understandings of being and working in academia. To illustrate this, the chapter includes personal reflective narratives and poetry alongside more traditional academic text. Published 2024-08-01T10:32:16Z 2024-08-01T10:32:16Z 2024-07-12 chapter 9781035314546 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/142691 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/how-to-do-social-science-that-matters-9781035314539.html https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9781035314546/book-part-9781035314546-15.xml Edward Elgar Publishing Edward Elgar Publishing 10.4337/9781035314546.00015 10.4337/9781035314546.00015 01ceac28-75b4-492a-8eec-f9b98bc6b28c https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 9781035314546 Edward Elgar Publishing Cheltenham, UK open access |
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