Kip Jones, a pioneer
in Performative Social Science at Bournemouth University (BU), has two
substantial book Chapters now available in texts published by Wiley-Blackwell
and Palgrave Macmillan. Both texts
move the practice of arts-led research forward substantially and will become
valued resources for students and researchers for years to come.
The first Chapter, “Performative Social Science”,
in J. P.
Matthes, C. S. Davis, & R. F. Potter (Eds.), The International
Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods, rehearses the development of Performative Social Science (PSS) as a
research approach and method, developed over ten years at Bournemouth
University through publication, film, research, workshops, Masterclasses, and
PhD studies. Jones explains that PSS is not simply ‘art for art’s sake’ instead
of research. PSS is research and dissemination practices based in the
philosophy of Relational Aesthetics and has much in common with Social
Constructionism. The ‘audience’ or reader/viewer are key to PSS, as is the
wider community.
This 3-volume Encyclopedia is
touted as the most current authoritative single-source reference on communication
methods. The editors state that they have invited the best scholars from all
over the world to accomplish this. Jones’ Chapter (draft) is now available at: https://www.academia.edu/22126458/Performative_Social_Science
The second Chapter, “Emotivity and Ephemera Research”, in Innovative Research Methodologies in Management: Volume I, edited by L. Moutinho and M. Sokelem provides an in-depth worked example of PSS. The Chapter reports on a two-day experimental workshop in arts-led interviewing technique using ephemera to illicit life stories and then reporting narrative accounts back using creative means of presentation. The workshop took place at Bournemouth and participants were all University faculty members. A key to the process was in replicating what research participants may be feeling and going through when they share very personal stories with researchers. The exercise built a respect for this process by acknowledging that fact through the personal experiences and emotive connectivity of workshop participants.
The Editors of this
book on management were keen to include the Chapter, stating that many who are attempting a PhD, particularly using a
qualitative approach, spend little or no effort in finding, then learning, an
appropriate method for their research question. The felt that the Chapter would
contribute substantially in this way to management studies. The Chapter was
originally published as “A report
on an arts-led, emotive experiment in interviewing and storytelling”
in The
Qualitative Report, 20(2), 86-92 and is available here: https://www.academia.edu/10835482/A_Report_on_an_Arts-Led_Emotive_Experiment_in_Interviewing_and_Storytelling
It is examples like these that
substantiate the work being done not only by Jones, but by other members of the
Centre for Qualitative Research (CQR) at Bournemouth University. Membership of
CQR comes from across Health and Social Sciences’ disciplines at BU as well as
from a number of other BU faculties, This attraction attests to the universal
appeal of qualitative methods and particularly arts-led ones, including
Performative Social Science, which are being developed through CQR.
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