TY - JOUR
T1 - Freeplaying with narrative
T2 - A Jogando method in/as Capoeira research
AU - Cruz, Joshua
AU - Griffith, Lauren
AU - Lawal, Idera
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2021.
PY - 2023/2
Y1 - 2023/2
N2 - In this article, we rethink the ways that analysis within narrative research might occur based on the topic being studied and provide an example using the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira. Locating our work at the intersection of Derridean freeplay and the spirit of play present in the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira, we reconceive of the ways that narratives may be constructed, and suggest that the topic under study, capoeira, may actually become an analytic. This piece offers one of many potential directions for rethinking analysis of narrative data and representing participant experiences and suggests blurring lines between content and method of analysis. While our own analysis occurs using play as it appears in capoeira, we suggest that any number of research topics may be used to inform the ways that we analyze data.
AB - In this article, we rethink the ways that analysis within narrative research might occur based on the topic being studied and provide an example using the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira. Locating our work at the intersection of Derridean freeplay and the spirit of play present in the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira, we reconceive of the ways that narratives may be constructed, and suggest that the topic under study, capoeira, may actually become an analytic. This piece offers one of many potential directions for rethinking analysis of narrative data and representing participant experiences and suggests blurring lines between content and method of analysis. While our own analysis occurs using play as it appears in capoeira, we suggest that any number of research topics may be used to inform the ways that we analyze data.
KW - Derrida
KW - Narrative analysis
KW - capoeira
KW - freeplay
KW - movement
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85111922688&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/14687941211016164
DO - 10.1177/14687941211016164
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85111922688
SN - 1468-7941
VL - 23
SP - 125
EP - 142
JO - Qualitative Research
JF - Qualitative Research
IS - 1
ER -