The Body and Paradox
We live between the juxtaposition of gravity and levity. Gravity roots us to the earth, we take flight in levity. What roots us to difficulty and vulnerability also opens us up to beauty and wonder. Strength and fragility go hand in hand, foot to foot. Th
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Embodied Inquiry Writing, Living and Being through the Body
Celeste Snowber Simon Fraser University, Canada
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ISBN: 978-94-6300-753-5 (paperback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-754-2 (hardback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-755-9 (e-book)
Published by: Sense Publishers, P.O. Box 21858, 3001 AW Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://www.sensepublishers.com/
All chapters in this book have undergone peer review.
Cover image: Parpallo IV, by Mary Blaze (http://blazeworksstudio.com/)
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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR EMBODIED INQUIRY
“Embodied Inquiry: Writing, Living and Being through the Body by Celeste Snowber is a beautiful, creative and highly original book. Snowber invites readers to understand their bodies as a place of knowing – a place in which to center inquiry. Written with passion and wisdom, this book makes significant contributions to arts-based research, artistic research practice, embodiment, and living artful, intentional and connected lives. A stunning achievement.” – Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., author of Method Meets Art and editor of the Social Fictions series “In Embodied Inquiry: Writing, Living and Being through the Body Celeste Snowber offers wisdom for learning to live exotically, erotically, emotionally, and ecstatically. Celeste understands the connections between the sacred, the sensual, the spiritual, and the somatic. She knows how the heart is anchored in the earth, how humour and hope dance a tango, how humanity is hungry for the arts. With an indefatigable spirit Celeste calls us to honour both the known and the unknown as eminently and immanently mysterious. She reminds us to pay attention, to savour each moment, to dance with the body’s insatiable pleasure in being alive. Celeste’s research seeks to reclaim what we know intimately and intuitively as children. In her writing and living Celeste performs a clarion call to linger artfully in the world with more questioning wonder, more elemental attention, more creative consciousness, and more transformative imagination. Reading Embodied Inquiry is like walking on a wilderness trail, in sunlight-infused rain, learning to embrace the possibilities of vitality and vulnerability, joy and grief, love and loss. In lyrical ruminations and poetry, Celeste dances with the body of language so we can learn to dance with the language of the body.” – Carl Leggo, Ph.D., poet & professor, University of British Columbia “In Embodied Inquiry Snowber like a benevolent Siren calls the reader to join her on a beautiful sensuous paradoxical journey into
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