Health geography and the 'performative' turn : making space for the audio-visual in ethnographic health research

Kaley, Alex and Hatton, Chris and Milligan, Christine (2019) Health geography and the 'performative' turn : making space for the audio-visual in ethnographic health research. Health and Place, 60: 102210. ISSN 1353-8292

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to critically reflect on the added value of video in ethnographic research that seeks to understand peoples' lived experiences of health and place. Of particular interest is the potential for video to elicit the embodied, multisensory and relational nature of people's place experiences that are the focus of much recent health geography research. We draw on our experiences of using video in an ethnographic study that sought to explore the experiences of people with intellectual disabilities engaged in nature based (or 'green care') therapeutic interventions for health and wellbeing. We argue that video has the potential to capture aspects of people's wellbeing experiences that may be lost using other methods, such as observational field noting. Consideration is also given to how researchers using video methods should seek to (re)present people's wellbeing experiences, as well as the practical and ethical challenges that this approach has for those working in the field of health geography.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Journal or Publication Title:

Health and Place

Additional Information:

This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Health and Place. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Health and Place, 60, 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.102210

Uncontrolled Keywords:

/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3306

Subjects:

?? health(social science)public health, environmental and occupational healthgeography, planning and development ??

Departments:

Faculty of Health and Medicine > Health Research

ID Code:

136717

Deposited By:

ep_importer_pure

Deposited On:

22 Oct 2019 10:00

Refereed?:

Yes

Published?:

Published

Last Modified:

31 Dec 2023 01:07

URI:

https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/136717