135 research outputs found
Researching Intimacy in Families
No full textResearching Intimacy in Families introduces and invigorates understandings of intimacy and family relationships. It offers an incisive engagement with the sociology of intimacy and the methods needed to research families, children and personal life. Using original data the book opens out the theoretical debate on intimacy and illustrates the potential of qualitative mixed-methods in capturing the richness and complexity of family life. Jacqui Gabb brings to life methodology teaching through extensive illustrations of methods in the context of families and childhood research, including innovatory methods and approaches designed and piloted by the author
Longing for Recognition: The Joys, Complexities, and Contradictions of Practicing Dietetics
No full textLonging for Recognition offers a radical new way of understanding nutritional health practices. In contemporary food culture, the work of dietitians has accrued new and urgent meaning, and Longing for Recognition is addressed to that group of practitioners. The author, herself a dietitian, crafts an autoethnographic fiction that presents a critical and thought-provoking argument for a more self-reflexive, relational, and embodied profession. Her compelling narrative draws the reader into its timely call for rethinking what counts as knowledge in dietetic education. Longing for Recognition will be invaluable for dietitians and other health care professionals who wish to enhance their practice as one that considers first and foremost what it means to be human.
[Abstract information retrieved on Nov. 21, 2017 from http://www.ryerson.ca/~jgingras/longingforrecognition.htm]</p
The passion and melancholia of performing dietitian
No full text Dietitians provide nutritional care in various contexts and it is expected that dietetic subjectivity shapes and is shaped by health/nutrition discourse, but this has not been sufficiently explored. The purpose of this study was to further understand dietetic subjectivity, dietitians’ experiences of their education and relationships between educational and practice discourses. Twelve dietitians were recruited to participate in semi-structured research interviews. Feminist theoretical perspectives informed the research including the interpretation of data, which was analyzed according to the Listening Guide, a feminist voice-centered relational method. A theory of dietitian performativity informed by Butler (1999) emerged whereby dietitians expressed passion and melancholia for their practice. Also, participants experienced discontinuity between educational and practice contexts, which highlighted the need to integrate embodied epistemic perspectives throughout undergraduate education. These findings support a critical gesture in dietetic educational discourse away from positivism towards embodiment as a means for highlighting and reinforcing the complexity and fluidity of dietetic performativity. </jats:p
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