Book Review: Qualitative Studies of Silence: The Unsaid as Social Action
Book Review: Qualitative Studies of Silence: The Unsaid as Social Action
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书评:沉默的定性研究:未说出口的社会行动
DOI:
10.1177/1468794120946984
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发表时间:
2020
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
Jack B. Joyce
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作者:
Jack B. Joyce
Although the author nowhere claims the book to be a representation of arts-based research (ABR), an interesting question can be posed: is this book a piece of ABR? However, there is no straightforward answer, given multiple interpretations of ABR exist with different views on whether the art or research should be the focus of ABR. Nonetheless, the book is a brilliant example of what can be done to academic texts and is reflective of other academic works (e.g. Unflattening by Nick Sousanis (2015)) presenting complex academic concepts in non-academic prose. Works like Pachirat’s and Sousanis’s are making academic scholarship accessible to a wider audience who otherwise would not be concerned with it. This I think is the major contribution of this play. The book is also an important addition to the fiction sub-genre in qualitative research and thus can be used as an exemplar while teaching/practicing fictional strategies by qualitative researchers.