ABSTRACT

We present this chapter as an affective sketch, playing with that phrase in two ways: First, we employ drawn sketches to visually display how our data moved us throughout our analysis. Second, we recall improvisational sketches, associated with comedic acting, especially how those sketches could be played, and re-played, differently each time, with new actors, new props, new settings. We briefly bring the theoretical history that influenced our thinking-feeling to the fore before honing further in how the experience of sketching adjusted our analytic approach. This chapter, then, is about method, not in the doing of it, but in the feeling of it.