ABSTRACT
The field of literacy has been enhanced by a number of key studies of space. These have opened up an understanding of how literacy practices both produce space differently but are produced “by” space. New Literacy Studies have always invited discussions of power. Literacy studies has now begun to acknowledge the importance of affect in shaping the ways in which knowing is constructed and enacted through the body. The research is felt, lived, experienced in complex ways. The concept of embodied literacies is emergent within the field and its emergent quality haunts the writers as they describe the experience of knowing within the field, and living within that knowing. The process of putting pen to paper, in tracing the line of a linguistic ethnography, involves the body. The idea of reflexivity is deeply connected to the relationship between the researcher and the research, and subsequently the ways in which knowledge is rendered visible within textual practices.
