ABSTRACT
The introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book situate and unpack the definition of embodiment by sharing how our perspectives and understandings of embodiment in research which evolves for the developement of an expansive view of its potential contributions and challenges to new qualitative research practices. It makes the reader gets an in-depth view of many theories and methods that move the body to the center or focus of research practices. One can recognize the fields such as Human Geography, Cognition, Biology, and Information Technology have well-established trajectories of research in embodiment, but the discussion or inclusion of these are beyond the scope of this book. It describes perspectives and contexts of embodied research, but focus on the methodologies, methods, and analytic frames taken up to grapple with this aspect of qualitative inquiry and includes a context, both of the theoretical framework and the data drawn on.
