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Acts of Representation: A Labour of Love

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Exploring the relationships between performing and representing performing on the page has been and remains a labour of love for me (Barbour, 2011a, 2012a). This labour of love has led me to explore, articulate – and sometimes contribute to – emerging methods in qualitative, feminist, autoethnographic and performance research.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    I note that my seven acts of representation in this chapter are not intended to correspond to Shakespeare’s seven stages as described in As you like it, Act II, Scene VII, 139–143.

  2. 2.

    Given the focus of this chapter on methods of representation, I have not engaged in discussion of literature around common experiences of new mothers such as sleeplessness and negotiating major changes in everyday priorities. However, such a discussion would be relevant as an expression of ‘the personal as political’ and could be the subject of interesting autoethnographic writing.

  3. 3.

    For a range of examples see: Barbour, 2011a, 2011c, 2012a; Bagley & Cancienne, 2011; East, 2012; Fraleigh, 2004; Gannon, 2005; Goodridge, 2011; Juslin, 2011; Jutel, 2006; Kolcio & Gerdes, 2009; Longley & Tate, 2012; Madison, 2007; Markula & Denison, 2000; Pollock, 2007; Spry, 2001, 2006, 2011; Synder-Young, 2011; and chapters in this volume.

  4. 4.

    Full discussion of issues relating the representation of dance through moving images and the development of creative forms of digital/video/film dance is beyond the focus of this chapter. Refer to Barbour (2011e, 2012b) for discussion of some relevant issues.

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Barbour, K.N. (2014). Acts of Representation: A Labour of Love. In: Rinehart, R., Barbour, K., Pope, C. (eds) Ethnographic Worldviews. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6916-8_13

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