Remember Your Body
Remember Your Body
Eline Kieft
Remember Your Body is a podcast that helps researchers to understand the body as a source of knowledge and how it can help them in their research.   Series One of the podcast is presented by Eline Kieft, a medical anthropologist, who combines her passion for anthropology and its qualitative research methodologies, with her experience as a dancer and movement facilitator. In a series of accessible interviews to support researchers to be both productive and healthy, Eline talks to academics who pioneer the body as a research tool in anthropology. The podcast is produced as part of the NCRM-funded research project, Research with a twist: A somatics toolkit for ethnographers. Eline is supported by former BBC journalist now podcast producer and trainer, Christine Garrington.
S01 Episode 05: Johannes Birringer on cross overs between body, performance, technology and underground spaces
Johannes Birringer, Professor of Performance Technologies at Brunel University, talks to Eline Kieft about his journey into combining dance and performance with technologies
Nov 1, 2019
35 min
S02 Episode 07: Juhani Pallasmaa on experiencing architecture through art and sensing, the mind-body continuum and architecture as a gift
Jun 2, 2019
27 min
S02 Episode 6: Peter Merriman on mobility studies and the social, cultural and political dimensions of everyday movement
In Episode 6 of Series 2, leading mobility studies expert Professor Peter Merriman, from Aberystwyth University, talks about the development of the discipline as a field of study in the social sciences, why taking an interdisciplinary approach is important to him and his drive to understand the social, cultural and political dimensions of everyday movement and their impact on national identity and nationalism.
May 15, 2019
25 min
S02 Episode 4: Arawana Hayashi on social presencing, improvisation and paying attention to each other in organizational settings, and connecting body and mind for a more awareness-based society
Arawana Hayashi on using arts, meditation and social justice in organisational settings and encouraging change through a move towards compassion- and awareness-based systems.
Apr 11, 2019
27 min
S01 Episode 04: Tim Ingold on The crisis of ethnography, the problem with embodiment, human becomings and exploding cellos
Tim Ingold, Professor of Social Anthropology at University of Aberdeen, talks to Ben Spatz about the difference between anthropology and ethnography, the importance of collaboration, skilled practice and playing the cello, why he finds the idea of the body problematic, and why he thinks of people as human becomings rather than beings.
Mar 25, 2019
27 min
S02 Episode 03: Brian Massumi and Erin Manning on the economic challenge to collectively reorganize how we value money
In Part 2 of our interview with Erin Manning and Brian Massumi we talk about the emerging 3 Ecologies Process Seed Bank, and how post-Blockchain technologies could reverse today’s economic balance, to collectively emphasize our qualities of experience, making monetary aspects peripheral to our everyday lives
Mar 13, 2019
21 min
S02 Episode 2: Erin Manning and Brian Massumi on critical somatic individualisation and why we need more movement in university education and architecture
Erin Manning and Brian Massumi talk to Doerte Weig about schizo-somatic workshops at the Senselab, and how new ways of thinking and moving with relational openness and group subjectivity would benefit teaching and learning in universities of the future
Mar 4, 2019
26 min
S02 Episode 1: Gil Hedley on integral human anatomy, fascia and the link between body fat and consumer culture
In Episode 1 of Series 2 Gil Hedley talks to Doerte Weig about how discovering our inner bodies allows us to experience our bodies as continuous, to accept muscles as scientific mental creations, to understand how our connective tissues fascia enables movement, and how with appreciation for our bodies we can even come to love our fat.
Feb 15, 2019
26 min
S01 Episode 03: Jonathan Skinner on Concerns regarding the body in fieldwork, analysis and writing
Dr Jonathan Skinner from Roehampton University talks to Eline Kieft about how dance has become integral to his research and teaching.
Dec 4, 2018
27 min
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