Bodies and things are not as separate as we were once taught, and their intra-relationship is vital to how we come to know ourselves as humans and how we learn and know our environments, our place-worlds .

bell hooks (1994) conceives of pedagogy as a ‘union of the mind, body and spirit, not just for striving for knowledge in books, but knowledge about how to live in the world’ (15) and using this conception, the practice and theories of teaching and learning can then be understood as an entanglement of the body with the world (social and material) to learn from but that also teaches. So, the body-bodies are complex intra-actions (Barad, 2007) of the social and affective, where embodiment is a process of intra-actions with other bodies and the body/ies and these practices of embodiment are core to our ways of knowing, learning and being.

This Special Issue of Humanities on research and research processes that are embodied, affective and relational to explore complex materialities of bodies. These contributions might explore this topic through a focus on methodology, theoretical framework/s, or political positioning- such as bodies immersed in social relations of power. This special issue aims to examine how we are always with-in bodies and how research assemblages work the entanglements of bodies with-in matter, bodies with-in theory, bodies with-in practice, bodies with-in research, and bodies with-in other bodies to develop the new, disrupt the current and bring together knowledges and understandings of embodiment across disciplines and place-worlds.

This Special Issue of Humanities openly encourages and supports submissions that entangle practice with research, theory with practice, bodies with-in methods and ultimately works the spaces between disciplines. This special issue seeks to enable a place that enriches, extends, and disrupts the ways we do, make, think about, and talk about research with-in bodies and so submissions that work the spaces between traditional forms of scholarship and research outputs ie. text-based articles and the archival, documentary, oral, material, visual, or material are encouraged.

Page, T. (Eds.) (2023). With–In Bodies: Research Assemblages of the Sensory and the Embodied. Humanities, 12-13(1-6) Special Issue. https://doi.org/10.17613/8fe0e-kk538