Resilient Bodies: Exploring Racialized Newcomer Women’s Experiences of Embodiment

Green, Amy Rose

Resilient Bodies: Exploring Racialized Newcomer Women’s Experiences of Embodiment

dc.contributor.advisor	Kassan, Anusha
dc.contributor.author	Green, Amy Rose
dc.contributor.committeemember	Goopy, Suzanne E.
dc.contributor.committeemember	Russell-Mayhew, Shelly K.
dc.date	2020-11
dc.date.accessioned	2020-06-01T16:53:24Z
dc.date.available	2020-06-01T16:53:24Z
dc.date.issued	2020-05-01
dc.description.abstract	In recent years, several scholars have called for the construct of embodiment – that is, the experience of engagement of one’s body in the world – as a meaningful way to explore how women experience their bodies. However, limited research has explored embodiment specifically among newcomer women (i.e., immigrants, refugees, and non-permanent residents) who are part of racialized groups (i.e., those identifying as persons of colour or as being part of visible minority groups) in Canada. As such, this dissertation represents a purposeful attempt to explore embodiment among racialized newcomer women, and how to investigate this topic in culturally-sensitive and meaningful ways. Through a feminist lens, and situated in the field of counselling psychology, this body of work integrates different research practices (including a critical review, arts-based engagement ethnography [ABEE], and critical reflection) to systematically contribute to the academic literature focusing on embodiment among racialized newcomer women. Consisting of three conceptually linked manuscripts, which use the Developmental Theory of Embodiment (DTE) as a guiding framework to conceptualize embodiment, this dissertation makes the following contributions to research and practice. First, Manuscript 1 demonstrates how the construct of embodiment offers a meaningful vantage point from which to conduct qualitative research with newcomer women, offering suggestions for working through some of the ethical, methodological, and cultural considerations that may arise in doing so. Manuscript 2 outlines the results from a feminist research study that used ABEE to explore the experience of embodiment among six racialized newcomer women in Canada. Finally, Manuscript 3 offers a critical reflection of the use of ABEE in the aforementioned study, offering suggestions for its utility as an embodied, culturally-sensitive, and reflexive approach. Taken together, findings from this body of work strengthen the embodiment field by demonstrating that there are several unique aspects of being a racialized newcomer woman that can influence embodiment; therefore, these factors should be taken into consideration from a conceptual and methodological standpoint in future research, clinical practice, and social justice initiatives.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Green, A. R. (2020). Resilient Bodies: Exploring Racialized Newcomer Women’s Experiences of Embodiment (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/37887
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/112136
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher.faculty	Werklund School of Education	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en
dc.rights	University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.	en_US
dc.subject	newcomer women	en_US
dc.subject	embodiment	en_US
dc.subject	arts-based engagement ethnography	en_US
dc.subject	feminist research	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Educational Psychology	en_US
dc.title	Resilient Bodies: Exploring Racialized Newcomer Women’s Experiences of Embodiment	en_US
dc.type	doctoral thesis	en_US
thesis.degree.discipline	Education Graduate Program – Educational Psychology	en_US
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary	en_US
thesis.degree.name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)	en_US
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