Drawing your way into ethnographic research: comics and drawing as arts-based methodology. Issue 4 (4th July 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Forde, Shawn D.
• Is Part Of: Qualitative research in sport, exercise & health. Volume 14:Issue 4(2022)
• Page Start: 648
• Page End: 667
• Publication Date: 2022-07-04
• Subjects: Arts-based research -- drawing -- comics -- visual ethnography -- arts-based methodology; Sports sciences -- Research -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Exercise -- Research -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Health -- Research -- Methodology -- Periodicals; 613.71
• DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2021.1974929
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2159-676X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article outlines an attempt to use drawing and comics as an arts-based research methodology during an ethnographic project relating to sport and social change in South Africa. The use of drawing within fieldnotes has a long history, and more recently the use of comics as a form of research and dissemination has received increased attention. The purpose of this article is to introduce the potential that drawing and comic making provide as unique arts-based methodologies within ethnographic research. Through examples of comic vignettes, comic panels, and drawings, I illustrate how drawing(s) operated as a site of departure and arrival. My drawings and comics began to trace the entanglements that inevitably develop through ethnographic research. As I started to trace the lines of myself and community members moving and playing within soccer spaces, I was drawn into dialogue and relationship with people, places, and histories.