Collaborative Writing as Inquiry

"Collaborative Writing as Inquiry is a new and overdue contribution to the recently burgeoning literature on writing as a branch of qualitative inquiry. The book places a diversity of approaches to collaborative writing alongside each other, and explores these methods and the spaces between them as critical arts-based inquiry practices within the social sciences. It is not intended or written as any kind of a handbook, more of a scrapbook, containing summative and rich prologues to each section, and substantive chapters (some adapted from work previously published in international peer-reviewed journals), fragments and snippets of 'writing in progress', as well as more extensive excursions into a range of approaches to writing collaboratively, including: collective biography; call and response (to people, to landscapes and to 'what happens' in the writing spaces); 'take three words'; poetic writing; and writing in scholarly communities and/or on retreat. This book illuminates, investigates and interrogates these emergent spaces, particularly as a critical gesture towards the individualised, market-driven agendas and neo-liberal practices of the contemporary academy"--Provided by publisher TABLE OF CONTENTS 6 INTRODUCTION 10 PART I 18 CHAPTER ONE 19 CHAPTER TWO 22 CHAPTER THREE 32 CHAPTER FOUR 43 PART II 50 CHAPTER FIVE 51 CHAPTER SIX 53 CHAPTER SEVEN 61 CHAPTER EIGHT 75 PART III 88 CHAPTER NINE 89 CHAPTER TEN 91 CHAPTER ELEVEN 105 CHAPTER TWELVE 114 PART IV 128 CHAPTER THIRTEEN 129 CHAPTER FOURTEEN 132 CHAPTER FIFTEEN 156 CHAPTER SIXTEEN 172 PART V 184 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN 185 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 189 CHAPTER NINETEEN 198 CHAPTER TWENTY 216 PART VI 234 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE 235 CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO 237 CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE 257 EPILOGUE 278 CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR 279 REFERENCES 285 INDEX 301