%0 Journal Article
%T Dancing the Strata: Investigating Affective Flows of Moving/Dancing Bodies in the Exploration of Bodily (Un)Becoming
%A Tamara Borovica
%J Qualitative Inquiry
%@ 1552-7565
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1077800417745919
%X This article draws on recent sociological work that explores the intangible, sensory, and affective dimensions of social life. In particular, I look at elusive, sensory, and affective elements of young women¡¯s bodily becoming, through feminist lens. My intention behind this is to problematize narrow understandings of (women¡¯s) embodiment in social sciences. I explore the stratification of bodies (through sex, gender, class, and race) and the way in which stratification works on bodies, what it produces, and how it limits and/or enforces bodily potentials. To this end, I follow affective flows between young women¡¯s dancing bodies as they participate in a performance ethnography I have conducted to explore embodiment. To work with partial, dynamic, multisensory data, and to explore the potentiality of what bodies sense, feel, and do, I use a poetic analysis of the participants¡¯ dance encounters
%K womanhood
%K embodiment
%K becoming
%K stratification
%K affect
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077800417745919