{"title":"Drawing your way into ethnographic research: comics and drawing as arts-based methodology","authors":"Shawn D. Forde","doi":"10.1080/2159676X.2021.1974929","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":48542,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2021.1974929","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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.