Inhabitance

While the concepts and imagery presented here are not autobiographical, there is no way to fully detach lived experience from the process of making and theorizing this work. And although its impetus is a lifelong journey of healing, the focus here is transforming the inhabitance of trauma into an awareness of embodied presence. From a space of reflexivity, Inhabitance asks you to come back to your body through heart-minded creative action. This practice-based interdisciplinary methodology integrates the emancipatory powers of women and gender studies, consciousness studies and art. Through this hybrid approach, Inhabitance creates space for reconciling an imposed fracture between the sensory and cognitive aspects of our lives to rewrite the restrictive narrative that trauma can hold over both.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Individual Interdisciplinary PhD

Department dc:contributor.department

Human Development

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2022

Author dc:creator

• Jones, Tacie Nicole

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Weaver, Rachel L.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Reeves, Audrey
• Borowski, Michael
• Labuski, Christine

• binaries
• power
• Gender
• art
• consciousness studies
• feminist theory
• mind body reconciliation
• Gender studies
• heart-minded creative action
• reflexivity
• embodied memory
• embodied presence
• sexual trauma
• research creation
• practice-based research

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:33913

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/108075