“Sewing Is Part of Our Tradition”: A Case Study of Sewing as a Strategy for Arts-Based Inquiry in Health Research With Inuit Women
In this article, we present a case study of sewing as a strategy for arts-based inquiry in health research, situated within a broader project that highlighted Nunavut Inuit women’s childbirth experiences. Five focus groups were hosted as sewing sessions with pregnant women ( N = 19) in Iqaluit, Nuna...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/10497323211042869 2024-09-30T14:37:41+00:00 “Sewing Is Part of Our Tradition”: A Case Study of Sewing as a Strategy for Arts-Based Inquiry in Health Research With Inuit Women Brubacher, Laura Jane Dewey, Cate E. Tatty, Naomi Healey Akearok, Gwen K. Cunsolo, Ashlee Humphries, Sally Harper, Sherilee L. Northern Scientific Training Program 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10497323211042869 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/10497323211042869 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/10497323211042869 en eng SAGE Publications https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Qualitative Health Research volume 31, issue 14, page 2602-2616 ISSN 1049-7323 1552-7557 journal-article 2021 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323211042869 2024-09-10T04:24:58Z In this article, we present a case study of sewing as a strategy for arts-based inquiry in health research, situated within a broader project that highlighted Nunavut Inuit women’s childbirth experiences. Five focus groups were hosted as sewing sessions with pregnant women ( N = 19) in Iqaluit, Nunavut (2017–2018). Women’s reflections on the sessions, and the significance of sewing to Inuit, were integrated with researchers’ critical reflections to examine the value of sewing as a strategy for arts-based inquiry within a focus group method: results related to the flexibility of the sessions; how collective sewing created space for voicing, sharing, and relating; sewing as a tactile and place-specific practice tied to Inuit knowledge and tradition; and lessons learned. Our results underscore the possibilities of arts-based approaches, such as sewing, to enhance data gathering within a focus group method and to contribute to more locally appropriate, place-based methods for Indigenous health research. Article in Journal/Newspaper inuit Iqaluit Nunavut SAGE Publications Nunavut Qualitative Health Research 104973232110428 |
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In this article, we present a case study of sewing as a strategy for arts-based inquiry in health research, situated within a broader project that highlighted Nunavut Inuit women’s childbirth experiences. Five focus groups were hosted as sewing sessions with pregnant women ( N = 19) in Iqaluit, Nunavut (2017–2018). Women’s reflections on the sessions, and the significance of sewing to Inuit, were integrated with researchers’ critical reflections to examine the value of sewing as a strategy for arts-based inquiry within a focus group method: results related to the flexibility of the sessions; how collective sewing created space for voicing, sharing, and relating; sewing as a tactile and place-specific practice tied to Inuit knowledge and tradition; and lessons learned. Our results underscore the possibilities of arts-based approaches, such as sewing, to enhance data gathering within a focus group method and to contribute to more locally appropriate, place-based methods for Indigenous health research. |
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Brubacher, Laura Jane Dewey, Cate E. Tatty, Naomi Healey Akearok, Gwen K. Cunsolo, Ashlee Humphries, Sally Harper, Sherilee L. “Sewing Is Part of Our Tradition”: A Case Study of Sewing as a Strategy for Arts-Based Inquiry in Health Research With Inuit Women |
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“Sewing Is Part of Our Tradition”: A Case Study of Sewing as a Strategy for Arts-Based Inquiry in Health Research With Inuit Women |
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