In this “researcher's prologue,” I story my experiences performing as and about a lighthouse, sharing how this experience served as a catalyst for a new research trajectory. Narrating my writing, rehearsal, and performance as processes of inquiry, I share how this work generated critical questions about lighthouses as technologies, the dynamics of technoscientific care, and performative storytelling as a potential local communicative strategy. I draw upon performance studies’ theorizations of listening, writing, rehearsing, and performing, to present, by way of example, a methodological strategy for attending to the liminal research time between inspiration and systematic research study.
© 2015 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Request permission to photocopy or reproduce article content at the University of California Press's Rights and Permissions website at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintinfo.asp.
2015
You do not currently have access to this content.
University of California Press