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Experience-based Research in Psychology: Bodies, Affections and Experiences in Urban Territories

Abstract

In this article we will discuss how we can promote other forms of occupation and production of academic territory in the face of emerging issues in psychology research in urban territories. We present a theoretical debate on how research related to territories and territorialities has theoretically and epistemologically changed our field of knowledge and its forms of construction. Inspired by situationist dérive, we emphasize the experience produced by the bodies and affections of those who investigate the city. Walking through urban territories as a methodological alternative leads us to argue that our bodies make up the research process, making possible and ordering the construction of knowledge. We continue our reflection suggesting experience-based research as a production strategy, of narrative and problematization of knowledge from a singular body affected by the encounters that occurred in the territories: living experience is the starting point for a second moment, fundamental, when the experience is shifted to the academic territory and, with theoretical-political tools, the relationship territorialities-subjectivities is analyzed.

Body; Affections; Experience; Territorialities; Research

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