Read more
Written by an international team of experts in the field, the second edition of this popular text considers both the theoretical underpinnings and practical applications of narrative research. The authors take the reader from initial decisions about forms of narrative research, through more complex issues of reflexivity, interpretation and the research context. Existing chapters have been updated to reflect changes in the literature and new chapters from eminent narrative scholars in Europe, Australia and the United States have been added on a variety of topics including narratives and embodiment, visual narratives, narratives and storyworlds, new media narratives and Deleuzian perspectives in narrative research.
This book will be invaluable for all students, researchers and academics looking to use narrative methods in their own social research.
List of contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: What is Narrative Research? - Maria Tamboukou and Molly Andrews, Corinne Squire
Narratives of Events: Labovian Narrative Analysis and its Limitations - Wendy Patterson
From Experience-Centred to Socioculturally-Oriented Approaches to Narrative - Corinne Squire
Analysing Narrative Contexts - Ann Phoenix
A Foucauldian Approach to Narratives - Maria Tamboukou
Practising a Rhizomatic Perspective in Narrative Research - Gerrit Loots, Kathleen Coppens and Jasmina Sermijn
Bodies, Embodiment and Stories - Lars-Christer Hydén
Seeing Narratives - Susan E Bell
Doing Research ¿On and Through¿ New Media Narrative - Mark Davis
Approaches to Narrative Worldmaking - David Herman
Looking Back on Narrative Research: An Exchange - Phillida Salmon and Catherine Kohler Riessman
Never the Last Word: Revisiting Data - Molly Andrews
Narrating Sensitive Topics - Margareta Hydén
The Public Life of Narratives: Ethics, Politics, Methods - Paul Gready
Concluding Comments - Catherine Kohler Riessman
Afterword: The Monkey Wrenches of Narrative - Jens Brockmeier
Index
About the author
Molly Andrews is Professor of Political Psychology, and Codirector of the Centre for Narrative Research (www.uelac.uk/cnr/index.htm) at the University of East London. Her research interests includes political narratives, the psychological basis of political commitment, political identity, and patriotism.
Corinne SQUIRE is Professor of Social Sciences and Co-Director, Centre for Narrative Research, at the University of East London, and Research Associate, University of the Witwatersrand. Her research interests are in subjectivities and popular culture, narrative theory and methods, HIV and citizenship, and refugee politics.
Maria Tamboukou (BA, MA, PhD) is a professor of feminist studies at the University of East London, UK. Her research activity develops in the areas of philosophies and epistemologies in the social sciences, feminist theories, narrative analytics, and archival research. Writing feminist genealogies is the central focus of her work. She is the author of seven monographs and more than 70 journal articles and book chapters. Recent publications include the monographs Sewing, Writing and Fighting; Gendering the Memory of Work; Women Workers’ Education as well as the coauthored the book The Archive Project.
Summary
Acting as a practical and theoretical guide to doing narrative research, this book considers issues such as reflexivity, interpretation and the research context, helping readers to gain a well-rounded view of narrative methods research
