Doing Narrative Research

Second Edition
Molly Andrews - University of East London, UK
Corinne Squire - University of East London, UK
Maria Tamboukou - University of East London, UK
Doing Narrative Research
July 2013 | 288 pages | Sage UK
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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.

Contents

List of Contributors

List of Contributors

Introduction: What is Narrative Research?

Introduction: What is Narrative Research?

Narratives of Events: Labovian Narrative Analysis and its Limitations

Narratives of Events: Labovian Narrative Analysis and its Limitations

From Experience-Centred to Socioculturally-Oriented Approaches to Narrative

From Experience-Centred to Socioculturally-Oriented Approaches to Narrative

Analysing Narrative Contexts

Analysing Narrative Contexts

A Foucauldian Approach to Narratives

A Foucauldian Approach to Narratives

Practising a Rhizomatic Perspective in Narrative Research

Practising a Rhizomatic Perspective in Narrative Research

Bodies, Embodiment and Stories

Bodies, Embodiment and Stories

Seeing Narratives

Seeing Narratives

Doing Research 'On and Through' New Media Narrative

Doing Research 'On and Through' New Media Narrative

Approaches to Narrative Worldmaking

Approaches to Narrative Worldmaking

Looking Back on Narrative Research: An Exchange

Looking Back on Narrative Research: An Exchange

Never the Last Word: Revisiting Data

Never the Last Word: Revisiting Data

Narrating Sensitive Topics

Narrating Sensitive Topics

The Public Life of Narratives: Ethics, Politics, Methods

The Public Life of Narratives: Ethics, Politics, Methods

Concluding Comments

Concluding Comments

Afterword: The Monkey Wrenches of Narrative

Afterword: The Monkey Wrenches of Narrative

Index

Index

Description

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.

Contents

List of Contributors

List of Contributors

Introduction: What is Narrative Research?

Introduction: What is Narrative Research?

Narratives of Events: Labovian Narrative Analysis and its Limitations

Narratives of Events: Labovian Narrative Analysis and its Limitations

From Experience-Centred to Socioculturally-Oriented Approaches to Narrative

From Experience-Centred to Socioculturally-Oriented Approaches to Narrative

Analysing Narrative Contexts

Analysing Narrative Contexts

A Foucauldian Approach to Narratives

A Foucauldian Approach to Narratives

Practising a Rhizomatic Perspective in Narrative Research

Practising a Rhizomatic Perspective in Narrative Research

Bodies, Embodiment and Stories

Bodies, Embodiment and Stories

Seeing Narratives

Seeing Narratives

Doing Research 'On and Through' New Media Narrative

Doing Research 'On and Through' New Media Narrative

Approaches to Narrative Worldmaking

Approaches to Narrative Worldmaking

Looking Back on Narrative Research: An Exchange

Looking Back on Narrative Research: An Exchange

Never the Last Word: Revisiting Data

Never the Last Word: Revisiting Data

Narrating Sensitive Topics

Narrating Sensitive Topics

The Public Life of Narratives: Ethics, Politics, Methods

The Public Life of Narratives: Ethics, Politics, Methods

Concluding Comments

Concluding Comments

Afterword: The Monkey Wrenches of Narrative

Afterword: The Monkey Wrenches of Narrative

Index

Index

July 2013 | 288 pages | Sage UK

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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.


Table Of Contents:

  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction: What is Narrative Research?
  • Narratives of Events: Labovian Narrative Analysis and its Limitations
  • From Experience-Centred to Socioculturally-Oriented Approaches to Narrative
  • Analysing Narrative Contexts
  • A Foucauldian Approach to Narratives
  • Practising a Rhizomatic Perspective in Narrative Research
  • Bodies, Embodiment and Stories
  • Seeing Narratives
  • Doing Research 'On and Through' New Media Narrative
  • Approaches to Narrative Worldmaking
  • Looking Back on Narrative Research: An Exchange
  • Never the Last Word: Revisiting Data
  • Narrating Sensitive Topics
  • The Public Life of Narratives: Ethics, Politics, Methods
  • Concluding Comments
  • Afterword: The Monkey Wrenches of Narrative
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

Excellent user friendly book which captures the subject matter on Narrative Research in a holistic manner.
Ms Val Sylvester, School of Social Work, Birmingham City University
Written by an international and interdisciplinary team of experts in the field of narrative research, the anthology demonstrates theoretical, methodological and practical issues of narrative research. This volume can be an invaluable resource for understanding what is narrative research, how we do this and what narrative does to our lives.
Rumana Hashem, University of East London
Doing Narrative Research is a wonderful introduction for anyone not familiar with the current interests of a broad range of social scientists and fieldworkers or the methodological and theoretical foundations at the heart of those interests. To undertake seriously the kinds of theoretical introspection urged here would, I am sure, expand the horizons of oral history analysis and enrich our understanding of what it is we do.
Ronald Grele, Columbia University, Oral History Review

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