Full Description
Introducing key ideas of narrative inquiry, this is the first book to explore in depth the theoretical underpinnings of the methodology. The authors open up ways of thinking about people's experiences and their lives, which are situated and shaped by cultural, social, familial, institutional, and linguistic narratives. The authors draw on a range of theorists, creative nonfiction writers, poets, and essayists. The book is arranged into five parts covering a range of topics including: embodiment, memory, knowledge, wonder, imagination, community, responsibility, and place. Each section ends with a methodological discussion of their work involving refugee families with young children from Syria.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Starting with a Particular View of Experience
1. Experience
2. Knowledge
3. Embodiment
Part I: Methodological Notebook
Part II: Temporality
4. In the Midst
5. Memory
6. Intergenerationality
Part II: Methodological Notebook
Part III: Place: Living Within and on Landscapes
7. Place
8. Community
Part III: Methodological Notebook
Part IV: Imagination and Wonder: Opening into Liminality and Uncertainty
9. Imagination
10. Wonder and Inquiry
11. Uncertainty and Liminality
12. Playfulness
Part IV: Methodological Notebook
Part V: Relationality
13. Political and Social Landscapes
14. Commitment, and Responsibility
Part V: Methodological Notebook
Epilogue
References
Index
