Silence and the narrative research interview

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-8
Author(s):  
Philip John Archard ◽  
Michelle O’Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Research ◽  
Research Interview

Orienting to the category “ordinary – but special” in an Australian-Italian courtship and marriage narrative

2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greer Cavallaro Johnson ◽  
Isabella Paoletti
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Analysis Methods ◽  
Topic Shift ◽  
Research Interview ◽  
Moral Stance ◽  
Choice Of Partner ◽  
Evaluation And Assessment

This article explores the possibilities of working ethnomethodological and conversation analysis methods into narrative analytic research, in relation to the understanding of narrative practices and identity work carried out in the course of the interview interaction. More specifically, we discuss how a storyteller (Olivia) in a research interview inserts a complaint story about her mother's intense objection to her choice of partner, into a relatively ordinary romance tale, and subsequently subverts it. Various conversational strategies, such as recipient design, topic shift and evaluation and assessment, are worked alongside the narrative dimensions of tellibility, tellership and moral stance (Ochs & Capps, 2001) to demonstrate the narrative achievement of an ordinary – but special – identity, in the retelling of events related to Olivia's courtship and the first few weeks of her marriage. (Australian-Italian Narrative Research, Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis)

“I am an adult now”

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew T. Prior
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
North America ◽  
Childhood Abuse ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
Immigrant Identity ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Research Interview ◽  
Young Old ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract This narrative-based study employs membership categorization analysis to address the following question: How does a victim of abuse formulate and manage various categories and related descriptive details to story past trauma in ways that bring about new endings or insights in the present? Drawing on data taken from a larger research project on immigrant identity, the analysis centers on a Cambodian-Vietnamese man’s narrative of childhood abuse and adulthood confrontation. It shows how the teller, by recalibrating person (e.g., ‘father-son’, ‘victim-abuser’), age (e.g., ‘young-old’), place (e.g., ‘North America-Vietnam’), and other categorial resources, re-stories people and events and their psycho-social and moral inferences and outcomes. By tracing how this narrative teller reconstitutes himself from ‘victim’ to ‘hero’, this study offers insight into how a local interactional event (e.g., a research interview) may be transformed into a therapeutic exchange. Insights for therapeutic (re)storying, narrative research, and second language (L2) research are discussed.

Telling Diaspora Stories: theoretical and methodological reflections on narratives of migrancy and belongingness in the second generation

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Christou
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Social Experiences ◽  
Biographical Approach ◽  
The Subject

This article explores the theoretical and methodological implications of the study of second generation migration through the use of life stories, a narrative and biographical approach. It presents a theoretical contextualisation of life history research in addressing the direction it has taken in the study of migration and identity in order to problematise how the subject and subjectivities in narrative research have been framed by social categorisations such as gender, ethnicity, class as well as social experiences such as trauma, exile, memory and imagination. The paper develops the analytical contribution of researching the biographicity of everyday migrant lives. 

Power and politics in migration narrative methodology: Research with young Congolese migrants in Uganda

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Clark-Kazak
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Young People ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Personal Boundaries ◽  
Migration Narratives ◽  
Narrative Methodology

This paper explores the power dynamics inherent in qualitative research involving migration narratives. Drawing on the author’s experiences collecting life histories and constructing narratives of Congolese young people in Uganda, this article addresses the ethical and methodological issues of representivity, ownership, anonymity and confidentiality. It also explores the importance of investment in relationships in migration narrative research, but also the difficulties that arise when professional and personal boundaries become blurred.

Oral History und Narrative Theorie: Vom Erzählen lernen

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (1-2018) ◽  
pp. 135-149
Author(s):  
Nicole L. Immler
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Theory Method ◽  
Oral History Interviews

Wachsende Oral History-Archive weltweit beherbergen abertausende von Interviews, zur Gewaltgeschichte des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts ebenso wie zur Sozialgeschichte verlorener wie gegenwärtiger Lebenswelten. Das digitale Zeitalter macht viele dieser Interviews öffentlich zugänglich. Doch welche Herausforderungen ergeben sich daraus für Wissenschaft und Lehre? Um diese Frage geht es in diesem Aufsatz. An der Universität für Humanistik in Utrecht unterrichte ich das Fach „Narrative Research and Oral History: Theory, Method and Practice“. In meinem Seminar sprechen Zeitzeugen und Zeitzeuginnen durch ihre Egodokumente zu den Studierenden. Der Kurs bringt Selbstzeugnisse, Oral History und narrative Theorie in einen Dialog und erschließt damit den Studierenden die narrative Dimension des menschlichen Daseins. Ich zeige, in welcher Weise narrative (Erzähl-)Theorien hilfreich sind, um Oral History-Interviews in ihrer Komplexität zu analysieren; um simplifizierte Identitätskonstruktionen oder Zuschreibungskategorien wie „Generation“ oder „Trauma“ kritisch zu reflektieren sowie Potentiale und Risiken in Narrativen zu verorten. Mit diesem Aufsatz möchte ich auch der Debatte über das „Re-Using“ von Oral History aus digitalisierten Datenbanken einen Impuls geben.

A Study on Vocational Identity of Vocational Training Teachers through Narrative Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-102
Author(s):  
Sungock Lee ◽  
◽  
Se-Yung Lim ◽  
Yeon-Hong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Training ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Vocational Identity

Becoming a Narrative Researcher in Pakistan: Reflections from the Field

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Haji Karim Khan
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Reflective Journals ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Narrative Studies ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
Research Studies

<p><em>This reflective paper emerges from the reflections on my experience to carry out narrative studies in Pakistan —a country where narrative research in education is still very young. Field-notes, reflective journals and research memos were the key sources of triggering reflections on my learning to take the identity of a narrative researcher in a context where this approach is very young.  </em></p><em>My reflections show the learning experience in conceptualising and practicing narrative studies in the country. The paper shows that I took the roles of an insider, co-constructor of stories, and trust-builder while taking up the identity of a narrative researcher in Pakistan. In addition, becoming a gender sensitive and knowing language and culture of the research participants enabled me to take up the role smoothly.  Findings have pertinent implications for life history research studies in Pakistan and elsewhere.</em>

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