From the Publisher
“Narrative inquiry continues its abundant flourishing across the social sciences. All too seldom, however, do we find responsible reflection on these efforts - their roots, tensions, potentials, and shortcomings. Julia Vassilieva's work is an invaluable contribution to just this kind of dialogue. With clarity and caring discernment, she singles out three major lines of endeavor and submits them to penetrating analysis. Not only is our understanding enriched, but there is salutary and significant challenge here for charting the future of inquiry.” (Kenneth J. Gergen, Senior Research Professor, Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College, USA and author of The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life, Social Construction in Context, Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community)
“In this book, Vassilieva provides a wide-ranging and thought-provoking address to narrative subjectivity, narrative research and practice, and narrative ethics. Valuably and unusually, she brings North America, European and Australasian approaches into dialogue with each other. An accessible, beautifully written and insightful book.” (Corinne Squire, Professor of Social Sciences and Codirector of the Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London, UK and author of HIV in South Africa: Talking About the Big, Doing Narrative Research (edited with Molly Andrews and Maria Tamboukou, Sage, 2008) and HIV in International Perspective (edited with Mark Davis, Palgrave, 2010))
