Table of Contents
1 The Rise of the Life Narrative
2 The Story of Life History
3 How Stories Found a Home in Human Personality
4 Narrative and Life History Research in International Education: Re-Conceptualisation from the Field
5 What have you Got when you’ve Got a Life Story?
6 Techniques for Doing Life History
7 The Story so Far: Personal Knowledge and the Political
8 Always a Story
9 On Coming to Narrative and Life History
Section 2: Methodological and Sociological Approaches
Introduction In Search of Life History
10 The Quest for Lived Truths: Modifying Methodology
11 Analyzing Novelty and Pattern in Institutional Life Narratives
12 Zeitgeist, Identity and Politics: The Modern Meaning of the Concept of Generation
13 Biography as a Theoretical and Methodological Key Concept in Transnational Migration Studies
14 Culinary Border Crossings in Autobiographical Writing: The British Asian Case
15 Biographical and Narrative Research in Iberoamerica: Emergence, Development and State Fields
16 A Psycho-Societal Approach to Life Histories
17 Working-Life Stories
18 Culturally Available Narratives in Parents’ Stories about Disability
19 Researching Higher Education Students Biographical Learning
20 The Narrative Interview – Method, Theory, and Ethics: Unfolding a Life
Section 3: Political Narratives and the Study of Lives
Introduction Political Narratives and the Study of Lives
21 Narrative Power, Sexual Stories and the Politics Of Story Telling
22 Immutability Blues: Stories of Queer Identity in an Age of Tolerance
23 Northern Irish Narratives of Protest & Conflict: Back and Forth across the Rubicon
24 Aleksandr (Sasha) Pechersky (1909-1990): In Search of a Life Story
25 Saffron and Orange: Religion, Nation and Masculinity in Canada and India
26 The Experience of Politics: Narratives of Women MPS in the Indian Parliament
27 Making Family Stories Political? Telling Varied Narratives of Serial Migration
28 The Politics of Personal HIV Stories
29 Epistolary Entanglements of Love and Politics: Reading Rosa Luxemburg’s Letters
30 Politics and Narrative Agency in the History of The Victoria and Albert Museum.
Section 4: Ethical Approaches
Introduction ‘But who is Mrs Galinsky, Mother?’: From Nana Sikes’ Stories to Studying Lives and Careers
31 Ethical Considerations Entailed by A Relational Ontology in Narrative Inquiry
32 Compassionate Research: Interviewing and Storytelling from a Relational Ethics of Care
33 Suspicious, Suspect and Vulnerable: Going Beyond the Call and Duty of Ethics in Life History Research
34 The Ethics of Researching Something Dear to My Heart with Others ‘Like Me’
35 How Stories of Illness Practice Moral Life
36 The Ethics of Researching and Representing Dis/ability
37 An Act of Remembering: Making the ‘Collective Memories’ My Own and Confronting Ethical Issues
38 ‘The Path is made by Walking on It’: Ethical Complexities in Supervising International Doctoral Researchers Using Narrative Approaches
39 Writing the (Country) Girl: Narratives of Place, Matter, Relations and Memory
40 Ethics and the Writing of After a Fall: A Sociomedical Sojourn
41 Ethics and the Tyranny of Narrative
42 The Door and the Dark: Trouble Telling Tales
43 "Styles of Good Sense": Ethics, Filmmaking and Scholarship
44 Lingering Ethical Tensions in Narrative Inquiry
45 Purpose Built Ethical Considerations for Narrative Research: Broad Consent or Process Consent but not Informed Consent
46 A Relational Ethic for Narrative Inquiry, or in The Forest but Lost in the Trees, or a One-Act Play with Many Endings
47 Narrative Ethics