Narrative Research: Research Methods (Bloomsbury Research Methods) - Softcover

Andrews, Molly; Davis, Mark; Esin, Cigdem; Harrison, Barbara; Hydén, Lars-Christer; Hydén, Margareta; Lounasmaa, Aura; Squire, Corinne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350319031 ISBN 13: 9781350319035

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Synopsis

First published Open Access under a Creative Commons license as What is Narrative Research?, this title is now also available as part of the Bloomsbury Research Methods series.

Narrative research has become a catchword in the social sciences today, promising new fields of inquiry and creative solutions to persistent problems. This book brings together ideas about narrative from a variety of contexts across the social sciences and synthesizes understandings of the field. Rather than focusing on theory, it examines how narrative research is conducted and applied. It operates as a practical introductory guide, basic enough for first-time researchers, but also as a window onto the more complex questions and difficulties that all researchers in this area face. The authors guide readers through current debates about how to obtain and analyse narrative data, about the nature of narrative, the place of the researcher, the limits of researcher interpretations, and the significance of narrative work in applied and in broader political contexts.

This new edition includes updated references and a greater focus on digitality throughout. It addresses social justice and decoloniality more explicitly, centrally and consistently, drawing on examples around Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, climate change and Extinction Rebellion, and Covid and pandemic narratives.

About this title

About the Authors

Molly Andrews is Honorary Professor of Political Psychology at the Social Research Institute, University College London, UK and co-director of the Association for Narrative Research and Practice (ANRP).

Mark Davis is Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Australia.

Cigdem Esin was a narrative researcher and co-director of the Association of Narrative Research and Practice - previously the Centre for Narrative Research. She first arrived at CNR to do her PhD in 2004. Before her untimely death in 2022, Cigdem taught Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London, UK.

Barbara Harrison is Emerita Professor of Sociology at University of East London, UK.

Lars-Christer Hydén is Professor Emeitus of Social Psychology at Linköping University, Sweden.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350319031
• ISBN 13: 9781350319035
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 184