What is Narrative Research? (The 'What is?' Research Methods Series) - Softcover

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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849669732 ISBN 13: 9781849669733

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Synopsis

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

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.

About this title

About the Authors

Corinne Squire is Co-Director of ANRP and Chair in Global Inequalities, University of Bristol, UK.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849669732
• ISBN 13: 9781849669733
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168