Troubling Method: Narrative Research as Being

Roland Mitchell,Paul Eaton,Petra Munro Hendry

Troubling Method: Narrative Research as Being
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country
United States
Published
30 November 2018
Pages
242
ISBN
9781433155390

Troubling Method: Narrative Research as Being

Roland Mitchell,Paul Eaton,Petra Munro Hendry

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Troubling Method seeks to extract narrative inquiry from method. The shift to a post-humanist, post-qualitative moment is not just another stage in modernism that seeks to improve knowledge production, but is a shift to understanding research as an ontology, a way of being in the world, rather than a mode of production. Fundamental assumptions of research: method, data, analysis, and findings are deconstructed and reconfigured as a mode of relational intra-action.

Troubling Method is constructed as a dialogue between the three authors, focusing on their work as qualitative, narrative researchers. The authors revisit six previously published works in which they grapple with the contradictions and ironies of engaging in pragmatist, critical, and feminist qualitative research. After a lengthy introduction which problematizes method, the book is divided into three sections, each with two chapters that are bracketed by an introduction to the issues discussed in the chapters and then a dialogue interlude in which the authors deliberate what makes possible the questions they are raising about method and narrative research. The three sections attend to the central premises of narrative research as being : 1) relationships, 2) listening, and 3) unknowing.

Troubling Method is ideal for introductory or advanced courses in qualitative research, narrative inquiry, educational research, and those aimed at employing critical theories in qualitative and narrative inquiry.

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