Routledge International Handbook on Narrative and Life History

<p>In recent decades, there has been a substantial turn towards narrative and life history study. The embrace of narrative and life history work has accompanied the move to postmodernism and post-structuralism across a wide range of disciplines: sociological studies, gender studies, cultural studies, social history; literary theory; and, most recently, psychology. </p><p>Written by leading international scholars from the main contributing perspectives and disciplines, <em>The Routledge International Handbook on Narrative and Life History</em> seeks to capture the range and scope as well as the considerable complexity of the field of narrative study and life history work by situating these fields of study within the historical and contemporary context. Topics covered include: </p><p>• The historical emergences of life history and narrative study</p><p>• Techniques for conducting life history and narrative study </p><p>• Identity and politics </p><p>• Generational history </p><p>• Social and psycho-social approaches to narrative history </p><p>With chapters from expert contributors, this volume will prove a comprehensive and authoritative resource to students, researchers and educators interested in narrative theory, analysis and interpretation.</p> <p><strong>1</strong> The Rise of the Life Narrative <b>2 </b>The Story of Life History <b>3 </b>How Stories Found a Home in Human Personality <b>4 </b>Narrative and Life History Research in International Education: Re-Conceptualisation from the Field <b>5 </b>What have you Got when you’ve Got a Life Story? <b>6 </b>Techniques for Doing Life History <b>7</b> The Story so Far: Personal Knowledge and the Political <b>8 </b>Always a Story <b>9</b> On Coming to Narrative and Life History <b>Section 2: </b>Methodological and Sociological Approaches <b>Introduction</b> In Search of Life History <strong>10</strong> The Quest for Lived Truths: Modifying Methodology <b>11</b> Analyzing Novelty and Pattern in Institutional Life Narratives <b>12</b> Zeitgeist, Identity and Politics: The Modern Meaning of the Concept of Generation <b>13</b> Biography as a Theoretical and Methodological Key Concept in Transnational Migration Studies <b>14 </b>Culinary Border Crossings in Autobiographical Writing: The British Asian Case <b>15 </b>Biographical and Narrative Research in Iberoamerica: Emergence, Development and State Fields <b>16</b> A Psycho-Societal Approach to Life Histories <b>17</b> Working-Life Stories <b>18</b> Culturally Available Narratives in Parents’ Stories about Disability <b>19</b> Researching Higher Education Students Biographical Learning <b>20</b> The Narrative Interview – Method, Theory, and Ethics: Unfolding a Life <b>Section 3:</b> Political Narratives and the Study of Lives <b>Introduction</b> Political Narratives and the Study of Lives <b>21</b> Narrative Power, Sexual Stories and the Politics Of Story Telling <b>22</b> Immutability Blues: Stories of Queer Identity in an Age of Tolerance <b>23 </b>Northern Irish Narratives of Protest & Conflict: Back and Forth across the Rubicon <b>24 </b>Aleksandr (Sasha) Pechersky (1909-1990): In Search of a Life Story <b>25</b> Saffron and Orange: Religion, Nation and Masculinity in Canada and India <b>26</b> The Experience of Politics: Narratives of Women MPS in the Indian Parliament<b> 27</b> Making Family Stories Political? Telling Varied Narratives of Serial Migration <b>28</b> The Politics of Personal HIV Stories <b>29</b> Epistolary Entanglements of Love and Politics: Reading Rosa Luxemburg’s Letters<b> 30</b> Politics and Narrative Agency in the History of The Victoria and Albert Museum. <b>Section 4:</b> Ethical Approaches <b>Introduction</b> ‘But who is Mrs Galinsky, Mother?’: From Nana Sikes’ Stories to Studying Lives and Careers <b>31</b> Ethical Considerations Entailed by A Relational Ontology in Narrative Inquiry <b>32</b> Compassionate Research: Interviewing and Storytelling from a Relational Ethics of Care <b>33</b> Suspicious, Suspect and Vulnerable: Going Beyond the Call and Duty of Ethics in Life History Research <b>34</b> The Ethics of Researching Something Dear to My Heart with Others ‘Like Me’ <b>35</b> How Stories of Illness Practice Moral Life <b>36</b> The Ethics of Researching and Representing Dis/ability<b> 37</b> An Act of Remembering: Making the ‘Collective Memories’ My Own and Confronting Ethical Issues<b> 38</b> ‘The Path is made by Walking on It’: Ethical Complexities in Supervising International Doctoral Researchers Using Narrative Approaches <b>39 </b>Writing the (Country) Girl: Narratives of Place, Matter, Relations and Memory <b>40</b> Ethics and the Writing of After a Fall: A Sociomedical Sojourn <b>41 </b>Ethics and the Tyranny of Narrative <b>42</b> The Door and the Dark: Trouble Telling Tales <b>43 </b>"Styles of Good Sense": Ethics, Filmmaking and Scholarship <b>44 </b>Lingering Ethical Tensions in Narrative Inquiry <b>45</b> Purpose Built Ethical Considerations for Narrative Research: Broad Consent or Process Consent but not Informed Consent <b>46</b> A Relational Ethic for Narrative Inquiry, or in The Forest but Lost in the Trees, or a One-Act Play with Many Endings <b>47</b> Narrative Ethics</p>