£65.00
Publication Date:
28 Jun 2013
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Imprint:
Ashgate Publishing
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Description
The cultural and narrative turn has had a considerable impact upon research in the social sciences as well as in the arts and humanities, with Ken Plummer's Documents of Life constituting a central text in the turn towards to narrative, biographical and qualitative methodologies, challenging and changing the nature of research in sociology and further afield. Bringing together the latest research on auto/biographical and narrative methods, Documents of Life Revisited offers a sympathetic yet critical engagement with Plummer's work, exploring a range of different kinds of life documents and delineating a critical humanist methodology for researching and writing about these.
Contents
Contents: Preface; Introduction: Introduction: documents of life and critical humanism in a narrative and biographical frame, Liz Stanley; Part I After the Posts: Re-Conceiving Methods and Methodologies: Lies and truths: exploring the lie as a document of life, Clair Morrow; Critical humanist thoughts on the Burnett archive of working class autobiography: a Nobody wages war with Dostoevsky or Dickensa (TM), Claire Lynch; The essential subject? The very documented life of Myra Hindley, Helen Pleasance; Whites writing: letters and documents of life in a QLR project, Liz Stanley. Part II On Tellings and Retellings: Analysing Stories, Audiences and Constructed Lives: The diarista (TM)s audience, Sally Fincher; Somebody telling something to someone about something? Stories in Olive Schreinera (TM)s letters and Nella Lasta (TM)s diary, Andrea Salter; Between diary and memoir: documenting a life in wartime Britain, Cate Watson; Forgotten memories? Silence, reason, truth and the carnival, Heather Blenkinsop; Dear Mrs President: childrena (TM)s letters to the President of Finland as documents of life, Ulla-Maija Salo. Part III The Ordinary, Virtual, Untimely, Sacred: Critical Humanist Knowledge-Making: Identifying the quotidian in the heterotopic universe of Olive Schreinera (TM)s letters, Helen Dampier; Documents of life and the undead: online postmortem photographs and critical humanist ethics, Sue Wise; Writing water: an untimely academic novella, Mona Livholts; Everything speaks: a multidimensional approach to researching the Lithuanian Jewish past, Shivaun Woolfson. Stories and Storied Lives: a Manifesto: A manifesto for social stories, Ken Plummer; Indexes.
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