Documents of Life Revisited

Narrative and Biographical Methodology for a 21st Century Critical Humanism
Herausgeber: Stanley, Liz

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Produktbeschreibung

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. A rich examination of the methods and methodologies associated with contemporary research in the social sciences and humanities, this book will be of interest to those concerned with the use and importance of biographical and narrative sources and documents of life investigations. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, social anthropologists and geographers, as well as scholars of cultural studies and cultural history, literary studies and library, archive and cultural management, social policy and medical studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9781409442899
• ISBN-10: 1409442896
• Artikelnr.: 41250754

Autorenporträt

Liz Stanley is Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh and Director of its Centre for Narrative and Auto/Biographical Studies, UK. She is the author of Mourning Becomes... Post/Memory and the Concentration Camps of the South African War; Imperialism, Labour and the New Woman: Olive Schreiner's Social Theory; Sex Surveyed, 1949 to 1994: From Mass-Observation's 'Little Kinsey' to the National Survey and The Hite Reports and The Auto/Biographical I: Theory and Practice of Feminist Auto/Biography. She is co-author of Breaking Out Again: Feminist Ontology and Epistemology; and The Life and Death of Emily Wilding Davison. She is editor of Knowing Feminisms: On Academic Borders, Territories and Tribes; Feminist Praxis: Research, Theory and Epistemology in Feminist Sociology; The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick; and British Feminist Histories and co-editor of Debates in Sociology; and Men and Sex.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Documents of Life and Critical Humanism in a Narrative and
Biographical Frame, Liz Stanley; Part I After the Posts: Reconceiving
Methods and Methodologies; Chapter 1 Lies and Truths: Exploring the Lie as
a Document of Life, Clair Morrow; Chapter 2 Critical Humanist Thoughts on
the Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiography: 'Nobody wages war with
Dostoevsky or Dickens', Claire Lynch; Chapter 3 The Essential Subject? The
Very Documented Life of Myra Hindley, Helen Pleasance; Chapter 4 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; Chapter 5 The Diarists' Audience, Sally Fincher; Chapter 6 Someone
Telling Something to Someone about Something? Stories in Olive Schreiner's
Letters and Nella Last's Diary, Andrea Salter; Chapter 7 Between Diary and
Memoir: Documenting a Life in Wartime Britain, Cate Watson; Chapter 8
Forgotten Memories? Silence, Reason, Truth and the Carnival, Heather
Blenkinsop; Chapter 9 Dear Mrs President: Children'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;
Chapter 10 Identifying The Quotidian in the Heterotopic Universe of Olive
Schreiner's Letters, Helen Dampier; Chapter 11 Documents of Life and the
Undead: Online Postmortem Photographs and Critical Humanist Ethics, Sue
Wise; Chapter 12 Writing Water: An Untimely Academic Novella, Mona
Livholts; Chapter 13 Everything Speaks: A Multidimensional Approach to
Researching the Lithuanian Jewish Past, Shivaun Woolfson; Part IV Stories
and Storied Lives: A Manifesto; Chapter 14 A Manifesto for Social Stories,
Ken Plummer;