Journeys into ‘the Heart of Interpretation’: Narrative, Culture and Meaning
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| Description: | Lecture by Professor Molly Andrews for the World Oral Literature Project Occasional Lecture Series |
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| Created: | 2011-02-16 16:39 |
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| Collection: | World Oral Literature Project Lectures |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | World Oral Literature Project |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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| Keywords: | narrative; interpretation; meaning; orality; oral history; East Germany; |
| Explicit content: | No |
| Abstract: | What are the implications of doing narrative research in communities of which one is not a member? Does this necessarily limit the quality of the data to be collected, or might there be some advantages in being considered an outsider, that is, one to whom entire stories must be explained as nothing can be taken as obvious? The paper will consider how our cultural positioning, as it is perceived by ourselves and by those who we include in our research, feeds into the very heart of the projects we undertake. Molly Andrews is Professor of Sociology, and Co-director of the Centre for Narrative Research at the University of East London, in London, England. Her research interests include the psychological basis of political commitment, psychological challenges posed by societies in transition to democracy, patriotism, conversations between generations, gender and aging, and counter-narratives. She is the author of Lifetimes of Commitment: Aging, Politics, Psychology (Cambridge 1991/2008), and the co-editor of Lines of Narrative (Routledge 2001), Considering Counter-narratives (John Benjamins 2004) and Doing Narrative Research (Sage 2008). Her most recent monograph is Shaping History: Narratives of Political Change (2007) which won the 2008 Outstanding book of the year award of the American Education Research Association, Narrative and Research Special Interest Group. |
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