The Routledge International Handbook on Narrative and Life History

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PART I Life histories and narratives
	Introduction: Life histories and narratives
	1 The rise of the life narrative
	2 The story of life history
	3 How stories found a home in human personality
	4 Narrative and life history research in international education: Re-conceptualisation from the field
	5 What have you got when you’ve got a life story?
	6 Techniques for doing life history
	7 The story so far: Personal knowledge and the political
	8 Always a story
	9 On coming to narrative and life history
PART II Methodological and sociological approaches
	Introduction: In search of life history
	10 The quest for lived truths: Modifying methodology
	11 Analyzing novelty and pattern in institutional life narratives
	12 Zeitgeist, identity and politics: The modern meaning of the concept of generation
	13 Biography as a theoretical and methodological key concept in transnational migration studies
	14 Culinary border crossings in autobiographical writing: The British Asian case
	15 Biographical and narrative research in Iberoamerica: Emergence, development and state fields
	16 A psycho-societal approach to life histories
	17 Working-life stories
	18 Culturally available narratives in parents’ stories about disability
	19 Researching higher education students’ biographical learning
	20 The narrative interview – method, theory and ethics: Unfolding a life
PART III Political narratives and the study of lives
	Introduction: Political narratives and the study of lives
	21 Narrative power, sexual stories and the politics of story telling
	22 Immutability blues: Stories of queer identity in an age of tolerance
	23 Northern Irish narratives of protest and conflict: Back and forth across the rubicon
	24 Aleksandr (Sasha) Pechersky (1909–1990): In search of a life story
	25 Saffron and Orange: Religion, nation and masculinity in Canada and India
	26 The experience of politics: Narratives of women MPs in the Indian parliament
	27 Making family stories political? Telling varied narratives of serial migration
	28 The politics of personal HIV stories
	29 Epistolary entanglements of love and politics: Reading Rosa Luxemburg’s letters
	30 Politics and narrative agency in the history of the Victoria and Albert Museum
PART IV Ethical approaches
	Introduction: ‘But who is Mrs Galinsky, mother?’: From Nana Sikes’ stories to studying lives and careers
	31 Ethical considerations entailed by a relational ontology in narrative inquiry
	32 Compassionate research: Interviewing and storytelling from a relational ethics of care
	33 Suspicious, suspect and vulnerable: Going beyond the call and duty of ethics in life history research
	34 The ethics of researching something dear to my heart with others ‘like me’
	35 How stories of illness practice moral life
	36 The ethics of researching and representing dis/ability
	37 An act of remembering: Making the ‘collective memories’ my own and confronting ethical issues
	38 ‘The path is made by walking on it’: Ethical complexities in supervising international doctoral researchers using narrative approaches
	39 Writing the (country) girl: Narratives of place, matter, relations and memory
	40 Ethics and the writing of After a Fall: A Sociomedical Sojourn
	41 Ethics and the tyranny of narrative
	42 The door and the dark: Trouble telling tales
	43 “Styles of good sense”: Ethics, filmmaking and scholarship
	44 Lingering ethical tensions in narrative inquiry
	45 Purpose built ethical considerations for narrative research: Broad consent or process consent but not informed consent
	46 A relational ethic for narrative inquiry, or in the forest but lost in the trees, or a one-act play with many endings
	47 Narrative ethics
Author Index
Subject Index