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In Chap. 4, we explore the notion of assemblage, focusing on the idea that identities and contexts are complex—that they consist of a multiplicity of different elements. We also explore the idea that these complex entities are relational; that is, they are composed of a diverse range of interdependent elements, which in turn exist in relationship with ‘what they are not’.
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Troubling Invitation 4: Knowing Drawing on Others
Troubling Invitation 4: Knowing Drawing on Others
In the third troubling invitation we asked readers to engage with a narrative and to identify the key knowing frame deployed to make sense of it. We then asked readers to identify two other places from where sense could be made of the narrative . We sought to make the point that the place we know a story from impacts the meaning we make of it and the implications we draw from it.
Running with the notion of exteriorities , and keeping in mind that other people may be thought of as exteriorities, we ask readers to talk with others, to discuss their knowing frames and in doing so to reveal further ways that Muhammed’s story might be engaged with. Collectively engaging with stories thickens the meanings generated.
Michael: In this troubling section we introduce an idea about a story that has been underplayed so far in the text, in that much of what we have written so far, on some level, assumes that the work of analysing narratives is work done by an individual.
Mic: Oh yes, I agree … it’s a bit like academic work—often it’s work that I will do on my own and that’s why this project has been really good because it has progressed or unfolded through constant conversation with you.
Michael: Yes … the dialogue parts of the project have worked well … my thinking has shifted as we’ve talked about the narratives and our writing … and engaging with the stories of others, with others, and venturing into those in-between spaces we were discussing before have the potential to support complex readings of narratives because we can borrow knowing frames from those we engage in dialogue with … and this also mirrors the collaborative work that we have engaged in as we have written this text … it’s thicker.
Mic: Something else that comes to mind for me is that at the same time you or I or we analyse stories, we are also becoming … it’s like it’s Heidegger’s idea that … the stories are having an impact on me … they are shaping and determining how I understand myself and others.
Michael: Yes … the stories we are working with also work us … we’re not a fixed exteriority in relation to the stories we’ve worked with.
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Crowhurst, M., Emslie, M. (2018). Assemblage as Analysis. In: Working Creatively with Stories and Learning Experiences. Creativity, Education and the Arts. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69754-3_4
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