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Orienting My Map to North

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Theatricalising Narrative Research on Women Casual Academics

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This chapter shares the complexity and human dimension(ality) of arts-informed narrative research. It considers the need for alignment between a research methodology, methods, and communication, yet illustrates how research doesn’t always journey along a pre-planned path. In sharing my embodied resistance to a planned narrative analysis, I reflect on the need for regular, fully embodied reflexivity to fulfil the overall aims of a research project. Further, the chapter explores the congruence between narrative, Arts-based and feminist approaches to research, and shares an innovative narrative restorying practice which merges Gee’s (An introduction to discourse analysis: theory and method, 2nd edn. Routledge, London, 2005) process of data gathering with a new materialist approach to capturing data that ‘glows’ (MacLure, Crit Methodol 13(4):228–232, 2013). In so doing, new and promiscuous research processes are celebrated.

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Crimmins, G. (2018). Orienting My Map to North. In: Theatricalising Narrative Research on Women Casual Academics. Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71562-9_3

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