In: KWALON: Tijdschrift voor Kwalitatief Onderzoek, Band 23, Heft 1
ISSN: 1875-7324
Narrative Matters is een tweejaarlijks congres waaraan internationale onderzoekers uit verschillende disciplines deelnemen. De snel groeiende interesse in verhalen en story-telling in verschillende disciplines en professionele vakgebieden brengt een aantal uitdagingen met zich mee.
Narrative research. An introduction of characteristics and challenges of a rapidly growing research field. Narrative research. An introduction of characteristics and challenges of a rapidly growing research field. This article provides a brief overview of different narrative approaches in social scientific inquiry. First different definitions, methodological and epistemological approaches are introduced. Then, the emergence of a narrative approach in the social sciences is situated in historical and societal contexts. Finally, some challenges and potentials of developing this rapidly growing approach are identified. In particular the use of technological developments and the advancement of the relational turn in narrative inquiry are addressed. In the discussion, arguments are presented concerning a more methodical approach and attention is drawn to the risks of losing the humanistic potential of narrative research.
Hermeneutic narrative analysis: shaping possibilities Hermeneutic narrative analysis: shaping possibilities A hermeneutic narrative analysis is focused on shaping possible interpretations of what is told. The article describes the theoretical stance of such an analysis, like an interwovenness of the object and the subject, the knower and the known. It provides an example of the five phases of the analysis process. The purpose of that process is to interpret and reconstruct a narrative of and together with respondents.