Research Through, With and As Storying

by Louise Gwenneth Phillips, Tracey Bunda

Research Through, With and As Storying explores how Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars can engage with storying as a tool that disassembles conventions of research. The authors explore the concept of storying across different cultures, times and places, and discuss principles of storying and storying research, considering Indigenous, feminist and critical theory standpoints. Through the book, Phillips and Bunda provide an invitation to locate storying as a valuable ontological, epistemological and methodological contribution to the academy across disciplines, arguing that storying research gives voice to the marginalised in the academy. Providing rich and interesting coverage of the approaches to the field of storying research from Aboriginal and white Australian perspectives, this text seeks to enable a profound understanding of the significance of stories and storying. This book will prove valuable for scholars, students and practitioners who seek to develop alternate and creative contributions to the production of knowledge.

122 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 19, 2018

Reviews

[Helen Varley · Rating 5 out of 5]

this very interesting and important book sets out a compellling case for giving traditional storying a place within academic research, as a tool for research. authors louise phillips & tracey bunda clearly articulate the research capabilities of storying and storytelling, and at the same time demonstrate the limitations of accepted academic practices that exclude marginal voices. the authors have spent decades working with stories in both indigenous and non-indigenous cultures, both within and outside the academy, and bring a wealth of experience and insight to their research. they draw on examples from their own lives and work, and near the end of the book include a useful chapter listing selected works from other artists and researchers in the same or related fields. this book will be useful for researchers across many fields as well as for artists, writers, feminists, and many others. the language may be a barrier for non-academic readers (i had to look up a few words in the dictionary), but it's definitely worth pursuing.

[Tara Brabazon · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an absolutely magnificent book. Wow.

This book explores storying, storytelling and the story. It is methodologically, epistemologically and ontologically rich. This is a - simply - brilliant book.

Anyone interested in the story and its role in academic life and citizenship must read this book.

This book has transformed how I think about 'narrative.' Narrative is for the empowered, the structured and the valued. The rest of us have storying. Let's share these stories.

[Steven Kolber · Rating 5 out of 5]

As advertised, explored stories, storying as methodology and ways that previous scholarship can be considered storying. A deeply personal and affecting work that will imbue with a range of strategies and ideas to explore.