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Kyle
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There is an unsettling tone of earnestness to Riessman's writing about narrative inquiry, something that suggests this method is a shining beacon of justice for the oppressed. Yet unlike Bruner, Eco and Gottschall (so far) who seem to celebrate what story can do, she is more interested in limiting to field to saving the world through ethnography while ignoring her own bias towards oppression as she (sic)'d "mankind."
— Jan 12, 2015 11:31PM
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Kyle
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Finishing off the textbook months after my narrative inquiry course wrapped up allowed me to reflect on the important work I should be doing: making stories that have something to say about how we learn. Many of the visual artists and analysts mentioned in chapter six are doing the same with scholarly examples. Of course Reissman is going to represent the voices of the oppressed, will anyone ever study on unpression?
— Jul 04, 2015 03:20PM
Kyle
is on page 140 of 262
A wonderful method that combines many of the things I love about research, only marred by what I hope were a couple of typos but know is more of Riessman's stance. She puts a couple of [sic]'s after directly quoting Iser's "he" and "himself" - really, I mean, really? - yet commits a few herself: "contemporary black [sic] rap" (p. 118) or the double "the" (p. 118) quoting Brown (or Bakhtin?). Gonna sic you now biotch!
— Mar 26, 2015 04:12PM
Kyle
is on page 103 of 262
A slight shift from thematic to structural analysis give free reign to the social linguistic scholars, and a few familiar (and in some departments, infamous) names pop up: Chomsky and Gee, and old chestnuts like Heath and Labov. Putting someone else's words into clauses or stanza helps organize data, but far from King Lear for the all-encompassing emotional oomph you get when those words mean something more.
— Mar 26, 2015 12:13AM
Kyle
is on page 76 of 262
After weeks away from this book, it is suddenly getting so much better or maybe it is all those narrative inquiry texts I have read in between? In any case, the four thematic inquiry methods are straightforward and encouraging, instilling a sense that I could do that myself despite being warned in this chapter that there is no by-the-books way of inquiring narratively. Being familiar with Cain's AA ethnography helps.
— Mar 24, 2015 11:28PM
Kyle
is on page 51 of 262
While Riessman may see herself as doing good around the world with her brand of narrative inquiry, it has a nasty underlying set of assumptions that she just could not have stumbled upon but rather set out to find: African-American teenage pregnancy, infertility and oppression in South India. What is missing in this chapter are studies of Russian mail-order brides and of transgendered lesbians in Venezuela or Belize.
— Jan 14, 2015 11:37PM
Kyle
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Still trying to put my finger on what the difference is between this straight-up textbook and the more story-like books on narrative inquiry - certainly hope that it is not due to her being a female perspective on he so-far bromantic field of male authors, but it might be. The social sciences tend to be viewed more as a battleground for cultural agency, and more leading researchers get cited than actual storytellers.
— Jan 13, 2015 09:11AM
