Critical Humanism, Symbolic Interactionism and Narrative Research: A Select Bibliography
INTRODUCTION TO QUALITATIVE AND NARRATIVE RESEARCH
Introductory reading for the course
Ken Plummer Documents of Life -2: an invitation to a critical humanism (2001) Sage
Ken Plummer Sociology: The Basics (2010) Routledge
Howard S Becker Telling about Society (2007) Chicago
C.Wright Mills The Sociological Imagination : Appendix (1962) Oxford
Les Back The Art of Listening (2007) Berg
Liz Stanley Documents of Life Revisited (2013) Ashgate
The qualitative turn
Norman Denzin & Yvonna
Lincoln Handbook of Qualitative Research (various editions since 1994: 4th edition 2012)
Jaber Gubrium
& James Holstein The New Language of Qualitative Method (1997) Oxford
Some Styles of qualitative research
Norman Denzin Performance Ethnography ( 2003) Sage
Sarah Pink Doing Sensory Ethnography (2009) Sage
Paul Thompson Voice of the Past: Oral History (2000 3rd ed) Opus
Helen Thomas &
Jamilah Ahmed Cultural Bodies: Ethnography and Theory (2003)Wiley
Zauzsa Gille & Sean O Riain ‘ Global Ethnography’ Annual Review of Sociology 2002 Vol 28: 271-295
Graeme Sullivan Art Practice as Research (2009 2nd ed ) Sage
Gillian Rose Visual Methodologies (2009 2nd ed) Sage
Robert V Kozinets Netnography (2009) Sage
Christian Heath Video in Qualitative Research (2008) Sage
Paula Sauko Doing Research in Cultural Studies (2003) Sage
David Silverman ed Qualitative Research (2010 3nd edition) Sage
Ann Gray Research practice for cultural studies (2003) Sage
Mike Savage &
Roger Burrows ‘The Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology’ Sociology (October 2007) Vol 41 p885-900
See also: Thick Description Geertz, Clifford. “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture”. In The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays. (New York: Basic Books, 1973) 3-30.See: http://hypergeertz.jku.at/GeertzTexts/Thick_Description.htm
Critical qualitative research
Norman Denzin The Qualitative Manifesto: A Call to Arms (2010) Left Coast Press
D.Soyini Madison Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics and Performance. (2005) Sage
Gayle Letherby Feminist Research in Theory and Practice (2003) OU Press
Dorothy Smith The Everyday World as Problematic (1988) Northeastern University Press
———— Writing the Social (1998) Toronto
Marjorie de Vault Liberating Methodology: Feminism and Research (1999) Temple
Michael Buroway et al Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections and Imaginations in a Postmodern World (2000) California
Norman Denzin
and Yvonne Lincoln The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research 3rd edition Sage (2007) (but other editions are worth looking at- they are different)
Linda T Smith Decolonizing Methodologies Zed Books 1999
Norman K.Denzin &
Yvonna S.Lincoln&
Linda Tuhiwai Smith Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies eds (2008) Sage
Judith Butler Giving a Stance of Oneself (2005) Fordham University
Kath Browne et al Queer Methods and Methodologies (2010) Ashgate
Chela Sandoval Methodology of the Oppressed (2000) University of Minnesota
APPRECIATING NARRATIVE REALITIES AND THE NARRATIVE TURN IN SOCIETY
General Narrative/ Story Texts
Jaber Gubrium &
James Holstein Varieties of Narrative Analysis (2013)
———————- Analyzing Narrative Reality (2008) Oxford.
———————- The Self We Live By (2000) Oxford
Molly Andrews Shaping History: Narratives of Political Change (2007) Cambridge
Ken Plummer Telling Sexual Stories: Power, change and social worlds (1995) Routledge
Dan P.McAdams The Stories We Live By: Personal myths and the making of the self (1993) Guildford
Marianne Horsdal Telling Lives: Exploring Dimensions of Narratives (2012). Routledge
Charles Tilly Stories, Identities and Political Change (2002) Rowman and Littlefield
Kay Schaffer & Sidonie Smith Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The ethics of recognition (2004) Palgrave
Joseph E Davis Stories of Change: Narrative and Social Movements (2002) SUNY Press
David Maines The Faultline of Consciousness (2001). Part 3 Narrative Sociology. Aldine
Rita Charon Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness (2006) Oxford
Arthur Frank The Wounded Storyteller: Body Illness and Ethics, 1997 Chicago
Arthur Frank Letting Stories Breathe (2010) Chicago
Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce &
Barbara Laslett Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History (2008) Cornell University
Christine Bold Using Narrative in Research 2011 Sage
Kathleen Wells Narrative Inquiry , 2011, OUP
On Narrative
As with all these topics, there is massive amounts of writing. A nice concise introduction is:
H.Porter Abbott The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative (2nd edition 2008) Cambridge
And see also for short discussions of key issues:
David Herman, Manfred Jahn & Marie-Laure Ryan eds Routledge Encyclopeadia of Narrative Theory. (2005) Routledge
Also:
Gerard Genette Narrative Discourse Revisited (1988) Cornell
D. Jean Clandinin & F.
Michael Connelly Narrative inquiry: Experience and Story in Qualitative Research (2007) Sage
Paul Ricoeur Time and Narrative (1990) Chicago
Richard Rorty Contingency, Irony & Soldiarity (1989) Cambridge
Contrasting strategies of qualitative and narrative analysis:
Jane Elliott Using Narrative in Social Research (2005) Sage
Catherine Kohler Reisman Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences (2007) Sage
Jaber Gubrium &
James Holstein Analyzing narrative reality (2008) Oxford.
Bruner, Jerome ‘ Life as narrative’ Social Research, (1987) 54 (1): 11-32.
McAdams, D. (1993) The Stories We Live By (1993). New York: Guildford Press
Sidonie Smith & Julia Watson Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives 2001 Minnesota
Molly Andrews and
Corrine Squires Doing narrative Research (2008) Sage
Cathy Charmaz Constructing Grounded Theory (2006) Sage
John Lofland, David Snow,
Leon Anderson & Lyn H.LoflandAnalyzing Social Settings (2006) 4th ed
Adele Clarke Situational Analysis: Ground theory after the Postmodern Turn (2005 Sage )
Wendy Hollway &
Tony Jefferson Doing qualitative research differently: free association, narrative and the interview method (2000) Sage (psycho-analysis)
Jonathan Smith,
Michael Larkin and
Paul Flowers Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (ISA) (2008) (psychological and phenomenological)
Ruth Wodak &
Michael Meyer eds Methods for Critical Discourse Analysis (2007 2nd ed) Sage
Norman Fairclough Critical Discourse Analysis (2010) Longman
Prue Chamberlayne,
Joanna Bornat &
Tom Wengraf The Turn to Biographical Methods in Social Sciences (2001)
Martin W.Bauer & George Kaskell Qualitative Researching with text, image and sound: A Practical Handbook (2000) Sage
Literary and textual analysis
Aristotle Poetics (Penguin Classics; Kindle)
John Sutherland 50 Literary Ideas 2010 Quercus
Michael Ryan Literary Theory: 2nd edition 2007 Wiley
See more specifically:
Vladamir Propp The Morphology of the Folk Tale Rev ed 1968 Texas
Michael Tierno Aristotle’s Poetics for Screenwriters 2002 Hyperion
Elsbree Langtree The Rituals of Life: Patterns of Narratives 1982
Chistopher Booker The Seven Basic Plots: why we tell stories (2004) Continuum
Social change, generations, memories.
Julie McLeod &
Rachel Thompson Researching Social Change (2009) Sage
June Edmunds and
Bryan S. Turner eds Generational Consciousness, Narrative and Politics (2002) Rowman and Littlefield
Karl Mannheim ‘The problem of generations’ in P. Keksmeti ed Essays in the sociology of knowledge p276-323 (1952) Routledge
Daniel Bertaux &
Paul Thompson eds Between generations: family models, myths and memories (1993) Transaction
Julia Brannan, P.Moss
& A. Monney Working and caring over the twentieth century (2004) Palgrave
June Edmunds &
Bryan Turner Generations, culture and society (2002) Open University
Maurice Halbwachs On Collective Memory (1992) Chicago
G.J.Ashworth et al Pluralising Pasts: Heritage, Identity and Place in Multicultural Societies. (2007) Pluto
G. Rosenthal The Holocaust in three generations: families and perpetrators of the Nazi regime (1998) Casells
Jose van Dijck Mediated Memories in the Digital Age (2007) Stanford
Paul Ricoeur Memory, History, Forgetting (2006) University of Chicago
CREATING NARRATIVES: THE CASE OF WRITING SOCIAL SCIENCE NARRATIVES
Writing Social Science
Paul Atkinson The Ethnographic Imagination Routledge (1990)
Howard S Becker Writing for Social Scientists Chicago (1986)
James Clifford & G E Marcus Writing Culture: The Poetics and politics of Ethnography (1986) University of California
John Van Maanen Tales of the field: On writing ethnography (1988) Chicago
Laurel Richardson Writing strategies: Reaching diverse audience (1990) Sage
H.L. Goodall Writing Qualitative Inquiry: Self, Stories and Academic Life (2008) Left Coast Press
Challenging the Orthodox Social Science Narrative
Ben Agger Public Sociology (2000) Rowman and Littlefield
Norman Denzin (2004) Performance Ethnography Sage
Richard Schechner Performance Studies 2nd ed 2002/7 Routledge
Margery Wolf, M (1992) A Thrice Told Tale: Feminism, Postmodernism and Ethnographic Responsibility. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Carolyn Ellis and Art Bochner (1996) Composing Ethnography: Alternative forms of qualitative writing Alta Mira
Anna Franks & Stephen Banks (1998) Fiction and Social Research: By Ice or Fire Alta Mira
Ronald Berger & Richard Quinney Storytelling Sociology: Narrative as Social Inquiry 2005: Lynne Rinner
The Reflexivity Turn
Pierre Bourdieu, P. & L. Wacquant (1992) An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology. University of Chicago Press.
Amanda Coffey (1999) The Ethnographic Self: Fieldwork and the Representation of Identity. London: Sage.
Hertz, R (ed). (1997). Reflexivity and Voice. London: Sage
Etherington, Kim (2004) Becoming a Reflexive Researcher: Using our selves in research (2004) Jessica Kingsley
Barry Glassner, B. & Hertz, R. eds (1999) Qualitative Sociology as Everyday Life. London: Sage
Carol Rambo Ronai, (1992) ’ A Reflexive Self Through Narrative: A Night in the Life of an Erotic Dancer’’, in Ellis and Flaherty, Investigating Subjectivity (1992) op cit Ch 5
Michael Hemmington Auto/Ethnographies: Sex & Death and Symbolic Interaction in the Eighth Moment of Qualitative Inquiry. 2009 Borgo Press
The Digital Turn
John Hartley & Kelly McWilliam Story Circle: Digital Storytelling around the world (2009) Wiley
Bryan Alexander The New Digital Storytelling: Creating Narratives with New Media (2011) Praeger
Joe Lambert (2013) Digital storytelling (2012 4th edition) Routledge
THE SOCIAL ROLES OF NARRATIVES AND STORIES
Stories as personal – Narrative Psychology and the Stories We Live By
Dan P Mcadams The Stories we live By: Personal Myths and the Making of the Self (1993); and see his other books like The Redemptive Self , 2006 ; Power, Intimacy and the Life Story, 1988; as well as web site for the Center he directs at The Foley Centre, http://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/foley/
Jerome Bruner Making Stories: Law, Literature, Life (2002) Harvard
———— Actual minds, possible worlds (1986) Harvard
——— Acts of Meaning (1990) Harvard
Jaber Gubrium and James A Holstein The self we live by (2001) Oxford
See also the work of the late Miller Mair at
http://www.oikos.org/mairworld.htm
And you may like to contrast all this with the more formal and critical sociological approach of books like
Nikolas Rose Inventing Our Selves: Psychology, Power and Personhood (1998) Sage
Narratives and Stories as therapy
Arthur Frank The Wounded Story Teller (1997) Chicago
Arthur Kleinman The Illness Narratives (1989) Basic
Hilde Lindemann Nelson Damaged identities: Narrative repair (2001) Cornell
John McLeod (1997) Narrative and Psychotherapy Sage
Faye Ginsburg Disrupted Lives: how people create meaning out of chaotic lives (1999) California
D. Spence Narrative truth and historical truth: meaning and interpretation in psychoanalysis (1982) Norton
Oliver Sachs The man who mistook his wife for a hat ((1985) Duckworth
Michael White Maps of Narrative Practice (2007) Norton
Narratives and Stories as Moral Imagination: Narrative Ethics and Grounded Moralities
Arendt, Hannah The Human Condition ( 1958)
Coles, Robert (1989) The Call of Stories : Teaching and the Moral Imagination. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
———– (2010) Handing One Another Along: Literature and Social Reflection. NY: Random House
Eakin, Paul John ed (2004) The Ethics of Life Writing Cornell University Press
Frank, Arthur W. (2004) The Renewal of Generosity: Illness, Medicine and How to Live. Chicago
———– (2010) Letting Stories Breathe. Chicago
Himmelfarb, Gertrude (2006) The Moral Imagination: From Burke to Trilling. London:Souvenir
Lara, Maria P (1998) Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere. Cambridge: Polity
MacIntyre, Alastair (1984) After Virtue: A Study in Moral Reasoning. Oxford
Noblit, George W. & Van O Dempsey The social construction of virtue: the moral life of schools (1996) SUNY.
Nelson, Hilde Lindemann ed (1997) Stories and their limits: Narrative approaches to bioethics. Routledge
————-(2001) Damaged Identities , Narrative Repair. Cornell UP.
Nussbaum, Martha (1997) Cultivating Humanity. (1997) Harvard
Plummer, Ken (2003) Intimate Citizenship (2003) Ch 7: “Stories and the Grounded Moralities of Everyday Life”.
Plummer, Ken (1999) ‘The ‘ethnographic society’ at century’s end: clarifying the role of public ethnography’, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 28 (6).
Rorty, Richard (1989) Contingency, Irony, Solidarity. Cambridge
Witherell, C. & N.Noddings eds. (1991) Stories Lives Tell: Narrative and Dialogue in Education. New York: Teacher’s College, Columbia University.
Narratives and Counter stories as Politics and Global/Glocal
Kay Schafer & Sidonie Smith Human Rights and Narrated Lives (2004) Palgrave
Ken Plummer Intimate Citizenship (2003) esp Ch 7 University of Washington
Molly Andrews Shaping history: Narratives of political change (2007) Cambridge
Charles Tilly Stories, identities and political change ( (2002) Rowman & Littlefield
Michael Jackson The Politics of storytelling (2002) Museum Tusculanum Press
Francesca Poletta It was like a fever: storytyelling in protest and politics (2006) Chicago
Arthur Kleinman Writing at the edge: discourse between anthropology and medicine (1995) California
Rickie Sollinger et al Telling stories to change the world (2008) Routledge
Joseph Davis Stories of Change: Narrative and social movements (2002) SUNY
Nick Couldry Why Voice Matters: Culture & Politics after Neoliberalism (2010) Sage
VISIONS OF A BETTER WORLD: DEBATES ON SOCIAL JUSTICE, HUMAN FLOURISHING AND COSMOPOLITAN DIALOGUES
Kay Schafer and Sidonie Smith Human rights and Narrated Lives: The ethics of recognition (2004) Palgrave
Ken Plummer Intimate Citizenship: Private Decisions and Public Dialogues (2003)Washington
Human Rights
Fagan, Andrew The Atlas of Human Rights 2010 Myriad
Morris, Lydia ed Rights: Sociological Perspectives 2006 Routledge
Freeman, Michael Human Rights 2002 Polity
Ishay, M.R. (2004) The History of Human Rights: From ancient times to the globalization era, California: California University Press
Ishay, Micheline R ed The Human Rights Reader ( 2nd ed 2007 Routledge)
Lukes, Steven ‘Five Fables About Human Rights’ in On Human Rights ed Stephen Shute and Susan Huxley (1993: Oxford)
Central Values Debates
Amartya Sen The Idea of Justice (2009) Allen Lane.
Michael Sandel Justice: What’s the right thing to do? (2007/2009) Penguin
Iris Marion Young Justice and the politics of difference (1990) Princeton
Nancy Fraser ‘From Redistribution to Recognition: Dilemmas of Justice in a ‘Post-socialist’ Age’. in Nancy Fraser. Justice Interruptus (1997: Chapter 1)
———— The Scales of Justice
Sam Harris The Moral Landscape:How Science Can Determine Human Values (2011) Bantham.
Lukes, Steven Moral Relativism 2008 Profile
Peter Singer Writings on an Ethical Life (2000) Harper Collins
Ronld Dworkin Justice for Hedgehogs (2011)
Dialogic Ethics, Communication Ethics and Multiculturalism
Taylor, Charles et al Multiculturalism: Examining the politics of recognition (1994) Princeton
Frank, Arthur Letting Stories Breathe: A Socio-Narratology (2010)
Bakhtin, Michel The Dialogic Imagination
Arendt , Hannah The Human Condition
Habermas, Jurgen Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action (1992) Polity
Ronald C.Arnett et al Communication, Ethics, Literacy: Dialogue and Difference. (2009) Sage
Benhabib, Seyla The Claims of Culture: Equality and diversity in the global era (2002) Princeton
Susan Moller Okin ed Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? (1999)
Zygmunt Bauman Postmodern Ethics (1999) Blackwell
Lois McNay Against Recognition (2008) Polity
Kwame Anthony Appiah The Ethics of Identity (2007) Princeton
Research Ethics
Mark Israel & Iain Hay Ethics for Social Sciences (2006) Sage
Ken Plummer Documents of Life (2001) Sage Ch 10
Roisin Ryan-Flood &
Rosalind Gill Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process (2010) Routledge
Clifford G.Christians ‘Ethics and Politics in Qualitative Research’ (2011) in Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research ed by N Denzin & Y S Lincoln 2011 Ch 4 p p61-80
Martin Johnson Research Ethics in the Real World (2006) Elsevier
Human Capabilities & The work of Martha Nussbaum
On capabilities
Martha Nussbaum Creating Capabilities: the Human Development Approach (2011) Harvard)
Special issues of the journal Signs: Globalization and Gender, Vol 26, No 4 (2001)
Martha Nussbaum Women and human development (2000) Cambridge. Chapter1
Martha Bussbaum Sex and social justice (1999) Oxford Chapter 1
Amrita Chhachhi & Howard Nicholas “Forum 2006”, in Development and Change (2006) Vol 37, No6 especially article by Nussbaum who replies to the debates.
For an interview with her, see Conversations with History: Martha Nussbaum on the Youtube at
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy3YTzYjut4
and for a textbook on the whole tradition, see:
Sevrine Deneulin et al An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach: Freedom and Agency (2009) Earthscan
On cosmopolitanism
Mitchell Aboulafia The Cosmopolitan Self: Gerorge Hebert Mead and continental philosophy (2001) Illinois
Kwame Anthony Appiah Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (2006)
Bob Fine Cosmopolitanism (2008) Routledge
Robert J.Holton Cosmopolitans (2009) Palgrave
Gerard Delanty The Cosmopolitan Imagination (2009) Cambridge
Being Good
Sarah Bakewell How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer (2009) Chatto and Windus
Simon Blackburn Being Good: short introduction to ethics (2001) Oxford
A.C.Grayling The Good Book (2011)
———— The Choice of Hercules (2007) Weidenfeld
Terry Eagleton The Meaning of Life (2007) Oxford University Press
Damien Keown Buddhist Ethics (2005) Routledge
THEORY: CRITICAL HUMANISM AND SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM
Symbolic Interaction Methodologies
Herbert Blumer Symbolic Interactionism (1969) Prentice
Cathy Charmaz Constructing Grounded Theory (2006) Sage
Norman Denzin The Research Act (orig. 1971: reprint 2009) Aldine
Norman Denzin &
Yvonna Lincoln eds Handbook of Qualitative Research (various editions) Sage
John Lofland, David Snow,
Leon Anderson & Lyn
H.Lofland Analyzing Social Settings (2006) 4th ed
Jaber Gubrium & James Holstein Analyzing Narrative Reality (2009) Sage
Adele Clarke Situational Analysis: Ground theory after the Postmodern Turn (2005 Sage )
Robert Prus Symbolic Interaction & Ethnographic Research: Intersubjectivity and the Study of Human Lived Experience (1996) SUNY
Critical Humanism
I suppose my own major statement of what I mean by this term is still to be found in the appendix of Documents of Life-2 ( 2001). Look also at:
Richard Rorty ‘The Humanist Intellectual: Eleven Theses’ In Richard Rorty Philosophy and Social Hope (1999) Penguin
Jerome Kagan The Three Cultures 2009 Cambridge
Robert Coles Handling One Another Along: Literature and Social Reflection – On Character, Courage and Compassion (2010) Random House.
Ian Wilkinson Suffering: A Sociological Introduction (2005) Polity
Daniel Liechty The Ernest Becker Reader (2005) Washington
Pauline Johnson Feminism as radical Humanism (1994) Sydney
Alan Finkielkraut In the name of humanity (2001) Pimlico
Martin Halliwell & Andy Mousley Critical humanisms (2003) Edinburgh
Jeff Noonan Critical humanism and the politics of difference (2003) McGill
Early Sociological Sources
C.Wright Mills The Sociological Imagination (1961) Oxford
Peter Berger Invitation to Sociology (1963) Peguin
Alfred McLung Lee Sociology for whom (1978) Oxford
Alfred McLung Lee Toward Humanist Sociology (1973) Prentice
Alfred McLung Lee Sociology for People (1988) Syracuse
Short introductions to humanism ( but NOT Critical humanism)
Tony Davies Humanism (1997) Routledge
Richard Norman On Humanism (2004) Routledge
Margaret Knight ed Humanist Anthology ( (1961/2005) Rationalist Press Association
Nichols Walter Humanism: What’s in the Word ?(1997) Rationalist Press Association
A.C.Grayling The Choice of Hercules (2008) Weidenfeld and Nicolson
A few interesting studies
NB These authors may not call themselves critical humanists, but their work meets my criteria!
Stanley Cohen States of denial: knowing about atrocities and suffering (2001) Polity
Nancy Scheper-Hughes Death without weeping: the violence of everyday life in Brazil (1992) University of California Press
Arthur Kleinmann What Really Matters: Living a moral life amidst uncertainty and danger ( 2006) Oxford
Arthur Frank The Wounded Story Teller: Body, illness and ethics (1995) Chicago
Martha Nussbaum Sex and social justice (2000) Oxford.
A SMALL SELECTION OF EXAMPLES OF NARRATIVE VARIETY
Biography and life story
Brian Roberts Biographical Research (2002) Open University
Sidonie Smith & Julia Watson (2001) Reading Autobiography: A guide for interpreting life narrative Minnesota
Charlotte Linde Life Story: The Creation of coherence (1993) Oxford
Robert Atkinson The Life Story Interview (1998) Sage
Norman Denzin Interpretive Biography (1989) Sage
Dan Goodley et al Researching life stories (2004) Routledge
Pru Chamberlayne et al The turn to biographical methods in social science (2000) Routledge
Carol Smart Personal Life (2007) Polity
Cohorts and Life Development
Leonie Sugarman Life Span Development 2nd ed 2001 Taylor and Francis
Sheila Anderson et al Inventing Adulthood: A Biographical Approach to Youth Transitions (2006) Sage
Philip L.Hamack & Bertram J.Cohler The Story of Sexual Identity: Narrative Perspectives on the Gay and Lesbian Life Course (2009) Oxford
Two classics of the Life Story.
W.I.Thomas and F.Znaniecki The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (1919-21) Dover
Clifford Shaw The Jack Roller: A Delinquent Boy’s Own Story (1966ed) Chicago Press
Practical story telling there are a lot of books like this: here is the smallest of variety
Judith Barrington Writing the Memoir 2nd ed 2002 Eight Mountain Press
Lois King How to write your own life story 4th ed 1997 Chicago Review Press
Faith Gibson Reminiscence and Life Story Work 4th ed 2011 Jessica Kinglsey
Sophie Gibson How to write your life story in 10 easy steps ( 2010) How to books
Christinea Baldwin Storycatcher: Making sense of our lives through the power of story 2005 New World Library, California
Auto/ethnography
Special issue: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (Vol 35 No 4, August 2006)
Carolyn Ellis Final Negotiations: A story of love, loss and chronic illness Temple (1995)
Ellis, Carolyn. The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 2004.
Carolyn Ellis & Art Bochner Composing ethnography 1996 Alta Visa
Coffey, P. (1999). The ethnographic self. London: Sage.
Kriger, Susan (1996) The Family Silver: Essays on Relationships among women. University of California Press ( see also her The Mirror Dance – on lesbian life).
Carol Rambo Ronai…‘A night in the life of a dancer/research: a layered account’ in Carolyn Ellis and Michael Flaherty Investigating subjectivity p102-24
——Multiple reflections of child sex abuse: an argument for a layered account Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 23: 395-426
—–My mother is mentally retarded in Ellis and Bochner op cit Composing Ethnography (above) p109- 131
Stacy Holman Jones “Autoethnography: Making the Personal Political” in Denzin and
Lincoln, Handbook 3rd edition 2005 p 763-91
Heween Chang Autoethnography as method (2008) Left Coast Press
Michael Hemmingson Auto/Ethnographies (2009) The Borgo Press
See also the work of Andrew Sparkes via his website and journal. Search:
Andrew Sparkes , Qualitative Research Unit, and sshs.exeter.ac.uk/textdocs/QRU%20slides.ppt
Photographic Narratives in Sociology
Theory and method
Pierre Bourdieu Photography: A middle brow Art Polity (1990)
Terry Barrett, 2005 Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images. Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Co., 4th edition.
Liz Wells, 2004 3rd edition Photography: A Critical Introduction
Richard Howells Visual Culture (2003)
Howard Becker, 1995. “Visual sociology, documentary photography, and photojournalism: it’s (almost) all a matter of context.” Visual Sociology 10: 1/2: 5-14.
bell hooks, 1995. “In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life”, in bell hooks, Art on My Mind: Visual Politics. New York: New Press, pp. 54-64.
Gillian Rose Visual Methodologies (2009 2nd ed) Sage
Exemplars
Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange (2001) Phaedra
Nardo, Don Migrant Mother: How a photograph defined the great depression (2011) Capstone
Linda Gordon Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits 2009 WW Norton
Douglas Harper, 1988. “Visual Sociology: Expanding Sociological Vision”, The American Sociologist, Spring, pp. 54-70. And see also his: Douglas Harper Good Company (and his web site) – and samples of his work:
with Caroline Knowlees Hong Kong: Migrant Lives, Landscapes and Journeys (2009) Chicago
and Patrizia Faccioli The Italian Way: Food and Social Life (2009) Chicago
Cathy Greenblat Alive with Alzheimer’s (2000) ( a book which you can also find sample from at http://www.cathygreenblat.com/category.cfm?nL=0&nS=9;
Her forthcoming work is: Life, Laughter and Love
Dianne Hagaman Howie Feeds Me can be accessed free via http://home.earthlink.net/~dhagaman/ and her book is How I learned not to be a photojournalist
Kevin Bales et al Documenting Disposable People (2009) Hayward Publishing
Documentary film narrative
Paul Ward Documentary: The Margins of Reality (2005) Wallflower: short introduction
Sharon R.Sherman Documenting ourselves: film, video and culture (1998) Kentucky
Robert Coles Doing Documentary Work (1997) NYPL/Oxford
Alexandra Juhasz AIDS TV: Identity, Community and Alternative Video (1995) Duke
Digital narratives
Ruth Page and Bronwen
Thomas eds New Narratives: Stories and Story Telling in the Digital Age (2011) Nebraska
Robert V.Kozinets Netnography: Doing ethnographic research online. (2010) Sage
Tom Boellstorff Coming of age in second life (2008) Princeton
Jill Walker Rettbers Blogging (2009) Polity
Gregg Meyers The Discourse of Blogs and Wikis (2009) Continuum
Claire Hewson et al Internet Research Methods (2003) Sage
Maria Bakardijieva Internet Society: The Internet in Everyday Life (2005) Sage
Nicholas Hookway ‘Entering the Blogosphere’ Qualitative Research (2008) Vol 8 No 1 p91-113
Narrative Medicine
Arthur Kleinmann. The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing And the Human Condition ((1988) Basic Books – the front runner book. Deeply influential, and he has published a lot more
Howard S.Brody Stories of Sickness. Oxford University Press (2003, 2nd edition).
G.Thomas Couser Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability and Life writing (1997)University of Wisconsin Press.
Arthur W Frank The Wounded Story Teller: Body Illness and ethics (1995) Chicago
Arthur W Frank The Renewal of Generosity: Illness, Medicine and How to Live (2004) Chicago
Rita Charon. Narrative Medicine: Honoring the stories of illness (2006) Oxford.
‘Social ‘ Classics of Narrative Medicine
Julius Roth Timetables: Structuring the passage of time in hospital treatments and other careers Bobbs Merrill (1963)
Irving Zola Missing Pieces Temple University Press (1982)
Arthur W.Frank At the will of the body: Reflections on illness Houghton Mifflin 2002
Ann Oakley Fracture: Adventures of a Broken Body Polity (2007)
4 OTHER RESOURCES
Some key qualitative journals (Often exceedingly dull – unless you find a topic that interests you!)
Auto/Biography Studies
Auto/Biography Annual Review
Biography
Ethnography
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
Life Writing
Forum: Qualitative Social Research
Qualitative Research
Qualitative Sociology
Qualitative Inquiry
International Journal of Qualitative Research
Qualitative Health Research
Discourse Studies
….. but there are many others
Some centres and websites
International Auto/Biography Association http://www.theiaba.org/
Centre for Narrative (University of East London) http://www.uel.ac.uk/cnr/
Centre for Qualitative Research (University of Bournemouth) http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/cqr/
Qualitative Research Unit (University of Exeter)
BSA Auto/Biography Group: access via British Sociological Association http://www.britsoc.co.uk/specialisms/autobiography.htm
Kip Jones Performative Social Science: Kip’s World: http://www.kipworld.net/
Sage Research Methods On Line
See also the project: Writing Across Boundaries.
This is a project which gets various social scientists who have published quite a bit to reflect on the nature of their writing. It includes pieces by Howard Becker, Harvey Molotch, Marilyn Strathborn and Liz Stanley, myself and many others: see
http://www.dur.ac.uk/writingacrossboundaries
On this website you will also find resources relating to a variety of themes that engage writers in the social sciences. These include and Drafting and Plotting, the Data-Theory Relationship, Narrative, Rhetoric, and Representation and Hints and Tips on Writing.
Ken Plummer January 2013