Overview

"What are the building blocks of the new societal architectures after COVID-19? What are the evolving lifestyle patterns, social connections and relationality, and what can biographical research bring to explore these unprecedented societal circumstances? This first book in a new series ""Advances in Biographical Research"" focuses on the place of biographical research in analysing and shaping social futures characterized by physical distancing and isolation, social fragmentation, trauma and vulnerability, including breaks in biographical trajectories. Written by experienced and early career researchers, it demonstrates how biographical research responds to new societal architectures: theoretically and empirically."

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Author:   Tamsin Barber (Oxford Brookes University) ,  Ciara Bradley (Maynooth University) ,  Andre Epp (Karlsruhe University of Education) ,  Jakub Gałęziowski (Instytut Historii Sztuki UW)
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
Imprint:   Policy Press
ISBN:  

9781447368908

ISBN 10:   1447368908
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   23 April 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Overview: Theorising the New Social Futures through the Lens of the Past. Part I Facing the New Turn in Biographical Research: Methodological Adaptations to the New Social Context Chapter 1. Creative Applications of Biographical Research: Time–Space Interactions in Walking Biographical Methods – Maggie O’Neill and Lyudmila Nurse Chapter 2. Touching from a Distance: Gaining Intimacy with Research Participants during the COVID-19 Pandemic – Ana Caetano, Magda Nico, Anabela Pereira and Sónia Bernardo Correia Chapter 3. Collaborative (Auto)ethnography (CAE) for Researching (in) New Social Contexts: Reflections from COVID-19 Lockdown Times in Europe – Lisa Moran and Kateřina Sidiropulu-Janků Chapter 4. Technological Mediation of Biographical Research and Its Risks – Jerzy Stachowiak Part II Creative, Inter-disciplinary and Comparative Approaches Chapter 5. Walking New Horizons for Critically Reflexive Pedagogy and Research- Jerry O’Neill Chapter 6. The ‘New Normal’ for Oral History? Challenge and Opportunities of Interviewing During the Global Pandemic and Its Aftermath – Jakub Gałęziowski Chapter 7. Relations Between Biographical Dispositions and Teaching Strategies of Computer Science Teachers During Lockdown: Application of Triangulation in Biographical Research – Andre Epp Part III the Multidimensionality of Vulnerability and Risk in Biographical Research: Ethics, Vulnerabilities and Trauma Chapter 8. Sharing Biographical Vulnerabilities in the Focus Group Setting: Building Solidarities, De-individualising Racism and Protective Silences-Tamsin Barber and Diana Yeh Chapter 9. Revising the Researcher’s “Borders”: The Narrator Demands Expansion of the Researcher’s “Presence” in Storytelling – Oksana Žabko Chapter 10. – Research Opportunities and Challenges During COVID-19 – The Case of Volunteer Firefighters – Fabienne Seifert (Germany) Chapter 11. Challenging Inequalities with Critical Biographical Research Methods – Ciara Bradley & Lynsey Kavanagh Epilogue: Biographical Futures: Responding to the New Challenges – Lyudmila Nurse, Maggie O’Neill & Lisa Moran

Reviews

“Offering a new lens on the growing literature of biographical research, this book forces us to ask ourselves what living through a pandemic teaches us about exploring the lives of others, especially those who are ‘vulnerable’ and/or ‘at risk’.“ Molly Andrews, Association for Narrative Research and Practice

Author Information

Lyudmila Nurse is Research Director at Oxford XXI think tank. Maggie O'Neill is Professor of Sociology and Criminology at University College Cork. Head of Department and Senior Lecturer at South East Technological University (SETU).

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