In this article, I re-examine Jerome Bruner’s vision of narrative psychology that he laid out over two decades ago. In particular, I argue that narrative inquiry must focus on identities located in sociocultural contexts of transnational movement and migration. The contact of self with multiple forms of otherness — both subtle and violent — play a significant role in identity formation. I discuss two examples from the Somalian and Indian diaspora to show how the study of these fractured, shifting, and hybridized identities provide a very valuable site from which narrative psychology has an opportunity to remake itself as a field that continues to be relevant in a world that is rapidly becoming transnational, diverse, and global.
2022. Constructing Hakka Ethnic Identity Through Narrative Genealogy Writing. SAGE Open 12:1 ► pp. 215824402210799 ff.
Cicognani, Elvira, Christopher C. Sonn, Cinzia Albanesi & Bruna Zani
2018. Acculturation, social exclusion and resistance: Experiences of young Moroccans in Italy. International Journal of Intercultural Relations 66 ► pp. 108 ff.
Head, James Christopher
2022. Waves of Information, Suffocated Understanding, and the Place for Narrative Inquiry in the “Post-Truth” Era. Journal of Constructivist Psychology 35:2 ► pp. 491 ff.
Sears, Jeanelle S., Lesley Harris & Thomas Lawson
2022. Doing Place: A context specific framework for sustaining commitments in Appalachian Kentucky. Journal of Community Practice 30:2 ► pp. 109 ff.
Simmons, Nathaniel & Yea-Wen Chen
2014. Using Six-word Memoirs to Increase Cultural Identity Awareness. Communication Teacher 28:1 ► pp. 20 ff.
Sinding, Christina & Yanqiu Rachel Zhou
2017. Intimacy, identity and relationship in the accounts of Chinese immigrants to Canada: the contribution of narrative analysis. Culture, Health & Sexuality 19:6 ► pp. 653 ff.
Sonn, Christopher C., Amy F. Quayle & Pilar Kasat
2022. Accompanying Aboriginal Communities Through Arts and Cultural Practice: Decolonial Enactments of Place-Based Community Research. In Decolonial Enactments in Community Psychology [Community Psychology, ], ► pp. 99 ff.
Trahar, Sheila
2013. Contemporary Methodological Diversity in European Higher Education Research. European Educational Research Journal 12:3 ► pp. 301 ff.
Wei, Ge
2023. Children’s Agency during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China. In Agency and Transformation, ► pp. 336 ff.
Yamagata-Lynch, Lisa C., Jaewoo Do, Deepa Deshpande, Anne L. Skutnik, Brenda K. Murphy & Erin Garty
2017. Narrative Inquiry With Activity Systems. International Journal of Qualitative Methods 16:1 ► pp. 160940691770435 ff.
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