We focus on four major tensions pervading much narrative inquiry to date, tensions that threaten to divide the field into alienated enclaves. Of specific concern are psychological vs. social explanations of narrative, structural vs. process orientations to research, approaches that celebrate experience vs. those that textually deconstruct experience, and accounts that center on singularity of self-narratives vs. incoherent multiplicity. Finally, we open discussion on a relational constructionist account of narrative, with an eye toward reconciling these disparate orientations.
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2013. Writing reflexively to illuminate the meanings in cultural safety. Reflective Practice 14:6 ► pp. 825 ff.
Dowling, Fiona & Robyne Garrett
2016. Narrative inquiry and research on physical activity, sport and health: exploring current tensions. Sport, Education and Society 21:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Kynsilehto, Anitta & Eeva Puumala
2015. Persecution as Experience and Knowledge: The Ontological Dynamics of Asylum Interviews. International Studies Perspectives 16:4 ► pp. 446 ff.
Mannell, Jenevieve, Lida Ahmad & Ayesha Ahmad
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Martikainen, Suvi-Jonna, Laura Kudrna & Paul Dolan
2022. Moments of Meaningfulness and Meaninglessness: A Qualitative Inquiry Into Affective Eudaimonia at Work. Group & Organization Management 47:6 ► pp. 1135 ff.
Pavlovich, Kathryn & Patricia Doyle Corner
2014. Conscious Enterprise Emergence: Shared Value Creation Through Expanded Conscious Awareness. Journal of Business Ethics 121:3 ► pp. 341 ff.
Salmela, Mari & Satu Uusiautti
2017. How to implement the narrative approach in different phases of a positive psychological research? A four-dimensional analysis. International Journal of Research Studies in Psychology 6:1
Varik, Merle, Marju Medar & Kai Saks
2020. Informal caregivers’ experiences of caring for persons with dementia in Estonia: A narrative study. Health & Social Care in the Community 28:2 ► pp. 448 ff.
Zagórska, Wanda
2017. Discovering subjectivity: A subjective world of meanings in the stories of the twilight of life. Polish Psychological Bulletin 48:1 ► pp. 51 ff.
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