scholarly journals Life History and Life Story Research for Nature Conservation Education and Learning through Experiencing Nature

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 1_28-34
Author(s):  
Megumi NODA
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Conservation Education

Fate, Memory, and the Postcolonial Construction of the Self: The Life-Narrative of a Vietnamese Spirit Medium

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten W. Endres
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
The Self ◽  
Life Narrative ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
Dialogic Process ◽  
Multiple Discourses

Life-history and narrative research have a long tradition as insightful methods in anthropology. This article presents the life-story of an elderly Hanoian spirit medium who does not conform to dominant ideals of Vietnamese femininity, exploring how cultural concepts and religious imageries shape female notions of fate and agency. By applying Bakhtin's concept of dialogism, the analysis illustrates how the creative act of self-narrative interweaves with multiple discourses in a dialogic process that tries to make sense of historical contingencies, culturally prescribed ideals, and the lived experiences of the self.

scholarly journals Timeline interviews: A tool for conducting life history research

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne Kirstine Adriansen
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Environmental Context ◽  
Interview Situation ◽  
Analytical Power

The aim of this paper is to explain and discuss timeline interviews as a method for doing life history research. It is a ‘how to’ article explaining the strengths and weaknesses of using a timeline when conducting qualitative interviews. The method allows the interviewee to participate in the reporting of the interview which may give raise to ownership and sharing of the analytical power in the interview situation. Exactly for this reason, it may not be the most appropriate method for interviewing elites or for conducting insider interviews where positionality can be at play. The use of the timeline should not lead the interviewer or the interviewee to assume linearity and coherence; it is an organising principle for the events. It provides an opportunity for linking the story with the wider social, political and environmental context during the interview. While the method is very suitable for life story research, it can also be used for other types of studies where interviews are made.

scholarly journals Can You Hear Me Now? Augmentative Communication, Methodological Empowerment, and the Life Story of Jon Feucht

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Flad ◽  
Ronald J. Berger ◽  
Jon Feucht
Keyword(s):  
Cerebral Palsy ◽  
Life History ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Augmentative Communication ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Communication Device ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Communication Disability

<p>Keywords</p><p>augmentative communication, disability, biography, methodology</p><p>Abstract</p><p>Feminist social research and disability studies converge in arguing for a research methodology undertaken on behalf of and to empower research participants. Our research, an ongoing life history project with Jon Feucht, has been undertaken in this tradition. Throughout much of his life, Jon struggled with a severe speech disability due to cerebral palsy that significantly impaired his ability to communicate verbally with others. After acquiring a sophisticated augmentative communication device, Jon's life changed for the better. In this paper we describe the nature of augmentative communication, share some of Jon's thoughts about augmentative communication and people with disabilities, and explore some of the challenges and opportunities facing researchers collaborating on research projects with individuals who use augmentative communication to speak.</p>

scholarly journals Winners and Losers of the Process of Transformation as an Etic Category versus Emic Biographical Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 238-266
Author(s):  
Kaja Kaźmierska
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Emic Perspective ◽  
The Way

One of the common and schematic descriptions in the perspective of the 1989 breakthrough are two ways of dealing with it by people who are respectively called winners or losers of transformation. These stereotypical characteristics are not only the tool to draw the general image of effects of the transition, but are also based on the specific way of interpretation deeply rooted, for example, in neoliberal thinking. Yet, from the perspective of an individual—so-called Schütz’s man on the street—the categorization of winners and losers not only simplifies the description of social reality, but also it cannot be easily biographically justified because the etic categorization is not always relevant to the emic perspective. In other words, the life history of an individual, showing the main phases and events of biography, and life story—the way that one interprets his/her biographical experiences— may not correspond to each other. The analysis of these two aspects of biography (what is lived through and how it is interpreted) shows how people have dealt with the process of transformation. In the paper, it is presented on the basis of one case study.

scholarly journals Literature Introduction: Nature Conservation Education

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 1_64-73
Author(s):  
Yoshie KAGA ◽  
Yuki ISHIYAMA ◽  
Satoko MARUTANI ◽  
Li XIAOYE ◽  
Megumi NODA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Conservation Education

scholarly journals Analysis: Life history and interactive narratives in the context of the Coronavirus pandemic

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-35
Author(s):  
Gabriel Orlando Quiñones Maldonado
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Interactional Sociolinguistics ◽  
Life Narratives ◽  
Interactive Narratives ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Written Corpus

This article is based on the area of Interactional Sociolinguistics and proposes the analysis of excerpts concerning a life story and interactive narratives in contexts of the Coronavirus pandemic. A first written corpus and a second oral corpus based on life narratives were collected as reference. In this analysis of life stories and interactive narratives in the context of Coronavirus disease we have a discursive sequence that allowed us to evaluate and interpret a tale and several experiences lived in this pandemic time that our planet has faced up to the moment of data collection.

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