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Lines of narrative.
The uses of narrative : Molly Andrews...[et al.], editors.
p. cm.(Memory and narrative series)
Originally published: Lines of narrative. London ; New York : Routledge,
2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7658-0816-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Social psychologyMethodology. 2. SociologyBiographical methods.
I. Andrews, Molly. II. Title. III. Memory and narrrative.
HM1011.L56L56 2004
302.01dc22
2004044922
ISBN 13: 978-0-7658-0816-5 (pbk)
Contents
by Norman K. Denzin
MOLLY ANDREWS, SHELLEY DAY SCLATER, MICHAEL RUSTIN, CORINNE SQUIRE AND AMAL TREACHER
PART I
Narrative and culture
CORINNE SQUIRE
RONALD JACOBS
CLIVE SEALE
SUZANNA DANUTA WALTERS
IAN CRAIB
PART II
Narrative and life history
MOLLY ANDREWS
MARK FREEMAN
ZDENEK KONOPASEK WITH MOLLY ANDREWS
CAROL WOLKOWITZ
TOM WENGRAF
PART III
Narrative and discourse
SHELLEY DAY SCLATER
WENDY HOLLWAY AND TONY JEFFERSON
HELEN MALSON
MARION V SMITH
JACKIE ABELL, ELIZABETH H STOKOE AND MICHAEL BILLIG
PHIL BRADBURY AND SHELLEY DAY SCLATER
Jackie Abell is a Research Associate at Lancaster University. Her current research interests include the study of national identity in the context of constitutional change in Britain, and the discursive analytic investigation of nationalism in the political and media debates surrounding the BSE crisis.
Molly Andrews is Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London. Her research interests include the psychological basis of political commitment, psychological challenges posed by societies in political transition, and gender and ageing. She is the author of Lifetimes of Commitment: Aging, Politics, Psychology (Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Michael Billig is Professor of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. He has been awarded the Erik Erikson Prize for distinguished contribution to Political Psychology. His books include Fascists: A Social Psychological Analysis of the National Front (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978), Ideology and Social Psychology (Blackwell, 1982), Arguing and Thinking: A Rhetorical Approach to Social Psychology (Cambridge University Press, 1987), Ideological Dilemmas (Sage, 1988), Ideology and Opinions: Studies in Rhetorical Psychology, Talking of the Royal Family (Routledge, 1992), and Banal Nationalism (Sage, 1995).
Phil Bradbury is a Principal Lecturer at the University of East London, where he is Course Tutor for the Psychosocial Studies Honours degree. He teaches research methods, and provides training in the use of life history methods of research. He has used narrative methods in curriculum evaluation, in educational research and, latterly, in research into the governance of schools. His recent research appears in Education Today and Rising East: The Journal of East London Studies.
Ian Craib is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex and a group analytic psychotherapist. His books include The Importance of Disappointment (Routledge, 1994).
Shelley Day Sclater is Reader in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London. Formerly a family lawyer, she has recently completed an ESRC-funded study of divorce, using a narrative approach. She is the author of Divorce: A Psychosocial Study (Ashgate, 1999) and Access to Sociology: Families (Hodder and Stoughton, 2000), and co-editor of Undercurrents of Divorce (with Christine Piper; Dartmouth, 1999) and What Is a Parent? A Socio-legal Perspective (with Andrew Bainham and Martin Richards; Hart, 1999).
Norman K. Denzin is a Distinguished Professor of Communications, a College of Communications scholar and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology and Humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of numerous books including The Alcoholic Self (Sage, 1987), which won the Charles Cooley Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction in 1988, The Recovering Alcoholic (Sage, 1987), Interpretive Interactionism (Sage, 1989), The Research Act: A Theoretical Introduction to to Sociological Methods (Prentice Hall, 1989), Hollywood Shot by Shot: Alcoholism in American Cinema (A. de Gruyter, 1991), Images of Postmodern Society: Social Theory and Contemporary Cinema (Sage, 1991), The Cinematic Society: The Voyeurs Gaze (Sage, 1995) and Interpretive Ethnography: Ethnographic Practices for the 21st Century (Sage, 1997). In 1997 he was awarded the George Herbert Mead award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. He is the editor of The Sociological Quarterly, co-editor of Qualitative Inquiry, and series editor of Cultural Studies: A Research Annual and Studies in Symbolic Interactionism.
Mark Freeman is Professor of Psychology at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is the author of Finding the Muse: A Sociopsychological Inquiry into the Conditions of Artistic Creativity (Cambridge University Press, 1993), Rewriting the Self: History, Memory, Narrative (Routledge, 1993) and numerous articles on the self, autobiographical narrative and the psychology of art.
Wendy Hollway