VOLUME I
Editor's Introduction: Researching Lives and the Lived Experience
Barbara Harrison
PART ONE: HISTORICAL ORIGINS AND TRAJECTORIES
The Life History and the Scientific Mosaic
H. Becker
Herbert Blumer and the Life History Tradition
Ken Plummer
Pioneering the Life Story Method
Paul Thompson
The Life Story Approach: A Continental View
Daniel Bertaux and Martin Kohli
Four Paradigm Transformations in Oral History
Alistair Thomson
Telling Our Stories: Feminist Debates and the Use of Oral History
Joan Sangster
Writing Autobiography
Bell hooks
The Problem of Other Lives: Social Perspectives on Written Biography
Michael Erben
"Narrative Analysis" Thirty Years Later
Emanuel A. Schegloff
Reflections on the Biographical Turn in Social Science
Michael Rustin
Reflections on the Role of Personal Narratives in Social Science
Camilla Stivers
Digital Life Stories: Auto/Biography in the Information Age
Michael Hardey
Is Oral History Auto/Biography?
Joanna Bornat
Situating Auto/Biography: Biography and Narrative in the Times and Places of Everyday Life
Ian Burkitt
Why Study People's Stories? The Dialogical Ethics of Narrative Analysis
Arthur W. Frank
Narrative Research and the Challenge of Accumulating Knowledge
Ruthellen Josselson
Who's Talking/Who's Talking Back? The Subject of Personal Narrative
Sidonie Smith
What Is the Subject?
Shelley Day Sclater
Reflections on the Narrative Research Approach
Torill Moen
Rescuing Narrative from Qualitative Research
Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont
Life Histories and the Perspective of the Present
Margaretha Järvinen
A Matter of Time: When, since, after Labov and Waletzky
Elliot G. Mishler
Autobiographical Time
Jens Brockmeier
VOLUME I
PART TWO: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN LIFE STORY RESEARCH
A Suitable Time and Place: Speakers' Use of 'Time' to Do Discursive Work in Narratives of Nation and Personal Life
Stephanie Taylor and Margaret Wetherell
Individual Remembering and 'Collective Memory': Theoretical Presuppositions and Contemporary Debates
Anna Green
Creative Memories: Genre, Gender and Language in Latina Autobiographies
Sobeira Latorre
Reading Narratives
Corinne Squire
The Epistolarium: On Theorizing Letters and Correspondences
Liz Stanley
The Narrative Self: Race, Politics, and Culture in Black American Women's Autobiography
Nellie Y. McKay
Personal Narratives, Relational Selves: Residential Histories in the Living and Telling
Jennifer Mason
The Ethnographic Autobiography
Harry F. Wolcott
Analytic Autoethnography
Leon Anderson
Called to Account: The CV as an Autobiographical Practice
Nod Miller and David Morgan
The Personal or 'Lonely Hearts' Advertisement as an Auto/Biographical Practice
Helen Pearce
Writing to the Archive: Mass-Observation as Autobiography
Dorothy Sheridan
Tattoo Narratives: The Intersection of the Body, Self-Identity and Society
Mary Kosut
Reconsidering Performative Autobiography: Life Writing and the Beatles
Kenneth Womack
Glimpses of Street Life: Representing Lived Experience through Short Stories
Marcelo Diversi
Photographic Visions and Narrative Inquiry
Barbara Harrison
Articulate Image, Painted Diary: Frida Kahlo's Autobiographical Interface
Mimi Y. Yang
Venues of Storytelling: The Circulation of Testimony in Human Rights Campaigns
Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith
Generic Subjects: Reading Canadian Death Notices as Life Writing
Laurie McNeill
Narrative Practice and the Coherence of Personal Stories
Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein
VOLUME III
PART THREE: TYPES OF LIFE STORY RESEARCH - TRADITIONAL AND NEW SOURCES OF LIFE STORY DATA
Life "on Holiday"? In Defense of Big Stories
Mark Freeman
Psychoanalytic Narratives: Writing the Self into Contemporary Cultural Phenomena
Ian Parker
Writing the Self versus Writing the Other: Comparing Autobiographical and Life History Data
David R. Maines
Confidantes, Co-Workers and Correspondents: Feminist Discourses of Letter-Writing from 1970 to the Present
Margaretta Jolly
PART FOUR: DOING LIFE STORY RESEARCH
The Makings of Mother in Diary Narratives
Eeva Jokinen
Biography as Microscope or Kaleidoscope: The Case of 'Power' in Hannah Cullwick's Relationship with Arthur Munby
Liz Stanley
Narratives of the Night: The Use of Audio Diaries in Researching Sleep
Jenny Hislop, Sara Arber, Rob Meadows and Sue Venn
Careful What You Ask For: Reconsidering Feminist Epistemology and Autobiographical Narrative in Research on Sexual Identity Development
Lisa M. Diamond
The Biographical-Interpretative Method - Principles and Procedures
Roswitha Breckner
Eliciting Narrative Through the In-Depth Interview
Wendy Holloway and Tony Jefferson
Questioning the Subject in Biographical Interviewing
Jennifer Harding
Constructing Meaningful Lives: Biographical Methods in Research on Migrant Women
Umut Erel
Researching Chinese Women's Lives: 'Insider' Research and Life History Interviewing
Jieyu Liu
Shifting Gears in Life History Research: The Case of an Assimilated American Jewish Woman in Palestine/Israel, 1989-1991
Batya Weinbaum
Telling Lesbian Stories: Interviewing and the Class Dynamics of 'Talk'
Elizabeth McDermott
But Sometimes You're Not Part of the Story: Oral Histories and Ways of Remembering and Telling
Antoinette Errante
Listen to Their Voices: Two Case Studies in the Interpretation of Oral History Interviews
Ron Grele
Loss, Collective Memory and Transcripted Oral Histories
Barry S. Godfrey and Jane C. Richardson
Imaginary Pictures, Real Life Stories: The FotoDialogo Method
Flavia S. Ramos
'Researching Identities with Multi-Method Autobiographies'
Anna Bagnoli
Showing and Telling Asthma: Children Teaching Physicians with Visual Narrative
Michael Rich and Richard Chalfen
VOLUME IV
A Story behind a Story: Developing Strategies for Making Sense of Teacher Narratives
Tansy S. Jessop and Alan J. Penny
Content, Context, Reflexivity and the Qualitative Research Encounter: Telling Stories in the Virtual Realm
Nicola Illingworth
Technobiography: Researching Lives, Online and Off
Helen Kennedy
The Use of Biographical Material in Intellectual History: Writing about Alva and Gunnar Myrdal's Contribution to Sociology
E. Stina Lyon
Tracing Heterotopias: Writing Women Educators in Greece
Maria Tamboukou
PART FIVE: RESEARCH CONTEXTS AND LIFE STORIES
Against Good Advice: Reflections on Conducting Research in a Country Where You Don't Speak the Language
Molly Andrews
Narratives of Challenging Research: Stirring Tales of Politics and Practice
Erica Burman
Ethics and Institutions in Biographical Writing on Indonesian Subjects
David T. Hill
A Note on the Ethical Issues in the Use of Autobiography in Sociological Research
Barbara Harrison and E. Stina Lyon
Exporting Ethics: A Narrative about Narrative Research in South India
Catherine Kohler Riessman
Snippets and Silences: Ethics and Reflexivity in Narratives of Sistering
Melanie Mauthner
Telling Secrets, Revealing Lives: Relational Ethics in Research with Intimate Others
Carolyn Ellis
Collaboration and Censorship in the Oral History Interview
Annmarie Turnbull
Mythical Moments in National and Other Family Histories
Stephan Feuchtwang
Re/Membering (to) Shifting Alignments: Korean Women's Transnational Narratives in US Higher Education
Jeong-eun Rhee
Generational Shifts in Post-Holocaust Australian Jewish Autobiography
Richard Freadman
From Interview to Story: Writing Abbie's Life
Christine Elizabeth Kiesinger
Distressing Histories and Unhappy Interviewing
David W. Jones
Inviting Intimacy: The Interview as Therapeutic Opportunity
Maxine Birch and Tina Miller
The Healing Effects of Storytelling: On the Conditions of Curative Storytelling in the Context of Research and Counseling
Gabriele Rosenthal
Autoethnography and Narratives of Self: Reflections on Criteria in Action
Andrew C. Sparkes
Fidelity as a Criterion for Practicing and Evaluating Narrative Inquiry
Donald Blumenfeld-Jones
Validity Issues in Narrative Research
Donald E. Polkinghorne
