Narrative Research Now

Ashley Barnwell is Senior Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Melbourne.Signe Ravn is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Melbourne.

“An important collection that challenges conventional approaches to narrative and forces us to think about how we might engage with the richness, messiness and power of (not/telling) our and other’s stories.” Jo Woodiwiss, University of Huddersfield

• Foreword – Rachel Thomson1. Narrative Now: Trends and Tensions - Ashley Barnwell and Signe RavnPart 1: Institutional Authority and Counter-Stories2. Telling Stories with Ribbons: Visual Acknowledgment in the Wake of Child Sexual Abuse - Dave McDonald3. Policy Narratives and Policy Change: The Case of Pill Testing - Martin Bortz4. The Criminalised Other as Storyteller: The Promise and Peril of Bringing ‘Lived Experience’ into the Classroom - Diana JohnsPart 2: Tellable and Untellable Stories5. Ethical Weaving: Creative Narrations of Family Trauma and Resilience - Wajeehah Aayeshah6. ‘I can’t believe how much I've done’: Joan and The Evolution of Her Life Story - Nikki HenninghamPart 3: The Ethics of Representation7. Songs as Narratives: Ethical Tensions in Midnight Oil’s Dead Heart (1986) and Gadigal Land (2020) - Liz Dean8. Reading Back as a Way to Give Back? A Narrative Practice-informed Method for Interview-based Research - Sarah Strauven 9. Narrating Women's Life Histories: Voice, Audience, Ethics - Rachael Diprose10. Narrative Next: Ways Forward for Narrative Research - Ashley Barnwell and Signe Ravn