Abstract
Stories are more than they seem. Stories can connect humans with other humans, more-than-human things, animals, places and times. And stories can disrupt dominant ways of knowing and being in the world (Ranco and Haverkamp, 2022). Re-telling stories of connection and disruption in research, this paper shares four short autoethnographic musings, or methodological memories. These are thoughts and events which got stuck (MacRae et al., 2018) during-after ethnographic research of an intergenerational music programme, Rebuilding Bridges. Additionally, to illustrate the un/expected, un/comfortable and un/knowable nature of attempting to do intergenerational research post-qualitatively, fragments of an intergenerational story titled ‘Alfred the Gorilla’, itself curated from storied data, are diffractively (Barad, 2007; 2014) woven into the discussion. These stories as and of data, I suggest, hold promise through their resistance to bounded accounts of the research process, their affective resonances and residues, and their potential for thinking, doing and writing research differently.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education |
| Early online date | 22 Oct 2024 |
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| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 22 Oct 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Research Groups and Themes
- SPS Children and Families Research Centre
Keywords
- intergenerational
- storying
- post-qualitative inquiry
- memory
- autoethnography