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Biographical research may take a range of forms and may vary in its application and approach but has the unified and coherent aim to give voice to individuals. The central concern of this collection is to assemble articles (from sociology, social psychology, education, health, criminology, social gerontology, epidemiology, management, and organizational research) that illustrate the full range of debates, methods and techniques that can be combined under heading biographical research.
Volume 1: Biographical Research: Starting Points, Debates and Approaches explores the different biographical methods currently used while locating these within the history of social science methods.
Volume 2: Biographical Interviews, Oral Histories and Life Narratives focuses on the more established, interview-based, biographical research methods and considers the analytical strategies used for interview-based biographical research
Volume 3: Forms of Life Writing: Letters, Diaries and Auto/Biography considers the value of data contained within letters, diaries and auto/biography and illustrates how this data has been analyzed to reveal biographies and their social context.
Volume 4: Other Documents of Life: Photographs, Cyber Documents and Ephemera focuses on the other human documents and objects, like photographs, cyber-documents (emails, blogs, social networking sites, webpages) and other ephemera (such as official documents) that are used extensively in biographical research.
Two Hours or More Away from Most Things: Re:writing Identities from No Fixed Address
Two Hours or More Away from Most Things: Re:writing Identities from No Fixed Address
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How do we construe and re:construe the (archi)textures of (written) life? What is belonging when identities are temporal and where naming remains elusive or unknown? This article plays writing collaborative writing, deconstructing textual hierarchies between the “main” text body and footnoted text as a means of interrogating ways identities are written/performed. It is inspired by correspondences between the authors, generated in relation to three previous works published in Qualitative Inquiry, James Haywood Rolling, Jr.'s “Messing Around with Identity Constructs: Pursuing a Poststructuralist and Poetic Aesthetic,” “Searching Self-image: Identities to be Self-evident,” and Lace Marie Brogden's “Not Quite Acceptable: Re:Reading my Father in Qualitative Inquiry.” We share correspondences between academics, using spaces created in writing “between friends” while constantly becoming through the re:writing of our identities from no fixed address.
Between Threads
I come to this autobiograph(icall)y writing as continually becoming.1 I come in co-constructing states – “J'ai mes racines dans la prairie” (Lavoie, 1990), I am one rooted in the Prairie, and yet I write myself into being from no fixed address.2 The situatedness of my identities is significant, though it is subject to the same alterations as my identities themselves.3 Richardson (1998) calls this “inherently unstable” (p. 464); I call it life/writing/life. The stories I write are, as Calkins and Harwayne (1991) surmise, my “living between the lines.”
Journal Entry, June 30, 2005
Today it happened. James became James. Another e-mail. Another piece of inspiration.
“I'm wondering … since our writing seems to be falling into sync, maybe
a(n) (inter)textual collaboration of some sort is being birthed. Just a thought. I will try to write a reflective (cor)response to Driven4 in the next month or so …
Lace Marie Brogden
Dear Friend, I write
darkness, walls, echo
how are we produced by the lyric (s)?
sounds
silence
I read your work, brilliant it was
Yoda speaks, write we must
and then
Death called
reverberated
heralded
menaced
claimed
was
What is death's verb?
There has been a weekly replaying of death
And I am caught in its fatigue
My boss lost his younger brother to sudden death
He is reeling, I ache for his loss
danced the understudy
sent flowers
listened
wept
Our faculty lost a beloved member to cancer her husband emeritus of our faculty also
James Haywood Rolling, Jr.
My Dear. Lacing the autobiographical meme and the image of the researcher
we filigree the indices of validity with echoes darkness, walls, reflecting back an instrumental jazz two hours or more apart silence only between refrains
I deflect, in homage to George Lucas, disputed screenwriting sage Yoda speaks, “Do or do not … there is no try.”
and so begins the dance
the response
reaches
releases
the threat
of new names
only
to be born again.
And I, between the lines of your sorrow
pause for you…
Pain for self and for friend
I cried for the loss
grieved next to my
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