Recounting Huronia Faithfully

Attenuating Our Methodology to the 'Fabulation' ofTruths-Telling

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2408930
AutoresNancy Viva Davis Halifax, David Fancy (0000-0001-7786-936X), Jen Rinaldi, Kate Rossiter (0000-0002-0977-3582), Alex Tigchelaar
Año2018
Volumen18
Número3
Páginas216-227
Fecha de publicación2018-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCulture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1532708617746421
OpenAlexW2777939195
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas12

If telling the truth is considered vital to research methodology, what happens in methodological spaces where 'telling the truth' is futile? In this article, we examine the limitations, possibility, and even desirability of normative forms of empirically verifiable truth-telling and the potentialities for storied or fabulated truths with regard to knowledges that have historically been dismissed by their audiences as unreliable and even deceptive. To do so, we draw from critical theory, and Deleuzian theory in particular, to offer a detailed theoretical framework for understanding the notion of fabulated truth. We then turn to our own research to describe a project that embraced the potential of fabulation as a deeply generative methodological practice in regard to better understanding experiences of trauma. This project, which involved working alongside people with intellectual disabilities who have survived institutional incarceration, used fluid arts-based methods to help engage the affective force of trauma to story multiple truths about an otherwise unspeakable history

Epistemology · Generative grammar · Normative · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Truth telling · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Philosophy