Molly Andrews
Biographic Data
| ID | 3645017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Molly Andrews |
| GIVEN NAMES | Molly |
| FAMILY NAME | Andrews |
| SIGNATURE | ANDREWS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 356 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Narrative Research: Research Methods
First published Open Access under a Creative Commons license asWhat is Narrative Research?, this title is now also available as part of the Bloomsbury Research Methods series. Narrative research has become a catchword in the social sciences today, promising new fields of inquiry and creative solutions to persistent problems. This book brings together ideas about narrative from a variety of contexts across the social sciences and synthesizes under…
Haunting memories of the revolution: Hope and despair in East German Lives
This paper uses the arguments set out in Bhekizizwe Peterson’s article “Spectrality and inter-generational black narratives in South Africa” as a framework to explore East German narratives of transformational change over the past 30 years, based on interviews with key anti-state activists. Of particular relevance for the East German case are Peterson’s commentaries on 1) contrasting the ‘limitless hope’ of the revolution with subsequent experien…
Narrative and truth in a world of alternative facts: The moral challenge for education
This article explores the role of educators in our current environment, where truth and truthfulness must fight their corner in a world of ‘alternative facts’. The article opens with a review of the effects of the 24/7 news cycle on our sense of the overall well-being of the world, then discusses the meaning of moral identity and questions whether this is something which can be taught, and moves to a consideration of the role of moral mentors. Th…
Biographical interviews and imagined futures essay writing: Users of two methods in conversation
This article reports on a conversation between users of two research methods, biographical interviews and imagined futures essay writing. A dialogue form is used to discuss these methods and their potential to be combined. The value of comparing research methods is discussed, and then the two methods are described and points of connection and contrast are explored. Although one method emphasises looking back while the other looks forward, the two…
The Narrative Architecture of Political Forgiveness
Although there is widespread agreement with the argument that Hannah Arendt made more than half a century ago, that forgiveness is “one of the human faculties that make social change possible” (Misztal, 2011, p. 201), beyond this, there is little consensus of what it means. Applying a narrative structure to this discussion, there is a lack of clarity around questions of who, what, where, when, and why to forgive. This article will explore the pol…
Imagining the 'baffling geography' of age
Narrative, imagination and extending visions of the possible
Cet article examine pourquoi l’imagination est centrale pour la narration et comment la narration représente une composante vitale de l’imagination. Quel est donc le rôle de l’imagination en nous aidant à « voir autrement », pas seulement entre nous-mêmes et les autres, mais aussi entre nous-mêmes et qui nous pourrions être ou qui nous aurions pu être ? L’article explore la nature située de l’imagination et son rôle critique dans la vie quotidien…
Biographische Sozialisation
Narratives of (In)Security: Nationhood, Culture, Religion, and Gender
The Nice Stasi Man Drove His Trabi to the Nudist Beach
Narrative Imagination and Everyday Life
This book explores how stories and imagination come together in our daily lives, influencing our thoughts not only about what we see and do, but also our contemplation of what is possible and its limitations. Beginning with the premise that stories are central to the way in which individuals and communities negotiate their identities, the book examines different ‘ordinary’ settings in which we construct who we are, and who we are not—central prob…
What is Narrative Research
Narrative research has become a catchword in the social sciences today, promising new fields of inquiry and creative solutions to persistent problems. This book brings together ideas about narrative from a variety of contexts across the social sciences and synthesizes understandings of the field. Rather than focusing on theory, it examines how narrative research is conducted and applied. It operates as a practical introductory guide, basic enough…
Doing Narrative Research
Unexpecting age
The narrative complexity of successful ageing
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue for an archaeological expedition of sorts, to search for and to uncover a host of stories which might assist us in piecing together a framework worth dedicating our future lives to understanding ageing
Never the Last Word: Revisiting Data1
Introduction: What Is Narrative Research?
I live in terror of not being misunderstood (Oscar Wilde, ‘The Critic as Artist’) In the last three decades, narrative has acquired an increasingly high profile in social research
Doing Narrative Research
List of Contributors Introduction: What is Narrative Research? - Maria Tamboukou and Molly Andrews, Corinne Squire Narratives of Events: Labovian Narrative Analysis and its Limitations - Wendy Patterson From Experience-Centred to Socioculturally-Oriented Approaches to Narrative - Corinne Squire Analysing Narrative Contexts - Ann Phoenix A Foucauldian Approach to Narratives - Maria Tamboukou Practising a Rhizomatic Perspective in Narrative Researc…
Shaping History: Narratives of Political Change
Featuring extraordinary personal accounts, this book provides a unique window through which to examine some of the great political changes of our time, and reveals both the potential and the challenge of narrating the political world. Molly Andrews' novel analysis of the relationship between history and biography presents in-depth case studies of four different countries, offers insights into controversial issues such as the explosion of patrioti…
“Pero si no he acabado… Tengo más que contar”: Las limitaciones de las narraciones estructuradas de los testimonios públicos
Persons who submitted applications to give testimony received very clear guidance on where their stories should begin, and where they should end; those who wanted to contextualize their experiences of loss were not allowed a platform to contemplate the wider causes of their suffering. Some who gave testimony before the TRC recalled afterwards the acute pain brought on by the lack of closure which they experienced in this process. Capturing storie…
I. Breaking Down Barriers: Feminism, Politics and Psychology
The article explores the relationship between the three labels of feminist political psychologist from the perspective of the author. It interweaves personal narrative with case studies to illustrate how these three concepts are intricately bound together. In order to pursue research in political psychology gender can not be ignored as a central category in the way social, economic and political life are organized. Furthermore for the author Femi…
Opening to the original contributions: Counter-narratives and the power to oppose
Introduction to the book
Considering Counter-Narratives: Narrating, resisting, making sense
Counter-narratives only make sense in relation to something else, that which they are countering. The very name identifies it as a positional category, in tension with another category. But what is dominant and what is resistant are not, of course, static questions, but rather are forever shifting placements. The discussion of counter-narratives is ultimately a consideration of multiple layers of positioning. The fluidity of these relational cate…
Grand national narratives and the project of truth commissions: A Comparative Analysis
This article will compare the narrative projects of nation building and dismantling as represented in the truth commissions of South Africa and East Germany. One of the most important aspects of truth commissions is that personal suffering on a wide scale is publicly acknowledged and written into the national fabric. The relationship between individual and collective memory is a powerful one; through the testimonies that it has documented, the Tr…
Doing Narrative Research
List of Contributors Introduction: What is Narrative Research? - Maria Tamboukou and Molly Andrews, Corinne Squire Narratives of Events: Labovian Narrative Analysis and its Limitations - Wendy Patterson From Experience-Centred to Socioculturally-Oriented Approaches to Narrative - Corinne Squire Analysing Narrative Contexts - Ann Phoenix A Foucauldian Approach to Narratives - Maria Tamboukou Practising a Rhizomatic Perspective in Narrative Researc…
What is Narrative Research
Narrative research has become a catchword in the social sciences today, promising new fields of inquiry and creative solutions to persistent problems. This book brings together ideas about narrative from a variety of contexts across the social sciences and synthesizes understandings of the field. Rather than focusing on theory, it examines how narrative research is conducted and applied. It operates as a practical introductory guide, basic enough…
The seductiveness of agelessness
In recent years, many researchers in the study of ageing have adopted a terminology of ‘agelessness’. They argue that old age is nothing more than a social construct and that until it is eliminated as a conceptual category, ageism will continue to flourish. This article challenges this view, stating that the current tendency towards ‘agelessness’ is itself a form of ageism, depriving the old of one of their most hard-earned resources: their age. …
Grand national narratives and the project of truth commissions: A Comparative Analysis
This article will compare the narrative projects of nation building and dismantling as represented in the truth commissions of South Africa and East Germany. One of the most important aspects of truth commissions is that personal suffering on a wide scale is publicly acknowledged and written into the national fabric. The relationship between individual and collective memory is a powerful one; through the testimonies that it has documented, the Tr…
Narratives of (In)Security: Nationhood, Culture, Religion, and Gender
Counter-narratives and the power to oppose
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Memories of mother: Counter-narratives of early maternal influence
One of the most dominant cultural narratives is ‘the story of mothering’ but as many researchers have documented, there is a large chasm between this cultural product and individuals’ lived experiences of mothering and being mothered. When individuals talk about their relationships with their mothers, they locate themselves knowingly or not politically, economically, and historically. This article analyses data based on in-depth interviews with f…
Feminist Research with Non-Feminist and Anti-Feminist Women: Meeting the Challenge
Feminist scholars conducting research with non-feminist and anti-feminist women are confronted with a dilemma that is rarely articulated in feminist writing: how can we represent these women's lives as they experience them while at the same time challenging women's oppression? A related dilemma is whether a feminist researcher is justified in describing a woman as a feminist if that term is not one that the woman herself would select. The article…
The narrative complexity of successful ageing
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue for an archaeological expedition of sorts, to search for and to uncover a host of stories which might assist us in piecing together a framework worth dedicating our future lives to understanding ageing
The Politics of Forgiveness
Unexpecting age
Ageful and proud
There is something splendid about the word ageful – a word which I had not encountered before reading Bytheway (2000). Ironically, Bytheway does not share my affection for his invention; rather, for him it seems to have negative connotations, reflected in his comment: ‘as gerontologists we are vulnerable to seeing ourselves and those we study entirely in terms of age: as ageing rather than living individuals: ageful rather than ageless’ (2000: 78…
I. Breaking Down Barriers: Feminism, Politics and Psychology
The article explores the relationship between the three labels of feminist political psychologist from the perspective of the author. It interweaves personal narrative with case studies to illustrate how these three concepts are intricately bound together. In order to pursue research in political psychology gender can not be ignored as a central category in the way social, economic and political life are organized. Furthermore for the author Femi…
Criticism/ Self-Criticism in East Germany: Contradictions Between Theory and Practice
East Germany's revolution has been portrayed in the western media as a popular uprising rejecting the old socialist order and wholeheartedly embracing Western capitalism. This article examines the politics of leaders of the East German citizens' movement who spearheaded these changes in 1989, using data collected with prominent dissidents nearly three years after the opening of the Berlin Wall. The critical intelligentsia of East Germany were uni…
Biographical interviews and imagined futures essay writing: Users of two methods in conversation
This article reports on a conversation between users of two research methods, biographical interviews and imagined futures essay writing. A dialogue form is used to discuss these methods and their potential to be combined. The value of comparing research methods is discussed, and then the two methods are described and points of connection and contrast are explored. Although one method emphasises looking back while the other looks forward, the two…
The Narrative Architecture of Political Forgiveness
Although there is widespread agreement with the argument that Hannah Arendt made more than half a century ago, that forgiveness is “one of the human faculties that make social change possible” (Misztal, 2011, p. 201), beyond this, there is little consensus of what it means. Applying a narrative structure to this discussion, there is a lack of clarity around questions of who, what, where, when, and why to forgive. This article will explore the pol…
Imagining the 'baffling geography' of age
Considering Counter-Narratives: Narrating, resisting, making sense
Counter-narratives only make sense in relation to something else, that which they are countering. The very name identifies it as a positional category, in tension with another category. But what is dominant and what is resistant are not, of course, static questions, but rather are forever shifting placements. The discussion of counter-narratives is ultimately a consideration of multiple layers of positioning. The fluidity of these relational cate…
After the Wall: Germany, the Germans and the Burdens of History
Apple Pie and the Politics of Protest
The Gulf war presented American2 public with compelling images, particularly for those interested in melange of politics and psychology. Many who came to political maturity during Vietnam years regard burning of American flag as symbol par excellence of resistance and protest. But one need only to have attended one of demonstrations against U.S. involvement in Persian Gulf in early months of 1991 to see that, indeed, the times are a-changing. Far…
Lifetimes of Commitment: Ageing, Politics, Psychology
This book is an exploration of the ways in which political belief is developed and sustained throughout the course of a lifetime. Through extensive interviews, it focuses on the lives of fifteen British men and women, aged between seventy and ninety, who have dedicated half a century or longer to working for social change and justice. From Dorothy Greenald's commitment to provision of adequate housing for prisoners' families to Walter Gregory's a…
Lifetimes of commitment: Aging, Politics, Psychology
Apple Pie and the Politics of Protest
The Gulf war presented American2 public with compelling images, particularly for those interested in melange of politics and psychology. Many who came to political maturity during Vietnam years regard burning of American flag as symbol par excellence of resistance and protest. But one need only to have attended one of demonstrations against U.S. involvement in Persian Gulf in early months of 1991 to see that, indeed, the times are a-changing. Far…
Against Good Advice: Reflections on Conducting Research in a Country Where You Don't Speak the Language
In this article the author discusses the challenges and rewards of conducting cross-cultural sociological research in a non-native language. The argument is illustrated through the author's personal experience conducting oral history research in Berlin.
Book notes
The Emergence of East Central European Parliaments: The First Steps edited by Attila Agh. Budapest: Hungarian Centre of Democracy Studies, 1994. Pp.306. NP. ISBN 963 7415 96 3 Nonviolent Struggle and the Revolution in East Germany by Roland Bleiker. Cambridge, MA: The Albert Einstein Institution, 1993. Pp.53. NP. ISBN 880813 07 6 The Russian Press from Brezhnev to Yeltsin: Behind the Paper Curtain by John Murray. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1994. Pp…
After the Wall: Germany, the Germans and the Burdens of History
Criticism/ Self-Criticism in East Germany: Contradictions Between Theory and Practice
East Germany's revolution has been portrayed in the western media as a popular uprising rejecting the old socialist order and wholeheartedly embracing Western capitalism. This article examines the politics of leaders of the East German citizens' movement who spearheaded these changes in 1989, using data collected with prominent dissidents nearly three years after the opening of the Berlin Wall. The critical intelligentsia of East Germany were uni…
The Politics of Forgiveness
The seductiveness of agelessness
In recent years, many researchers in the study of ageing have adopted a terminology of ‘agelessness’. They argue that old age is nothing more than a social construct and that until it is eliminated as a conceptual category, ageism will continue to flourish. This article challenges this view, stating that the current tendency towards ‘agelessness’ is itself a form of ageism, depriving the old of one of their most hard-earned resources: their age. …
Ageful and proud
There is something splendid about the word ageful – a word which I had not encountered before reading Bytheway (2000). Ironically, Bytheway does not share my affection for his invention; rather, for him it seems to have negative connotations, reflected in his comment: ‘as gerontologists we are vulnerable to seeing ourselves and those we study entirely in terms of age: as ageing rather than living individuals: ageful rather than ageless’ (2000: 78…
Continuity and Adaptation in Aging: Creating Positive Experiences
Feminist Research with Non-feminist and Anti-feminist Women: Meeting the Challenge
Feminist scholars conducting research with non-feminist and anti-feminist women are confronted with a dilemma that is rarely articulated in feminist writing: how can we represent these women's lives as they experience them while at the same time challenging women's oppression? A related dilemma is whether a feminist researcher is justified in describing a woman as a feminist if that term is not one that the woman herself would select. The article…
Memories of mother: Counter-narratives of early maternal influence
One of the most dominant cultural narratives is ‘the story of mothering’ but as many researchers have documented, there is a large chasm between this cultural product and individuals’ lived experiences of mothering and being mothered. When individuals talk about their relationships with their mothers, they locate themselves knowingly or not politically, economically, and historically. This article analyses data based on in-depth interviews with f…
Counter-narratives and the power to oppose
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Feminist Research with Non-Feminist and Anti-Feminist Women: Meeting the Challenge
Feminist scholars conducting research with non-feminist and anti-feminist women are confronted with a dilemma that is rarely articulated in feminist writing: how can we represent these women's lives as they experience them while at the same time challenging women's oppression? A related dilemma is whether a feminist researcher is justified in describing a woman as a feminist if that term is not one that the woman herself would select. The article…
Grand national narratives and the project of truth commissions: A Comparative Analysis
This article will compare the narrative projects of nation building and dismantling as represented in the truth commissions of South Africa and East Germany. One of the most important aspects of truth commissions is that personal suffering on a wide scale is publicly acknowledged and written into the national fabric. The relationship between individual and collective memory is a powerful one; through the testimonies that it has documented, the Tr…
Opening to the original contributions: Counter-narratives and the power to oppose
Introduction to the book
Considering Counter-Narratives: Narrating, resisting, making sense
Counter-narratives only make sense in relation to something else, that which they are countering. The very name identifies it as a positional category, in tension with another category. But what is dominant and what is resistant are not, of course, static questions, but rather are forever shifting placements. The discussion of counter-narratives is ultimately a consideration of multiple layers of positioning. The fluidity of these relational cate…
I. Breaking Down Barriers: Feminism, Politics and Psychology
The article explores the relationship between the three labels of feminist political psychologist from the perspective of the author. It interweaves personal narrative with case studies to illustrate how these three concepts are intricately bound together. In order to pursue research in political psychology gender can not be ignored as a central category in the way social, economic and political life are organized. Furthermore for the author Femi…
Shaping History: Narratives of Political Change
Featuring extraordinary personal accounts, this book provides a unique window through which to examine some of the great political changes of our time, and reveals both the potential and the challenge of narrating the political world. Molly Andrews' novel analysis of the relationship between history and biography presents in-depth case studies of four different countries, offers insights into controversial issues such as the explosion of patrioti…
“Pero si no he acabado… Tengo más que contar”: Las limitaciones de las narraciones estructuradas de los testimonios públicos
Persons who submitted applications to give testimony received very clear guidance on where their stories should begin, and where they should end; those who wanted to contextualize their experiences of loss were not allowed a platform to contemplate the wider causes of their suffering. Some who gave testimony before the TRC recalled afterwards the acute pain brought on by the lack of closure which they experienced in this process. Capturing storie…
Never the Last Word: Revisiting Data1
Introduction: What Is Narrative Research?
I live in terror of not being misunderstood (Oscar Wilde, ‘The Critic as Artist’) In the last three decades, narrative has acquired an increasingly high profile in social research
Doing Narrative Research
List of Contributors Introduction: What is Narrative Research? - Maria Tamboukou and Molly Andrews, Corinne Squire Narratives of Events: Labovian Narrative Analysis and its Limitations - Wendy Patterson From Experience-Centred to Socioculturally-Oriented Approaches to Narrative - Corinne Squire Analysing Narrative Contexts - Ann Phoenix A Foucauldian Approach to Narratives - Maria Tamboukou Practising a Rhizomatic Perspective in Narrative Researc…
Sociology (26 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Art (16 works) · Narrative (16 works) · History (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Literature (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works)