The Role of Reflexivity in Endarkened Narrative Inquiry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17826499 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keondria Mcclish-Boyd (0009-0007-0332-128X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 26-52 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2333-9489 • E-ISSN: 2333-9497 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/dcqr.2025.14.4.26 |
| OpenAlex | W4417474294 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
Reflexivity is a common methodological and ethical practice that researchers employ. However, reflexivity, especially for endarkened narrative inquiry (ENI), extends beyond exploring positionality, power, and complicity and requires an ethic of care that recognizes the integral role of tending to the researcher’s embodiment, relational accountability, and well-being in the process. This article explores reflexivity as an embodied, relational, social, and cultural practice that enables researchers to challenge dominant narratives, engage in intellectual play, and foster new possibilities for knowledge creation. To deepen reflexive engagement in ENI, I present a reflexive cycle that integrates embodied, relational, and spiritual dimensions of reflexivity. This cyclical framework consists of six phases: awareness, relational engagement, spiritual and cultural integration, critical examination, knowledge transformation, and documentation and integration. By focusing on the iterative and holistic nature of reflexivity, this model proposes a framework for researchers seeking to engage more deeply with their own inquiry processes while remaining accountable to the communities with which they interact
Complicity · Documentation · Narrative · Narrative inquiry · Reflexivity · Transformative learning · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Sister‐to‐Sister Talk
Embodied Collective Reflexivity
Critical Ethnography and Education
Methodological Considerations for Endarkened Narrative Inquiry
“Under Western Eyes” Revisited
Upending racism in psychological science
Bringing epistemology into intersectional methodology
Close encounters
Positions, positionality, and relationality in educational research
Theory in the flesh
Endarkened narrative inquiry
The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen
Positionality in Critical Feminist Scholarship
Confession, catharsis, or cure? Rethinking the uses of reflexivity as methodological power in qualitative research
Qualitative research in counseling psychology
Expanding the Notion of Researcher Distress
Embodied Knowledge
Race, Sex and Self
Reflectivity in Research Practice
Reflexive embodied ethnography with applied sensibilities
Doing sensitive research
Embodied Reflexivity Through the Arts
Consenting to the Consent Form
When Gender is not Enough
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |