“Doing Your Life”

Narrative Intervention with Young Mothers as Storytellers

Dados Bibliográficos

ID18975498
AutoresA Gubrium (0000-0001-6012-365X, University of Massachusetts Amherst, autor correspondente), Elizabeth L Krause (0000-0002-0402-5470, University of Massachusetts Amherst), Katie Lucey (Research Institute of Scientific Research and Production Association)
Ano2018
Volume77
Fascículo3
Páginas214-227
Data de publicação2018-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHuman Organization (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.17730/0018-7259.77.3.214
OpenAlexW2891712213
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas43

The familiar story about young pregnant and parenting Latinas relies on commonsense logic about the timing of reproductive lives. We explore young mothers' own sense making, captured in local vernacular through participants' digital story depictions, our fieldnotes of digital storytelling workshop talk, and participants' follow-up interview reflections about enduring judgment and doing their lives. In this article, we introduce the Hear Our Stories project and present key digital stories and related ethnographic material that serve as local exemplars of “doing your life.” Findings reveal ways participants negotiate value making about their reproductive lives. As a narrative intervention, digital storytelling helps to gain a firmer grasp on social worlds and to better understand inequality, while also engaging participants in a process that affords them the opportunity to shift from being a judged teen mom to co-creators of knowledge and change as strategic storytellers

Art · Intervention (counseling) · Literature · Narrative · Narrative therapy · Sociology · Storytelling · Children's Rights and Participation · Digital Storytelling and Education · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social and Cultural Studies