Unconcealment
What Happens When We Tell Stories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2385876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Finola Farrant (0000-0002-2637-1489, University of Roehampton, London, UK) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 461-470 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1077800413516271 |
| OpenAlex | W2001678736 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 24 |
Storytelling is central to human understanding and knowledge. Through listening, reflecting, and retelling a story, new discoveries can be made and an unconcealment, of something that would otherwise remain hidden, occurs. This article uses my experience of undertaking life story research with male ex-prisoners to explore a number of issues raised by Jewkes in her article on doing prison research differently. I suggest that concerns about research "contamination" impact how we do research and how we respond to the emotional experience of doing ethnographic research in criminology. The first potentially restricts modes of analysis, such as intertextual readings of interviews, while the second may prevent a more humanistic relationship between researcher and participant developing. Contamination, rather than something that we connect with polluting, spoiling, or dirtying, should be embraced as offering the potential for revealing new knowledge and ways of doing research differently
Active listening · Art · Criminology · Ethnography · Humanism · Literature · Narrative · Participant observation · Political science · Prison · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Storytelling · Anthropology · Communication · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
White shame and white ambivalence in learning to be a well‐started White anti‐racist science teacher
Shapeshifting Identities
Uncovering Habitus in Life Stories of Muslim Converts
Discourses, Cultural narratives, and Genre in Biographical Narratives
Doing research in immigration removal centres
The power of the pen
Storycrafting refugee children’s lives. Presenting Ali and the Long Journey to Australia
Understanding and coping with immigration detention
Rehumanizing the harms of hate
Discourses We Live By
Reflexivity of discomfort
The Triple Bind of Narration
Ethical Issues in Biographical Interviews and Analysis
Making good
The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative
On Stories
Stigma
The Prisoner SocietyPower, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison
Narrative Identity
Narrative Research
Prisons and their Moral Performance
Projecting the prison
Depth, weight, tightness
Four Blocks Against Insight
The Society of Captives
Risk and Blame
The Courage of His Convictions
The Curious Eclipse of Prison Ethnography in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Autoethnography and Emotion as Intellectual Resources
Storytelling as Research/Research as Storytelling
| Citations per year | 1.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |