A Life History of Place

A Future Place for Life Histories

Bibliographic Data

ID2386483
AuthorsMarc Spooner (0000-0003-4716-8241, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada)
Year2019
Volume25
Issue5
Pages513-522
Publication date2019-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800418817840
OpenAlexW2906439685
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited18

Diverse in nature, style, and approach, life histories enjoy a rich and established position within the broader narrative and qualitative research traditions. Nevertheless, such a position may be rendered considerably more complicated given new technologies and post-humanist developments. Rather than shy away from such new complexities, the life history field, it is argued, should embrace these developments and explore the fertile ground that might well lie at the intersections of the postqualitative, Indigenous, and place-based turns. What happens when "place" becomes the central character-the complex, entangled protagonist-of a life history focus? Exploring just such a re-imagining, this article examines the potential for creating fecund new ground for a life history of place. As a concrete example-although perhaps an unlikely source for inspiration-Phil Jenkins's An Acre of Time: The Enduring Value of Place will be offered as a potential prototype

Aesthetics · Art · Character (mathematics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Everyday life · Field (mathematics · Humanism · Indigenous · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Data Analysis and Archiving · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Philosophy · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics

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