Walking Alongside: Relational Research Spaces in Visual Narrative Inquiry

Walking alongside is a phrase used in narrative inquiry to describe relational commitments that shape how we attend to the complexity of lives, unfolding over time, and within a web of social relations. The space of inquiry requires researchers to attend to participants’ lives and stories of experie...

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Autor principal:	Michelle Lavoie PhD, MFA
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	SAGE Publishing 2021
Materias:	Social sciences (General) H1-99
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:95780eb8f912485cb6c05905422900e62021-11-25T17:03:20ZWalking Alongside: Relational Research Spaces in Visual Narrative Inquiry1609-406910.1177/16094069211053107https://doaj.org/article/95780eb8f912485cb6c05905422900e62021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1177/16094069211053107https://doaj.org/toc/1609-4069Walking alongside is a phrase used in narrative inquiry to describe relational commitments that shape how we attend to the complexity of lives, unfolding over time, and within a web of social relations. The space of inquiry requires researchers to attend to participants’ lives and stories of experience across various social situations, places, and times. In this paper, I explicate and unpack my intimate, and sometimes complex, journey and unfolding research process. In this study, walking alongside was a process of embodying the relational ethics of narrative inquiry, which attended to silences, remained playful, and responded to and through uncertainty. I provide insight into building relational spaces in visual narrative inquiry by combining art-making with Lugones’ theories on world travelling to creatively and nimbly respond to stories and walk alongside participants. As a narrative inquirer, I walked alongside three trans young adults, to co-create, re-imagine, and transform research in relation to participants. This process is undergirded by attention to and a deepening awareness of relational ethics, and by creating spaces that allow for emergent possibilities of being in relation to honor diverse and multiple ways of knowing.Michelle Lavoie PhD, MFASAGE PublishingarticleSocial sciences (General)H1-99ENInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods, Vol 20 (2021)
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description	Walking alongside is a phrase used in narrative inquiry to describe relational commitments that shape how we attend to the complexity of lives, unfolding over time, and within a web of social relations. The space of inquiry requires researchers to attend to participants’ lives and stories of experience across various social situations, places, and times. In this paper, I explicate and unpack my intimate, and sometimes complex, journey and unfolding research process. In this study, walking alongside was a process of embodying the relational ethics of narrative inquiry, which attended to silences, remained playful, and responded to and through uncertainty. I provide insight into building relational spaces in visual narrative inquiry by combining art-making with Lugones’ theories on world travelling to creatively and nimbly respond to stories and walk alongside participants. As a narrative inquirer, I walked alongside three trans young adults, to co-create, re-imagine, and transform research in relation to participants. This process is undergirded by attention to and a deepening awareness of relational ethics, and by creating spaces that allow for emergent possibilities of being in relation to honor diverse and multiple ways of knowing.
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Walking Alongside: Relational Research Spaces in Visual Narrative Inquiry

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