On Tuesday the 8th of December at 12:00pm UK time, we will be launching our recently published book Storytelling Research Methods: Meaning Making and Interdisciplinary Knowledges across Borders, co-authored and edited by Michael Wilson, Antonia Liguori and Emily Underwood-Lee.
The event will be both in person – in Cardiff, at the University of South Wales, the Zen Room at the Atrium – and online. You can register via this event page: https://southwales.libcal.com/calendar/futureready/Storytelling_research
About the book
This title establishes the methods, subject matter, tonal qualities, and philosophical underpinnings of Storytelling Research, while distinguishing it from its close relatives in Narrative Research, Narrative Inquiry, Performance Research, Autoethnography, and Qualitative Methods. The book includes philosophical discussion of Storytelling Research alongside practical advice on how to conduct storytelling research and international case studies from storytellers, scholars and thinkers from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and Oceania (New Zealand) examining how storytelling methods have been used in practice.
The distinctive emphasis in Storytelling Research is on the telling of stories – that is, on the vibrant moments in which stories are summoned into the psycho-cultural space between individuals and groups. The creation, documentation and analysis of such moments are tasks of activism as well as pure research – their intention is to bring the world to a renewed condition, while advancing our understanding of such artful interactions. The book traces the interdisciplinary genealogies of storytelling research in Folklore, Performance Studies, Theatre, Communication Studies, Literature, Socio-linguistics, Sociology, History, and other contemporary lenses, while making the case for storytelling as its own uniquely rooted formation. It establishes holistic connections between storytelling as performing art and storytelling as a tool for generating data and social change.
