Storytelling Research Methods: Meaning Making and Interdisciplinary Knowledges across Borders

Storytelling Research Methods 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, and North America 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 The book will be useful as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in Storytelling, as well as those who wish to expand their understanding of qualitative methods across the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

Table of Contents:
1. Storytelling in an Interdisciplinary Research Environment 2. Towards Un-disciplinarity: Storytelling, Technology and the Academy 3. Storytelling and Ethics 4. The Tale Exchange: Telling Stories around Corners to Craft a Commons 5. Story-based Groupwork and Nature Connectedness: The Sky Clears 6. Classroom Engagement across Disciplines through Digital Storytelling: Exploring Personal Connections to Museum Objects in the Smithsonian Learning Lab to Strengthen Learning Communities 7. Sleep Stories 8. Of Telling Identities and Spaces: Myth-Chanting Tradition of the Khasis 9. Doing Storytelling Work in the Context of Gender-Based Violence 10. Adapting Storytelling for the Busy Workplace: #mynamemeans Project 11. A Conversation on Storytelling in Chronic Pain Research and Clinical Practice: How to Learn to Be Comfortable with Silence and Unexplored Narratives 12. A Conversation on Storytelling as Cultural Investigation: Exploring Conflicts, Transitions and Reconciliation in Rwanda through Filmmaking 13. Conclusion

About the Author :
Mike Wilson is Professor of Drama and UNESCO Chair in Storytelling Education for Sustainability, Loughborough University, UK. Antonia Liguori is Professor of Participatory Storytelling and Public Policy and Co-Director of the Institute for Collective Place Leadership at Teesside University, UK. Emily Underwood-Lee is Professor of Performance Studies at the University of South Wales, UK.