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Narrative analysis as a strategy for understanding interview talk in geographic research
Author(s) -
Wiles Janine L,
Rosenberg Mark W,
Kearns Robin A
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2005.00608.x
Subject(s) - narrative , interpretation (philosophy) , presentation (obstetrics) , sociology , qualitative research , narrative inquiry , social worlds , epistemology , computer science , social science , linguistics , medicine , philosophy , radiology , programming language
Narrative analysis produces strategies to inform the conduct, interpretation and presentation of interview talk, and encourages and enables researchers to take account of research participants’ own evaluations. We suggest this to be a useful method for geographers because it focuses on how people talk about and evaluate places, experiences and situations, as well as what they say. With an example from health geography, we show how it allows for interactive texts, thus providing a tool for geographers doing qualitative research to connect intimate details of experience to broader social and spatial relations.