WUNRN
ENQUIRE: 3rd Issue,
Winter 2009
Theme for the 3rd Issue:
Narrating Women’s Experiences
ENQUIRE aims to
be established as a high quality online journal for the Social Sciences which
provides an encouraging and exciting space for academic research from the UK
and world-wide. We also hope to fill a gap in the Postgraduate Research world
by providing a critical, high quality-oriented but nevertheless supportive and
motivating procedure for publications by postgraduate students, post-doctoral
students and early career academics.
In this 3rd issue of ENQUIRE we ask authors to explore the various ways that women engage in narrative practices. Feminist discourse recognizes the importance of narrative in the shaping of women’s lives- we use narrative to understand our life worlds and to make sense of the everyday. The way we talk about and recount our experiences impacts on how we see ourselves and how we negotiate our identities in society. We ask authors to engage with the concept of narrative and how this relates to women’s experiences.
Following on from the first issue on ‘Methodologies and Methods: Variations on a Theme’, we also invite authors to reflect on the nature of the research process and to stimulate debate and discussion on how narrative practices have been used by researchers to explore these understandings. We ask authors to explore the bounded nature of the research process, and provide illuminations from their own experiences of using narrative research techniques, or listening to research participants’ narratives.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
· How do narratives impact on women’s negotiation of their identity? (i.e. their sexual identity, embodied identity, gendered identity, ethnic/racial identity, etc.)
· To what extent has feminist discourse informed theoretical debates about narrative?
· How do feminist methodologies and methods push research boundaries? (i.e. the use of narratives in the research process, memory-work, auto-ethnography, life-stories, etc.)
· How does narrative impact the field work experiences? (i.e. the use of diaries in the field)
Closing date for submissions: 21st November 2008
Papers should be no more than 8,000 words in length, including appendices, tables, and references.
Detailed guidelines for authors can be found on the ENQUIRE website at: www.nottingham.ac.uk/sociology/enquire
If you wish to discuss a proposed paper with the editorial team prior to
submission, please contact us on:
Enquire@nottingham.ac.uk
______________________________________________________
================================================================
To contact the list administrator, or to leave the list, send an email to: wunrn_listserve-request@lists.wunrn.com.
Thank you.