Advances in Biographical Methods: Creative Applications

Advances in Biographical Methods: Creative Applications
ISBN-10
131791550X
ISBN-13
9781317915508
Category
Social Science
Pages
176
Language
English
Published
2014-12-05
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Brian Roberts, Maggie O’Neill, Andrew Sparkes

Description

Rooted in a long and diverse genealogy, biographical approaches have developed from a focus upon a single story, a ‘life story’ and personal documents (e.g. diaries), to encompass (more routinely) autobiographical secondary and archival research and analysis - as well as multi-media, arts based creative multi-sensory methods. Biographical Research and practices as part of human understanding helps people to make sense of what has been and what is happening in their lives, cultures, communities and societies. Advances in Biographical Methods: Creative Applications takes up these themes: theorising, doing and applying current advances in biographical methods. It demonstrates the momentum with which they areas are developing as a field of scholarship, especially in relation to creative innovations and applications, such as in new forms of interview and other practices, and debates on its interlinking with art, performance and digital methods.

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