Ashley Barnwell is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Signe Ravn is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
“An important collection that challenges conventional approaches to narrative and forces us to think about how we might engage with the richness, messiness and power of (not/telling) our and other’s stories.” Jo Woodiwiss, University of Huddersfield “The distinctive contribution of this collection is to show the range of what counts as a story for different people, the multiple media and venues in which stories are told, and the necessarily collaborative nature of storytelling. The chapters are wonderfully open, especially to the limits of their own perspectives and methods. The difficulties of both telling and listening to stories are never resolved but always engaged. Authors do not present “findings”; instead, they keep asking questions, especially about how they represent the storytellers whom they honour.” Arthur W. Frank, author