The methodological and epistemic narrative of narrative productions

ABSTRACT

The empiricism underlying the research techniques developed in the context of the discursive turn of the late 1980s opened up various polemics during the 1990s on the practice of critical research. This effervescence led in the 2000s to the development and consolidation of Narrative Production Methodology as a qualitative research technique in the Catalan academic and activist context. Its grounding in feminist epistemology and dialogism provides a set of methodological principles for articulating and transforming partial positions of knowledge in the production of what Haraway considers ‘objective knowledge.’ The article provides the academic and epistemological context for the emergence of the Narrative Production Methodology and outlines the main technical procedures involved in the technique. Finally, the text reflects on the ontological implications of the narrative perspective.

KEYWORDS:

• Dialogism
• discourse
• feminist epistemology
• narrative productions methodology
• narrativity

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank the editors of this special issue and all the people who contributed to the development of Narrative Productions Methodology. In particular, to all those people who are no longer with us but very much alive in our memories: Rex Stainton-Rogers, Trevor Butt, Martin Roiser, and Marcia Worrell.

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Joan Pujol-Tarrés

Dr. Joan Pujol is a senior lecturer in the Department of Social Psychology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has been lecturer at the University of Huddersfield and an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Reading. His research combines material and discursive perspectives in the analysis of social issues.