qualitative research – Nicole Collier Harp, Ph.D.

I'm excited to be in North Carolina this morning. I'm attending the 10th Annual Qualitative Research Summer Intensive. I'm here for a two-day workshop on grounded theory with Kathy Charmaz. Very awesome. I brought my survivor story as my sample data, so this should be interesting. In other news, I've launched a book project (unrelated) and once that's more fully established, I'll share a bit in this space. It's a good entry point into thinking and learning more about mass incarceration and the prison-industrial complex. There are a couple of other projects I'm mulling that are just about ready to shift into the doing stage. That's something I'm working on this year - taking action on ideas instead of letting them live (and sometimes eventually, die) in my head. Speaking…

I am a novice narratologist. I'm interested in the stories we live and tell, and how we can ultimately learn from them. In my work as an independent scholar, I keep coming across the term autoethnography. I don't know exactly what it is, but it seems, at first glance, very much in line with my immediate interest in interrogating my own personal narrative. My next step is to co-inquire with others as they do the same. In March, I wrote this as I was theorizing about my connection to personal narratives and coming to understand life as text: We have a say. Writing gives voice to thoughts and makes them visible. In their visibility they become tangible: A memory becomes a guiding light. An amorphous thought becomes a pathway, a…

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