Imagination as Method

Hayes, Michael T.; Sameshima, Pauline; Watson, Francene

doi:10.1177/160940691501400105

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“…Drawing upon Greene’s (1995) work, we concur that imagination, facilitated through the arts, allows researchers to traverse beyond their worldview and provides an opening into another person’s world. However, we also recognize that imagination is influenced by the researcher’s experiences (Hayes et al, 2015), making open and reflexive dialogue vital to the process. We found ourselves constantly deliberating about pictorial composition and choices of imagery, color, texture, media, point of view, and emotional tone.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition to telling a story, narrative art can foster imagination and curiosity as well as spark discussions. Others have spoken about the methodological significance of imagination as a tool that can expand and generate understandings of the social world (Hayes, Sameshima, & Watson, 2015). Although our review of the literature did not identify the use of narrative art as an analytic technique or method of dissemination in research, its possibilities are boundless in terms of how its aesthetic form could provide a more holistic and layered understanding of human and social phenomena.…”

Section: Background: Narrative Mapping and Narrative Artmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Pictorial Narrative Mapping as a Qualitative Analytic Technique

Lapum

Liu

Hume

et al. 2015

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Qualitative analysis is often a textual undertaking. However, it can be helpful to think about and represent study phenomena or narrative accounts in nontextual ways. In this article, we share our unique and artistic process in developing and employing pictorial narrative mapping as a qualitative analytic technique. We recast a nontextual, artistic-analytic technique by combining elements related to narrative mapping and narrative art. This technique involves aesthetic attunement to data and visual representation through pictorial design. We advanced this technique in the context of a narrative study about how arts-informed dissemination methods influence health-care practitioners' delivery of care. We found that the Pictorial Narrative Mapping process prompted an aesthetic and imaginative experience in the analytic process of qualitative inquiry. As an analytic technique, Pictorial Narrative Mapping extends the inquiry process and enhances rigor through artistic means as well as iterative and critical dialogue. Additionally, pictorial narrative maps can provide a holistic account of the phenomenon under study and assist researchers to make meaning of nuances within complex narratives. As researchers consider employing Pictorial Narrative Mapping, we recommend that they draw upon this technique as a malleable script yielding to an organic process that emerges from both their own data and analytic discussions. We are further curious about its imaginative capacities in social and health science literature, its possibilities in other disciplinary contexts, and the prospects of what Maxine Greene refers to as becoming more wide awake-in our case, in future research analytic endeavors.

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Section: Background: Narrative Mapping and Narrative Artmentioning

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Pictorial Narrative Mapping as a Qualitative Analytic Technique

Lapum

Liu

Hume

et al. 2015

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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“…The purpose of having three voices for this study is to have more insights and experiences of the critical issues that will be examined and interrogated in the trioethnographic discussions as we are three researchers based in Canada and Australia sharing different perspectives of important educational problems that matter in this study. The innovation of our research comes from the combination of duoethnography with photography that awakens our imaginative capacities concerning human social experiences, not only “describing intact cultures or societies that exist outside or beyond the observations and analyses of researchers” but also “imagining and generating the contours of society and culture” (Hayes et al, 2015, p. 37). The co-adoption of duoethnography and photography allows us to give rise to our consciousness and imagination for a more explicit examination of contemporary society in a global crisis.…”

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Combining Photography and Duoethnography for Creating a Trioethnography Approach to Reflect Upon Educational Issues Amidst the COVID-19 Global Pandemic

Tran

2021

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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This study proposes a new research design, combining duoethnography and photography into a trioethnography that opens an artful lens through which educational changes, emerging and unfixed problems, and unexplored/unseen values and hopes were examined. Central to this trioethnography was voices of three Vietnamese doctoral students with transnational experiences in Canada and Australia, around three educational topics: researcher positionality, education inequity, and mindfulness in relation to the global crisis within and beyond higher education contexts. Living transnationally in these insecure and rocky times of a pandemic gives us a unique opportunity to contemplate the global educational shifts, moves, and changes in and after the crisis. We formed our discussions in the three circles of the Indigenous approach, in which we shared cultural artifacts, such as photographs, and used them as the catalysts for personal and interactive reflections. Taking up the spirit of duoethnography, we have seen that findings might be emerging from our dialogues and discussions; we gathered three different voices of contemplative educators to juxtapose our diverse perspectives and experiences of how education is changing, evolving, and shifting significantly amidst the COVID-19. In this process, we have shown efforts in progressing the traditional methodological practices of duoethnography through our trioethnographic conversations. Within the back-and-forth conversations, we have seen multiple facets of our narrative experiences through photographs, including personal sophisticated emotions, struggles, hopes, and losses.

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“…In their article Imagination as Method Hayes et al (2014) argue that to explore lived experience, we must revise our understanding of the relationship between research, society and individual experience. The authors maintain that the imagination furnishes distant communities with a capacity to generate rather than describe societies.…”

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The transgressive festival imagination and the idealisation of reversal

Jamieson

Todd

2019

Leisure Studies

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To consider the festival's potential as an activist tactic may seem naïve and disconnected from the colonizing practices of event tourism. However, today's immersive and curated festival experiences are indebted to a wider festival imagination: a spatial imagination suffused with reversal and transgression. In this paper, we aim to trace a transgressive festival imagination through four vectors of reversal that have contributed to how we imagine both festivals and activism: the crowd, play, appropriation and spontaneity.Each of these point to the significance of a certain kind of festival space, one that is mutable, protean, volatile and transitional, extending both a techne of resistance and operable elements of the creative industries' somatic economy. By tracing the transgressive festival imagination, across festivals and activist practices, we argue that the contemporary urban festival and the performative tactics of social movements share visions of contingency, playful performance and an aesthetic-political heightened energy.

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Imagination as Method

Cited by 15 publications

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Pictorial Narrative Mapping as a Qualitative Analytic Technique

Pictorial Narrative Mapping as a Qualitative Analytic Technique

Combining Photography and Duoethnography for Creating a Trioethnography Approach to Reflect Upon Educational Issues Amidst the COVID-19 Global Pandemic

The transgressive festival imagination and the idealisation of reversal

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