I just wanted to inform you about a new book Embodied Narratives. Connecting stories, bodies and ecologies. This book is based on a number of conferences held by tESREA research network Life History and Biographical Research. The first chapter in fact chronicles the development of the Network's thinking about narrative, narrative research, its potential and problematics.

Further  information about the book may be found below and you can also find more information on the the attached flyer. 

Best regards

Sofia

Embodied Narratives - Connecting stories, bodies, cultures and ecologies

By Laura Formenti, Linden West & Marianne Horsda

DKK 299,- + postage and packaging

ISBN: 978-87-7674-747-3, 308 pages

Auto/biography and life history methods can generate deep and rich insights into human life and learning. They also celebrate - as this book shows - the complexity and interdependence of the many aspects and levels of life that are kept separate by the hegemonic view of learning and research, which is overly functionalist, reductionist, dis-embodied and dis-connected.

Stories are a powerful means, in fact, to illuminate the connections between emotions and meaning, contents and con-texts, body and physical space, subjectivities and social structures, both at a micro, messo and macro level, in adult and life-long learning. A community of researchers who regularly meet to share ideas and methods, is involved here, building a framework - not unique, but pluralistic and complex - for re-thinking about narrative methods as not only addressed to words, events and meanings, as it is usually thought, but to relationships, con-texts, voices, images and metaphors, ur-ban and natural places, cultures, and ecologies.