Deterritorializing collective biography

Susanne Gannon, Michele Byers, Mythili Rajiva, Susan Walsh

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    Abstract

    In this chapter, we “deterritorialize” collective biography through the introduction of textual in(ter)ventions that invoke multiple genres of text and move us to new interpretive spaces. Collective biography has a long history in feminist research, emerging initially from the work of Haug and colleagues (1987) and developing in various iterations over time. In 1991, Lather identified it as a productive emergent methodology for disrupting subject-object relations and for bringing the body into research, enabling groups of researchers to collectively analyse how their modes of thinking and being in the world had been “colonized by dominant patterns of thought” (p.95). The post-structural turn to discourse and its constitutive effects have further influenced the methodological practices of collective biography, particularly in education through the work of Davies and colleagues (e.g., Davies, 1994; Davies & Gannon, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012).
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationBecoming Girl: Collective Biography and the Production of Girlhood
    EditorsMarnina Gonick, Susanne Gannon
    Place of PublicationCanada
    PublisherWomen's Press
    Pages59-78
    Number of pages20
    ISBN (Electronic)9780889615151
    ISBN (Print)9780889615137
    Publication statusPublished - 2014

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