Reconfiguring narrative methodologies: Thresholds of realities in post-qualitative methodologies

Abstract

© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019. All rights reserved. What is narrative and how does it represent 'reality'? Indeed what is reality, and is it even possible for narrative voices to portray it? In this chapter, we reconfigure narrative through a post-qualitative methodological and philosophical lens. Against a backdrop of the usefulness of recent shifts in narrative, to elevate social justice, rights and ethical concerns, we argue here for more radical shifts. Questioning the nature and knowability of reality, we use contemporary implications of worldly reality/ies (through Latour) and of subject formations, foreignness and the ethics of thought (through Kristeva) to substantiate ou..