Storyworlding: an outline of the philosophic commitments and research applications of a new feminist methodology

• Published in: International journal of qualitative studies in education Vol. 35; no. 10; pp. 1036 - 1051
• Main Authors: Dennis, Barbara, Zhao, Pengfei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 26-11-2022; Taylor & Francis
• Subjects: Caring; Cultural Influences; Feminism; feminist methodology; Geographic Information Systems; lifestory; Social Justice; Story Telling; storymapping; Storyworlding; Vocabulary
• ISSN: 0951-8398; 1366-5898
• DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2022.2061631

In this paper, we introduce a new feminist methodology, storyworlding. Storyworlding is a feminist, participatory methodology to engage in culturally informed and ethnographically rich stories through which we establish our being together. The paper explores crucial onto-epistemological shifts in two important concepts-world and story as the basis for how we engaged storyworlding while also advancing the Marxist idea of praxis in order to propose a social just orientation of collective doing and becoming. Our methodological contribution includes identifying four key momentums we affiliate with storyworlding practices. We conclude with a conceptualization of Storyworlding as Collective Self-Agency and the methodological implications of that conceptualization.