%0 Journal Article
%T A Life History of Place: A Future Place for Life Histories?
%A Marc Spooner
%J Qualitative Inquiry
%@ 1552-7565
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1077800418817840
%X Diverse in nature, style, and approach, life histories enjoy a rich and established position within the broader narrative and qualitative research traditions. Nevertheless, such a position may be rendered considerably more complicated given new technologies and post-humanist developments. Rather than shy away from such new complexities, the life history field, it is argued, should embrace these developments and explore the fertile ground that might well lie at the intersections of the postqualitative, Indigenous, and place-based turns. What happens when ¡°place¡± becomes the central character¡ªthe complex, entangled protagonist¡ªof a life history focus? Exploring just such a re-imagining, this article examines the potential for creating fecund new ground for a life history of place. As a concrete example¡ªalthough perhaps an unlikely source for inspiration¡ªPhil Jenkins¡¯s An Acre of Time: The Enduring Value of Place will be offered as a potential prototype
%K indigenous methodologies
%K life history
%K new materialisms
%K posthumanism
%K place-based research
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077800418817840