NOVELLAFamily lives in the past, present and future

Research Node

Aims to understand:

The complexity of the everyday.Intersection between individual/agent and

social structures in the habitual practices of family and personal lives.

Disconnect between what people say and what they do.

Mixed-methods approach.

Commonalities between Cathy’s paper and Novella projects Rupture as productive of narratives

Migration; war; environmental difficulties Multi-level disjunctions between what’s said and

done/felt–story finished, then restarted; absences‘Turn to language’ – what’s said is performative.Different sources to gain understandings of food practices

in a particular historical period - direct and indirect.Different methods to see the ‘doing’ of family practices &

negotiation of accounts and complexity from different viewpoints.

Insights into emotional engagement.Analysis of contradictions, absences etc.

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Commonalities between Cathy’s paper and Novella projects Temporality and rethinking narrative

Insights into how time is retrospectively narrated as vivid memories at some points and vividness of past in the present.

Anticipations of the future. Identity practices – Cathy as woman who works out & packs her

bag; patient; Recipes for Mothering—identity claims; narrator’s perspective.

Who is the audience? Who is centred in the narrative—’peripheral characters’? What are

the absences? Relationality and family practices–

Identity claims through invoking realtionships; putting boundaries around family as a family practice

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Commonalities between Cathy’s paper and Novella projects Nature of narrative/chronicle— debate, e.g.

Linda SandinoWhat constitutes the everyday? The habitual? Cathy’s narrative shows the creation of the

habitual in process and the disruption of the everyday

Each project focuses on he everyday. Researcher reflexivity—using own lives as

data—disciplinary practices –e.g. Catherine Walker and Joe Winter

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Examples of different forms of secondary analysis / Reuse of data

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Asking new questions of

already-existing data (Heaton,

2004)

Devising ways of

linking data

Crafting new forms of narrative analysis

(Andrews et al., 2013)

•Avoiding methodological dogma about narratives •No necessary link between epistemology and method.•Multiple levels from which narratives are produced: different research participants; primary researchers and Novella researchers

•What constitutes re-use of data/secondary analysis is not straightforward.

How the past is remembered and what is included as family history relates to feelings in the everyday

present and anticipations of the future

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Meanings are negotiated within social contexts and social positioning

Practices ‘capture’ different family members (c.f. Shove et al., 2012).

Case-based narrative methods in conjunction with the other methods show complexities of differences and commonalities in everyday practices.

Macro and meso issues are evident in families' everyday local, micro, habitual practices

Often visible when there is a disjunction between the normative and personal/family lives.

Processes of subjectification to family stories is psychosocial