Narrative Research

Ntinda, Kayi

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“…It aimed to explore Syrian torture survivors’ subjective narratives, with the purpose of shedding light on their personal experiences from the moment of detection (including arrest, detention, torture, release, and escape from Syria) to the phase of post-displacement. In conducting this qualitative research using the narrative paradigm, the team of researchers in this study hoped to provide a space for survivors to voice their unheard and unacknowledged experiences [ 22 , 23 ]. The narrative research aims to unravel the life stories of people as they were told by them in their own words and worlds, which capture the complexities and nuances of their significant experiences [ 22 ].…”

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“…In conducting this qualitative research using the narrative paradigm, the team of researchers in this study hoped to provide a space for survivors to voice their unheard and unacknowledged experiences [ 22 , 23 ]. The narrative research aims to unravel the life stories of people as they were told by them in their own words and worlds, which capture the complexities and nuances of their significant experiences [ 22 ]. Through storytelling, people order their life experiences and provide personal meaning to them [ 24 ].…”

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“…Through storytelling, people order their life experiences and provide personal meaning to them [ 24 ]. Thus, this research method is a person-oriented approach, in which the narrators construct and compose their stories in the social, cultural, and lingual contexts as they perceive them [ 22 ]. This study utilized narrative research as its methodological framework in both data collection and interpretive or analytical processes to understand survivors’ sensemaking and life choices.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It considered temporality, sociality, and place. Meaning that researchers focused on chronologically organizing survivors’ narratives into past, present, and future (temporality), as well as personal and social conditions under which experiences and events occurred (sociality), and the physical space where events took place [ 22 , 24 ]. Although the sociality aspect of the narrative research considers both participants and researchers as working collaboratively in constructing meaning of the phenomena studied, researchers on this paper chose to mainly focus on participants’ lived experiences as the leaders of their own stories.…”

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The Syrian regime’s apparatus for systemic torture: A qualitative narrative study of testimonies from survivors

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Background Despite broad interest of the Syrian refugee plight in the academic and media circles, there are still limited studies analyzing the lived experiences of torture survivors under the Syrian regime. This qualitative study interviewed torture survivors to examine the form and function of the Syrian regime’s security apparatus, and the personal aftermath of survivors. Methods Thirteen in-depth interviews were conducted in Arabic with Syrian refugees who endured torture. Study participants were at least 19 years of age, resided as refugees in Jordan, and voluntarily agreed to participate in the study. Participation was anonymous and no incentives were provided. Only oral consent was required. Audio-recorded interviews were transcribed and translated to English, and then analyzed for repetitive themes utilizing the narrative approach. Results Major themes were observed across three experience-phases: pre-captivity, during captivity, and post-captivity. The pre-captivity phase included two sub-themes: the Syrian regime’s initial detection and arrest system, and the intelligence system. The captivity phase was also divided into two sub-themes: environmental conditions in detention facilities, and torture methods including physical and psychological torture. Some of the environmental conditions in detention facilities included lack of sanitation, crowding, starvation, and withholding of medical care. Torture methods encompassed beatings, electric shocks, nail-pulling, hanging, drowning, suffocation, rape, and the witnessing of killing, sexual assault, or torture of others. The post-captivity phase included their release from captivity, escaping Syria, and post-displacement conditions and activism. Conclusions The Syrian regime employs a vast security apparatus to track, detain, interrogate, torture, and subjugate its civilian population. A systematic mechanism commences even before captivity and continues for years after release, with negative implications on the well-being of survivors, their families, and the Syrian people as a collective community. The Syrian war saw a shift toward mass detention, torture as a form of social punishment, subjugation, and indeterminate imprisonment. Intervention agencies, host countries, and policymakers must be informed of survivors’ experiences to better address their needs. Moreover, the international community must advocate for a firm stance against torture, demand justice, and prosecute all parties engaged in perpetuating such extreme forms of suffering and trauma.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsmentioning

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“…Since Black women are a multi-marginalised group, the research aim was to access their "subjective worlds and meanings", as informed by macrolocalised WEIRD world contexts 137 , to try to better interpret within microlocalised contexts, via narrative research (Collins, 2009;Ntinda, 2019).…”

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Forget me not: demarginalising trailblazing and leading Black women’s WEIRD industrial, organisational, and societal career experiences with “power” in the world’s top music industry ecosystems

Blackwell¹

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Governments in the UK and US passed a slew of acts and laws, from 1960s onward, to prohibit discriminatory practices aimed at marginalised groups, across business and society. Despite these landmark rulings, it is still the case that ideological, institutional, interpersonal, and internalised acts of dehumanisation continue to permeate WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized [sic], Rich, and Democratic) consciousness, perceived-to-be justifiable behaviours, as well as (dysfunctional) ways of relating within cultural paradigms, as (nonaccountability) being ascribed to “social norms”. By framing this groundbreaking IO psychological research project, within multiple wider social contexts, while also centring the implications of “human (business) practices” in the music industry, I sought to cross-culturally examine trailblazing and leading UK and US Black women’s industrial, organisational, and societal career experiences, in this “equality” era. Accordingly, I developed this project from the specific lenses of Black women navigating “power”, “identity politics”, the “politics of identity” and the implications of social constructs, in the, purported-to-be, egalitarian, top- performing music industry ecosystems of the world. In commissioning both intersectionality theory (IT) and, what I will name, an “intrasectional” conceptual framework – a hybrid critical realist ontology and Black feminist epistemology (BFE), where reflexivity would be valued, were ultimately chosen to guide the methodological choices. Also, as narrative research is critical to understanding “lived experiences”, (a criterion in BFE), this thesis leaned towards a Big Q qualitative model, incorporating a multimethod design, featuring two reflexive thematic analyses, using archival data, for Study 1 (n=9 industry trailblazers), to inform the approach for in- depth semi-structured interviews, for Study 2 (n=12 industry leaders). Based on the findings, the themes I generated from Study 1 and Study 2, strongly indicate that Black women’s systemic WEIRD MIE career experiences, are an alarming cause for concern, as the negative workplace issues they tend to encounter fit the criteria of a “humanitarian crisis”, by the UN’s standards, which deserves macro-contexts, urgent attention, and a call- to-action for stakeholder and organisational interventions, as Black women spoke to themes of workplace abuse and incivility, prolonged poor mental and physical health outcomes, other forms of multidimensional exploitation, as well as experiences with disconnection, and barriers at every level in their careers, in the relationship-driven music industry. As these outcomes adversely impacted the pace and progression, as well as trajectories, of their careers across the multisectoral and occupational spectrums in the MIEs, this thesis sought to explore how and why, adding an original contribution to knowledge in psychology through this niche exploration.

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Iranian English language policy and learner’s identity formation: a reflective study

Daneshfar,

Moharami

2024

Educ Res Policy Prac

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Narrative Research

Cited by 31 publications

References 33 publications

The Syrian regime’s apparatus for systemic torture: A qualitative narrative study of testimonies from survivors

The Syrian regime’s apparatus for systemic torture: A qualitative narrative study of testimonies from survivors

Forget me not: demarginalising trailblazing and leading Black women’s WEIRD industrial, organisational, and societal career experiences with “power” in the world’s top music industry ecosystems

Iranian English language policy and learner’s identity formation: a reflective study

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