The Creation of Fiction to Share Other Truths and Different Viewpoints: A Creative Journey and an Interpretive Process

Vickers, Margaret H.

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“…The vignette is offered with the intention of presenting the target's perspective of being bullied, and to illustrate what the target's social performances might be in response to that bullying. 1 While a full analysis of the value of fiction, creative nonfiction, and creative writing techniques to present scholarly research is also beyond the scope of this article, I can confirm that scholars have been doing this successfully for years (see, e.g., Caulley, 2008;Ellis & Bochner, 2003;Furman, Lietz, & Langer, 2006;Glesne, 1997;Gutkind, 2009;Harold, 2003;Ketelle, 2004;Spindler, 2008;Vickers, 2010bVickers, , 2011Whiteman & Phillips, 2006). Fictional and other creative writing contributions have much to offer, especially when the researcher has both lived and researched the phenomenon under review.…”

Section: A Constructed (Fictional) Vignettementioning

confidence: 74%

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Bullying Targets as Social Performers in the Public Administration Workplace

Vickers

2011

Administrative Theory & Praxis

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This article argues that workers in public administration (PA) who are targets of bullying engage in social performances in an attempt to maintain control over their situation. The article considers the literature on social performances, including Hochschild's concept of emotional labor and its emergence in the PA arena. A case study is then presented that includes a nonfiction narrative describing the bullying of a library worker followed by a constructed (fictional) vignette vivifying the target's experience of being bullied and her possible social performances in response to that. The vignette depicting social performances is then analyzed via various social performance theories: surface and deep acting, emotional self-management, organizational display rules, impression management, and self-monitoring. The article concludes by returning to LaBier's notions of the working wounded and modern madness. Comparing the responses of targets of bullying to the troubled careerists studied by LaBier offers many points of intersection. Most notably, people who are being bullied within the context of the modern PA workplace might appear perfectly normal in their responses to being bullied but may, instead, be exhibiting on-the-job behavior that is quite "sick."A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization, a token of technical progress. Indeed, what could be more rational than the suppression of individuality in the mechanization of socially necessary but painful performances.-Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society Erving Goffman (1959) was perhaps the first to address the notion of workers managing their feelings and outward expressions and to speak of the necessity

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Section: A Constructed (Fictional) Vignettementioning

confidence: 74%

“…noTe 1. Readers interested in learning more about how the construction and interpretation of such a vignette might be undertaken are directed to Vickers (2010bVickers ( , 2011. I thank an anonymous reviewer for sharing how the review of this manu-script evoked memories of having been bullied as a junior faculty member.…”

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Bullying Targets as Social Performers in the Public Administration Workplace

Vickers

2011

Administrative Theory & Praxis

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“…Thus, this study adopts some of the methodological suggestions by Parry and Johnson (2007) and Vickers (2010), and elaborates on the author's understanding of the pig world. More specifically, it uses critical thinking and creativity, and relies on the consultation of scientific and fictional sources about pigs.…”

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Animal-based experiences and animal experiences: farm animals’ perspective on human leisure in rural settings

Bertella

2020

Annals of Leisure Research

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This study poses the question: How are leisure experiences inspired by rural practices about the traditional use of farm animals lived by the animals? The aim is to contribute to the literature about farm animals in leisure experiences and the animals' perspectives on the leisure experiences in which they are involved. Based on the main tenets of ecofeminism, it explores the research question by adopting a creative approach consisting of a fictional story about a pig living at a rural museum. An ad hoc model is developed to identify some main typologies of animal experiences derived from their involvement in human leisure experiences. This study highlights some practical and research implications and invites the reader to deeply and critically reflect on the use of animals for human leisure.

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“…Through opting for creative nonfiction, as supported by Gutkind and Fletcher (2008), we used what is known as “compression.” Compression involves combining multiple participant descriptions, situations, and experiences into a few characters to accurately and logically re/construct the narrative streams identified within the dataset. The purpose of creating individual characters to represent each narrative stream is to engage readers and resonate as “real” (Vickers, 2010). The dialogue between characters gives readers exposure to a familiar storied format to foster understanding of the lived experience of research participation.…”

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Healthcare Providers’ Experiences as Arts-Based Research Participants: “I Created My Story About Disability and Difference, Now What?”

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Little is known about the experiences of healthcare providers as research participants in qualitative studies employing methods that encourage disclosure of their own disabilities. In this paper, we describe the experiences and implications of creating personal stories of disability and difference for healthcare provider participants in an arts-based study. The study design is a supplementary secondary analysis of a subset of data from a larger study focused on transforming negative concepts of disability and difference entitled, Mobilizing New Meanings of Disability and Difference: Using Arts-Based Approaches to Advance Healthcare Inclusion for Women with Disabilities. This supplementary study explores the experiences and perspectives of 17 healthcare provider participants who completed semi-structured interviews following creation of a multi-media story about their experience of disability or difference. Using creative non-fiction methods, two narrative streams are identified about healthcare provider experiences and the impacts of participating. The first addresses shared positive experiences about the research. The second entails more ambivalent reflections on their involvement as participants. The tension between the two experiences generates considerations to forward a mutually beneficial alliance to disrupt ableist understandings in healthcare and reveals new meanings of disability that are agential and integral to the stories and storytellers themselves.

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The Creation of Fiction to Share Other Truths and Different Viewpoints: A Creative Journey and an Interpretive Process

Cited by 34 publications

References 37 publications

Bullying Targets as Social Performers in the Public Administration Workplace

Bullying Targets as Social Performers in the Public Administration Workplace

Animal-based experiences and animal experiences: farm animals’ perspective on human leisure in rural settings

Healthcare Providers’ Experiences as Arts-Based Research Participants: “I Created My Story About Disability and Difference, Now What?”

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