INTERDISCIPLINARY SCHOLAR, CREATOR, PERFORMER, TEACHING ARTIST
INTERDISCIPLINARY SCHOLAR, CREATOR, PERFORMER, TEACHING ARTIST
[Peer-Reviewed Book Review]
Understanding Narrative Inquiry: The Crafting and Analysis of Stories as Research
Sairah Ahmed, Guilherme Feitosa de Almeida, Halkano Hargura et al.
Asian Qualitative Inquiry Journal Vol. 4 No. 1 / 2025.06, 111-116 (6 Pages)
ABSTRACT
Understanding Narrative Inquiry by Jeong-Hee Kim presents a comprehensive text exploring narrative inquiry “embracing
both the depth and breadth” of this form of research methodology (Kim, 2016, p. xvi).
Kim thoughtfully addresses each stage of the research process, offering a range of strategies to validate findings
and ensure analytical trustworthiness. Understanding Narrative Inquiry highlights narrative inquiry’s interdisciplinary context, philosophical and theoretical structure, research design, genre, data collection methods,
analysis and interpretation, and coding techniques. Literary prose is used in each section of the text, drawing on
the author’s own experiences to convey key tenets of narrative inquiry. Taking the reader into the world of
narrative inquiry by appealing to the senses gives each section of the book some added texture.
This unique style allows the reader to experience narrative inquiry as an insider to the machinations of
this method and to envision themselves as qualitative researchers who are living and experiencing narrative inquiry.
KEYWORDS: narrative inquiry, qualitative methods, literary theory, cross-cultural studies.
[Peer-Reviewed Article]
The Anti-War Voice of Buffy Sainte-Marie
Guilherme Feitosa de Almeida
New Sound International Journal of Music Vol. 58 No. II / 2021, 161-172 (12 Pages)
ABSTRACT
Universal soldier (1964), Soldier Blue (1970), and The War Racket (2017) represent some of Buffy Sainte-Marie's
most prominent anti-war songwriting, where she demonstrates her poietic process as an artist and activist.
Considering her anti-war utterance, I will analyze these selected songs and place them in Buffy Sainte-Marie's
work as an activist and performer. Additionally, I intend to interpret her musical production through
semiotics and hermeneutics that center her contemporary voice as an artist of First Nations descent.
By charting the contemporary landscape of her work in both the 1960s to 1970s and the 2000s, I will seek relationships
between the process of representation (of the feminine and indigenous identities)
and assimilation (mainstream music and the media) within her anti-war utterance.
KEYWORDS: Buffy Sainte-Marie, Anti-War Art and Performance, Protest Song, Transindigenous, Native American Representation, Feminine Representation, Native American Assimilation, Aesthetics and Poiesis.