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[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