Performing Communit(y)ies

Abstract: This paper tells the story of a group of community workers, activists and academics who came together, in a participatory inquiry, to explore "good news stories of difference and resistance". Using an organising principle of social change from the margins we engaged in, and collected, local stories of hope, ordinary resistances and success. Using simple strategies such as story telling, purposeful listening, fun, laughter, food and creativity we sought to celebrate, document, analyse and make visible our successes and nurture each other. After five years 40 people came together to plan and host a creative community conference in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales (NSW, Australia). As a result of this a creative reflective writing group was established to reflect on this event using WINTER, BUCK and SOBIECHOWSKA's (1999) notion of a patchwork text and RICHARDSON's (2000) writing as inquiry as theoretical and methodological underpinnings. Concerned with talking with, rather than t.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/395

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Performing Communit(y)ies ; volume:9 ; number:2 ; day:31 ; month:05 ; year:2008 ; Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 9, Heft 2 (31.05.2008)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Horsfall, Debbie

Further information

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-9.2.395
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0802573
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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