A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Co-imagining the History of a Village: Autoethnographer as Verbalizer of Experience-Based Knowledge
Authors: Kouri Jaana
Editors: Morrison, Kevin A. and Rantala, Pälvi
Publishing place: New York and Abingdon, Oxon
Publication year: 2023
Book title : Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past. Methods of Knowing
First page : 197
Last page: 212
Number of pages: 15
ISBN: 978-1-03-218088-5
eISBN: 978-1-00-325280-1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003252801-15
Web address : https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003252801-15/co-imagining-history-village-jaana-kouri
In this chapter, I describe the autoethnographic method to produce writings, which I used as a part of my research material of the history production of the village of Lypyrtti, an old pilot village in the southwestern archipelago of Finland. The nostalgic narration of the villagers turned my attention to the meaning of the fluid environmental context of the village, especially its non-human actors as co-imaginators, and to my own body as a tool for mediating local, tacit, and experience-based knowledge by writing. I give two examples of co-imagination with environmental actors: swimming as imagining with water and rowing as experimental co-imagining.