A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book

Co-imagining the History of a Village: Autoethnographer as Verbalizer of Experience-Based Knowledge




AuthorsKouri Jaana

EditorsMorrison, Kevin A. and Rantala, Pälvi

Publishing placeNew York and Abingdon, Oxon

Publication year2023

Book title Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past. Methods of Knowing

First page 197

Last page212

Number of pages15

ISBN978-1-03-218088-5

eISBN978-1-00-325280-1

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781003252801-15

Web address https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003252801-15/co-imagining-history-village-jaana-kouri


Abstract

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.



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