Co-imagining the History of a Village: Autoethnographer as Verbalizer of Experience-Based Knowledge
: Kouri Jaana
: Morrison, Kevin A. and Rantala, Pälvi
: New York and Abingdon, Oxon
: 2023
: Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past. Methods of Knowing
: 197
: 212
: 15
: 978-1-03-218088-5
: 978-1-00-325280-1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003252801-15
: 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.