Native Narratives: Hybrid Plots? Emergence of new Self in Multicultural Organisational Context
Kimberley, Anna (2017)
2017
All rights reserved. This publication is copyrighted. You may download, display and print it for Your own personal use. Commercial use is prohibited.
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201904084548
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201904084548
Tiivistelmä
This work-in-progress paper presents the initial findings of a pilot study aimed at testing the validity of the
methodology chosen for PhD exploratory research: narrative inquiry, storytelling, life-story interview, with Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) as analytical approach, and template analysis and In Vivo coding as analytical tools. The overall aim of the research is to establish an understanding of and determine the impact of a colonial past in the individual’s identity formation, and assess its further impact on “postcolonial” identity performance in the western organisational context. The theoretical approach draws from Critical Theory and Postcolonial Theory, which allow for questioning the prevailing western ontological perception of the ‘other’. The pilot study comprised four semi-structured and open interviews. The initial findings show that the selected methodology is the most appropriate, as it gives space and voices to the
marginalized ‘other’. Preliminary analysis of the narrative accounts reveals that cultural identities of the participants are formed by the values firmly grounded in their native cultures, and are still linked to their colonial past.
methodology chosen for PhD exploratory research: narrative inquiry, storytelling, life-story interview, with Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) as analytical approach, and template analysis and In Vivo coding as analytical tools. The overall aim of the research is to establish an understanding of and determine the impact of a colonial past in the individual’s identity formation, and assess its further impact on “postcolonial” identity performance in the western organisational context. The theoretical approach draws from Critical Theory and Postcolonial Theory, which allow for questioning the prevailing western ontological perception of the ‘other’. The pilot study comprised four semi-structured and open interviews. The initial findings show that the selected methodology is the most appropriate, as it gives space and voices to the
marginalized ‘other’. Preliminary analysis of the narrative accounts reveals that cultural identities of the participants are formed by the values firmly grounded in their native cultures, and are still linked to their colonial past.