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	Indagine Narrativa Critica	Etnografia Critica
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1990s–2000s	Late 20th century (~1980s–1993 systematisation)
Ideatore	Synthesises D. Jean Clandinin & F. Michael Connelly (narrative inquiry) with critical theory traditions (Kincheloe, McLaren, hooks)	Jim Thomas (systematised); rooted in Frankfurt School critical theory (Adorno, Horkheimer) and feminist/postcolonial traditions
Tipo	Critical qualitative research approach	Qualitative research method
Fonte seminale	Clandinin, D. J., & Connelly, F. M. (2000). Narrative Inquiry: Experience and Story in Qualitative Research. Jossey-Bass. ISBN: 978-0787943999	Thomas, J. (1993). Doing Critical Ethnography. Sage Publications.
Alias	CNI, critical narrative research, critical narrative analysis, narrative inquiry with critical lens	critical ethnographic research, critical qualitative ethnography, advocacy ethnography, emancipatory ethnography
Correlati	6	6
Sintesi	Critical narrative inquiry is a qualitative research approach that collects and analyses personal stories to expose how social structures, power relations, and systemic inequities shape individual experience. It merges the interpretive richness of narrative inquiry with the emancipatory commitments of critical theory, asking not only what happened in a life but also why — and whose interests are served by dominant stories remaining untold or unquestioned.	Critical ethnography is a qualitative research approach that combines sustained fieldwork immersion with explicit critical theory to examine how power, inequality, and ideology shape the lived experiences of marginalised communities. Unlike conventional ethnography, which aims to describe a culture as it is, critical ethnography commits the researcher to questioning what is taken for granted and to producing knowledge that can serve as a resource for social change. Rooted in Frankfurt School critical theory and expanded through feminist, postcolonial, and race-critical traditions, it treats the research process itself as a political act.