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	Kritisk livshistorisk forskning	Kritisk narrativ forskning – Att utmana makt genom personliga berättelser
Ämnesområde	Kvalitativa metoder	Kvalitativa metoder
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	1980s–1990s	1990s–2000s
Upphovsperson	Ivor Goodson; influenced by critical theory traditions (Freire, Habermas, feminist scholars)	Synthesises D. Jean Clandinin & F. Michael Connelly (narrative inquiry) with critical theory traditions (Kincheloe, McLaren, hooks)
Typ	Qualitative research design	Critical qualitative research approach
Ursprungskälla	Goodson, I. F., & Sikes, P. (2001). Life History Research in Educational Settings: Learning from Lives. Open University Press. ISBN: 978-0335205530	Clandinin, D. J., & Connelly, F. M. (2000). Narrative Inquiry: Experience and Story in Qualitative Research. Jossey-Bass. ISBN: 978-0787943999
Alias	critical biographical research, critical life history, critical life history method, critical biographical inquiry	CNI, critical narrative research, critical narrative analysis, narrative inquiry with critical lens
Närliggande	6	6
Sammanfattning	Critical life history research combines the biographical depth of life history methodology with critical theory perspectives — drawing on feminist, Marxist, postcolonial, or critical race frameworks — to examine how structural power relations, social inequalities, and institutional forces shape individual lives. Rather than treating a life story as a purely personal account, this approach reads it as evidence of wider social and political conditions, using individual narratives to surface systemic patterns of oppression, resistance, and agency.	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.