Abstract
Stories are more than they seem. Stories can connect humans with other humans, more-than-human things, animals, places and times. And stories can disrupt dominant ways of knowing and being in the world (Ranco & Haverkamp, 2022). Re-telling stories of connection and disruption in research, this paper shares four short autoethnographic musings, or methodological memories. These are thoughts and events which got stuck (MacRae et al., 2018) during-after ethnographic research of an intergenerational music programme, Rebuilding Bridges. Additionally, to illustrate the un/expected, un/comfortable and un/knowable nature of attempting to do intergenerational research post-qualitatively, fragments of an intergenerational story titled ‘Alfred the Gorilla’, itself curated from storied data, are diffractively (Barad, 2007, 2014) woven into the discussion. These stories as and of data, I suggest, hold promise through their resistance to bounded accounts of the research process, their affective resonances and residues, and their potential for thinking, doing and writing research differently.
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