Storyworlding: an outline of the philosophic commitments and research applications of a new feminist methodology*

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a new feminist methodology, storyworlding. Storyworlding is a feminist, participatory methodology to engage in culturally informed and ethnographically rich stories through which we establish our being together. The paper explores crucial onto-epistemological shifts in two important concepts—world and story as the basis for how we engaged storyworlding while also advancing the Marxist idea of praxis in order to propose a social just orientation of collective doing and becoming. Our methodological contribution includes identifying four key momentums we affiliate with storyworlding practices. We conclude with a conceptualization of Storyworlding as Collective Self-Agency and the methodological implications of that conceptualization.