Conversational storytelling research methods: cats, dogs, and humans in pet capitalism. Issue 4 (2nd October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Boje, David M.; Rosile, Grace Ann
• Is Part Of: Communication research and practice. Volume 5:Issue 4(2019)
• Page Start: 309
• Page End: 326
• Publication Date: 2019-10-02
• Subjects: Pet capitalism -- antenarrative -- conversational storytelling -- ethnomethodology -- unstoryable -- unnarrativizable; Communication -- Periodicals; Communication and traffic -- Periodicals; Mass media -- Periodicals; 302.205
• DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2019.1683800
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2204-1451

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This essay is about methods of interpretation of conversational storytelling. By doing what Donna Haraway calls 'multispecies storytelling' research involving humans, dogs, and various animal organisations, we use storytelling to study what we call 'pet capitalism'. We address the problems of interpreting story fragments in multispecies storytelling conversations in order to explore the Tamara-Land of organisational contexts of animal organisations within pet capitalism. We explore what Linda Hitchin calls 'untold stories', such as the euthanasia consequences of pet capitalism. We examine what those untold stories tell us about the animal-human-organisation's resistance to being researched as pet capitalism. We apply Jean Paul Sartre's existentialism and Harold Garfinkel's ethnomethodology to the problem of intersubjectivity. Finally, we discuss implications of our explorations for the intersubjectivity of storytelling conversations which have unstoryable and unnarrativizable aspects of the multispecies storytelling of pet capitalism.