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Insistent Humanness in Data Collection and Analysis: What Cannot be Taken Away—The Families and Prisons Project

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Bissell offers the idea of insistent humanness as a research concept critical to challenging the narrative authority of dehumanizing institutions—in this case of jail and prison. Through an analysis of one project, he demonstrates how arts-based participatory research methods of data collection and analysis lead to nuanced and incomplete narratives of experience that reflect an insistent humanness. With critical implications for the field of public health and community-based participatory research, he argues that this shift in narrative authority is essential to challenging who can drive the production of knowledge, what types of knowledge are valued, and in what form knowledge is made actionable.

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Bissell, E. (2018). Insistent Humanness in Data Collection and Analysis: What Cannot be Taken Away—The Families and Prisons Project. In: Capous-Desyllas, M., Morgaine, K. (eds) Creating Social Change Through Creativity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52129-9_7

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