ABSTRACT
In this chapter Vera Caine, Sean Lessard, and D. J. Clandinin explore the place of response communities in narrative inquiry: how they are formed, how they function and the purposes they serve. Drawing on a multi-year research study alongside Indigenous youth and their families, they explore how response communities keep them at further relationships, create possibilities to return to data, and further questions about participants and their own lives. They show how response communities are formed or sustained intentionally, through ongoing negotiations of processes, of places, and people coming together. They highlight seven interwoven features of response communities.
