ABSTRACT
Listen: you are not yourself, you are crowds of others, you are as leaky a vessel as was ever made . . .
Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
Each analysis chapter has provided detailed extracts from the transcripts including my own contribution to the unfolding stories, allowing the reader to observe the dialogue rather than a stripped-back monologue. As Barbara Tedlock observes, the self-conscious task of ethnographic writing, and I would suggest all post-structural qualitative research, is to ‘braid the oral with the written and to give shape to a multi-vocal aesthetics of diversity’ (2004: 23).
