ABSTRACT
We have had the linguistic turn, the cultural turn, the spatial turn and in recent years even the affective turn. This volume elaborates on the concept of the biographical turn: the emergence of biographical research as an accepted critical scholarly method of investigation since 1980. This is perhaps not one of those concepts that harbours great and innovative theoretical ambitions to create a fundamental change in our way of viewing the world, but is nonetheless a development that indicates a significant evolution in humanities research over the last three decades.
