Includes bibliographical references.

Looking backward and forward to relational narrative inquiry -- The relational ontology of narrative inquiry shapes relational ethics -- The living and telling of narrative inquiry in the arts club -- Nurturing [wilder] gardens, love, and narrative anew / Brenda Rossow Kimball -- The relational ethics of attending with wide-awakeness to the ongoingness of experience -- Making masala : shaping a multiperspectival narrative inquiry through a re-search of and for storied images / Jinny Menon -- The relational ethics of moving slowly in ways that allow for listening and living -- Embracing tensions through narrative inquiry into experiences of people who are homeless in Japan / Hiroko Kubota -- The relational ethics of engaging with imagination, improvisation, playfulness and world-travelling -- Dwelling (together in the depths of (un/not) knowing / Muna Saleh -- The relational ethics of always engaging with a sense of uncertainty and not knowing -- All my relations / Dustin Brass -- Relational ethics as lived embodiments that require us to be still and attend to, and with, silence and contemplation -- Ways of departure : contemplating relational ethics in narrative inquiry -- Living relational ethics -- Afterword : the ethics and politics of narrative inquiry / Jerry Lee Rosiek.

"Relational ethics is at the heart of narrative inquiry; it should guide and shape all forms of narrative inquiry. This books takes on a conceptual framework for the practice of relational ethics in research, using a broadly ontological approach. It can be read as a standalone text or in conjunction with Engaging in Narrative Inquiry and Engaging in Narrative Inquiry with Children and Youth to give an in-depth discourse around the main issues in narrative inquiry research"-- Provided by publisher.