Undertaking a practice-led, qualitative research inquiry, I forged an alternate methodology where narrative inquiry, sensory ethnography, and ethnographically based poetry intersect and open a space “in-between.” I call these intersections between narrative approaches and experiments in ethnography “Sensory Poetic Relationship Mapping” (SPRM). I discovered that metaphorical spaces, places, gateways, sites of inquiry and “counter-factual spaces” can come into being. The process of SPRM enabled “hidden” community-based narratives to be revealed through dialogue, narrative, poetry, metaphor, and handmade relationship maps. As an act of creative resistance, this offered alternate voices to the dominant narratives communicated by interconnected institutions of power. SPRM cracked open the metaphorical landscape in which these marginalized stories had been relegated to the periphery, so they could flow. These narratives rewoven to the center unexpectedly interconnected and revealed new sites for future inquiry.

进行以实践为主导的定性研究调查，我打造了一种替代方法，其中叙事调查、感官民族志和基于民族志的诗歌相交并打开了一个“中间”空间。我将民族志中叙事方法和实验之间的这些交叉称为“感官诗意关系映射”（SPRM）。我发现隐喻空间、地点、门户、探究地点和“反事实空间”可以产生。SPRM 的过程使“隐藏”的基于社区的叙事能够通过对话、叙事、诗歌、隐喻和手工制作的关系图来揭示。作为一种创造性的抵抗行为，这为相互关联的权力机构传达的主导叙事提供了替代声音。SPRM 打破了这些被边缘化的故事被归为边缘的隐喻景观，因此它们可以流动。这些重新编排到中心的叙述出人意料地相互关联，并揭示了未来调查的新地点。