The purpose of this study is to analyze potential values of narrative inquiry in disability
research. Through literature review, this study analyzes how narrative inquiry can disrupt
habitual representation of disability and oppressive knowledge production. This study, first of
all, examines the concept of narrative inquiry by exploring what distinguishes it from other
research approaches. This study further examines how poststructuralist researchers complexify
discourses of narrative inquiry through the reconceptualized notions of identity, experience,
language, and power relations. Next, the potentials and possibilities that the narrative inquiry
approach has in disability research are discussed. Then, this study reviews two studies that
adopt narrative inquiry as a methodology to illuminate lived lives of people with visual
impairment. This study claims that narrative inquiry can interrogate and challenge the master
narratives of disability because it asks a different question, takes a indeterministic stance, and
promotes researchers’ self-reflexivity. This study concludes that narrative inquiry is a less
violent research methodology than the traditional positivist research approaches because it
threatens any confidence of researchers in making truth claims about lives of people with
disabilities.