Chapter 35 Migration and Narrative Dynamics

How can narrative theory account for the changing roles of storytelling and storysharing in the public sphere? This essay proposes a new concept of narrative dynamics, one that generates well-constrained descriptions of specific elements, features, or qualities of narratives, as well as programmatic claims concerning their potential uses and effects. Narrative dynamics research is equally inter…

Beyond Narrative

Already two decades ago, writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Peter Brooks forcefully declared the narrative turn to be over. “The notion,” he stated, “that narrative is part of a universal cognitive tool kit, which seemed in the mid-60’s a radical discovery, is now one of the banalities of postmodernism

Security, Disinformation and Harmful Narratives: RT and Sputnik News Coverage…

The European Council announced a ban on the Russian media outlets RT and Sputnik in March 2022, just weeks after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The invasion has cost many thousands of lives, created millions of Ukrainian refugees, and caused enormous material damage, but also increased the disinformation activities of Russia in Ukraine and the rest of Europe. The two Russi…

Narrative Praktiken von Unternehmen

Die vorliegende Monographie meiner Dissertation ist dank der Unterstützung vieler Menschen entstanden. Einige standen mir während des gesamten Prozesses zur Seite und andere sprangen mir in situativ aufkommenden Herausforderungen tatkräftig zur Seite. Ihnen allen danke ich herzlich für ihr Engagement und ihr Mitwirken: So gilt mein Dank meiner Erstbetreuerin Frau Prof. Dr. Helga Kottho…

Reflective Reading and the Power of Narrative : Producing the Reader

Reflective Reading and the Power of Narrative: Producing the Reader is an interdisciplinary exploration into the profound power of narratives to create—and recreate—how we imagine ourselves. It posits that the process of producing a text also produces the reader. Written from the perspective of a psychoanalytic feminist, Sproles considers a wide array of examples from literature, popular cu…

Black women's stories of everyday racism: narrative analysis for social change

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Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind

"With Storytelling and the Science of Mind, David Herman proposes a cross-fertilization between the study of narrative and research on intelligent behavior. This cross-fertilization goes beyond the simple importing of ideas from the sciences of mind into scholarship on narrative and instead aims for convergence between work in narrative studies and research in the cognitive sciences. The book a…

Language and Belonging Local Categories and Practices in a Guatemalan Highla…

In this book, the author introduces belonging from a sociolinguistic perspective as a concept that is accomplished in interaction. Belonging can be expressed linguistically in social, spatial and temporal categories – indexing rootedness, groupness and cohesion. It can also be captured through shared linguistic practices within a group, e.g. collectively shared narrative practices. Using conv…