In this contribution, we place narrative theory in conversation with narrative practice to offer a small storymaking approach for engendering organizational change. Drawing on insights from counter-narrative studies, small story analysis, and communicative approaches to organizational change, we offer an applied narratology that conceptualizes organizational change as occurring in small storymaking practices. Embracing discourse and communication as constitutive of organizations, we invite narrative scholars to move beyond traditional distanced researcher positions to participate more actively in the co-creation of small stories and thus enable more participatory, collaborative organizational change practices. Rather than merely interpreting organizational stories, as in many traditional narrative studies, our applied narratology encourages researchers to invite organizational participants to co-create stories of their potential futures. Through this tension-filled practice of organizational small storymaking, narrative researchers and leaders can generate the ‘small story openings’ necessary to inspire innovative change.
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This study contributes to a methodological debate within narrative studies, emerging from the specific context of narrative criminology. It examines the evolution of storytelling styles, focusing on how the narrative selection process shapes a narrative, thereby revealing both the origins of narratives and their capacity to offer critical insights into the narrator’s perspective. This research specifically investigates the change of how narratives about the same events or topics, as recounted by two different individuals, change over time in terms of their narrative construction. Focusing on crime narratives provided by two participants – a drug dealer and a gangmaster – first in 2019 and again in 2023, the study demonstrates how these narratives not only evolve in structural complexity but also incorporate more sophisticated elements that highlight the narrators’ agency, rationalize or justify their criminal actions, or depict complex criminal identities. The findings underscore the potent methodological contributions this approach can make to narrative criminology, offering new insights into criminal behavior and dynamics that might not be as apparent in single-time-point interviews. This approach thus enriches the broader narrative studies discourse by applying its techniques and insights to the unique challenges and structures of criminal narratives.
{"title":"Modus narrandi sceleris: Temporal shift in the crafting style of crime narratives","authors":"Fabio Indìo Massimo Poppi","doi":"10.1075/ni.24007.pop","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.24007.pop","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study contributes to a methodological debate within narrative studies, emerging from the specific context of\u0000 narrative criminology. It examines the evolution of storytelling styles, focusing on how the narrative selection process shapes a\u0000 narrative, thereby revealing both the origins of narratives and their capacity to offer critical insights into the narrator’s\u0000 perspective. This research specifically investigates the change of how narratives about the same events or topics, as recounted by\u0000 two different individuals, change over time in terms of their narrative construction. Focusing on crime narratives provided by two\u0000 participants – a drug dealer and a gangmaster – first in 2019 and again in 2023, the study demonstrates how these narratives not\u0000 only evolve in structural complexity but also incorporate more sophisticated elements that highlight the narrators’ agency,\u0000 rationalize or justify their criminal actions, or depict complex criminal identities. The findings underscore the potent\u0000 methodological contributions this approach can make to narrative criminology, offering new insights into criminal behavior and\u0000 dynamics that might not be as apparent in single-time-point interviews. This approach thus enriches the broader narrative studies\u0000 discourse by applying its techniques and insights to the unique challenges and structures of criminal narratives.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141100888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Criminology is foundationally an applied discipline, or one whose knowledge seeks to shape some non-academic practice. Narratives – particularly the narratives of parties to ‘crime’ – are essential to criminology, but criminologists have hardly engaged with narratology. This paper tracks the progression from traditional narrative research involving harm agents and criminalized persons to a relatively new narrative criminology that is attentive to narrative forms and strategies inasmuch as it considers these as shaping harm. In addition, the paper forecasts narrative criminology’s fruitful engagement in concepts from rhetorical narratology. Interviews with men who perpetrated violence and insights from restorative justice encounters are used to demonstrate the potential value of rhetorical narratological concepts to narrative criminology and to interventions informed by narrative criminology.
{"title":"Narratology, applied","authors":"Lois Presser","doi":"10.1075/ni.22060.pre","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.22060.pre","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Criminology is foundationally an applied discipline, or one whose knowledge seeks to shape some non-academic practice. Narratives – particularly the narratives of parties to ‘crime’ – are essential to criminology, but criminologists have hardly engaged with narratology. This paper tracks the progression from traditional narrative research involving harm agents and criminalized persons to a relatively new narrative criminology that is attentive to narrative forms and strategies inasmuch as it considers these as shaping harm. In addition, the paper forecasts narrative criminology’s fruitful engagement in concepts from rhetorical narratology. Interviews with men who perpetrated violence and insights from restorative justice encounters are used to demonstrate the potential value of rhetorical narratological concepts to narrative criminology and to interventions informed by narrative criminology.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140752925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eevastiina Kinnunen, Hanna Meretoja, Päivi Kosonen
In this article, we discuss a dialogue between narrative theory, reading group practices, and analysis of reading group participants’ experiences. Hanna Meretoja’s theory of narrative agency has informed us in developing a new reading group model that aims to enhance the participants’ narrative agency, and, in turn, the analysis of the reading group experiences provides us with new knowledge on the reading group model, as well as on the theoretical approach. We explore narrative agency analysis as a tool to analyze interviews, and our analysis of three participants’ experiences illustrates how narrative agency can manifest itself in various forms. It also demonstrates that the enhanced ability to navigate narrative environments can be highly meaningful on a personal level. The article suggests that, despite its challenges, this kind of research approach, combining theory and practice, enriches and expands the possibilities of literary studies.
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Eevastiina Kinnunen, Hanna Meretoja, Päivi Kosonen
In this article, we discuss a dialogue between narrative theory, reading group practices, and analysis of reading group participants’ experiences. Hanna Meretoja’s theory of narrative agency has informed us in developing a new reading group model that aims to enhance the participants’ narrative agency, and, in turn, the analysis of the reading group experiences provides us with new knowledge on the reading group model, as well as on the theoretical approach. We explore narrative agency analysis as a tool to analyze interviews, and our analysis of three participants’ experiences illustrates how narrative agency can manifest itself in various forms. It also demonstrates that the enhanced ability to navigate narrative environments can be highly meaningful on a personal level. The article suggests that, despite its challenges, this kind of research approach, combining theory and practice, enriches and expands the possibilities of literary studies.
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This paper advances the field of narratives by focusing on the narratives of personal experience disclosed by students with mental health conditions, in particular depression, anxiety and borderline personality disorder, in medical consultations. I draw on sociolinguistic and discourse-analytic approaches to the analysis of narratives in interaction, viewing language as a tool for constructing social reality, and examine the content, structural properties and functions of the stories (Labov & Waletzky, 1967; De Fina & Georgakopoulou, 2011). Engaging in self-disclosure and sharing stories of stressful and traumatic experience in medical consultations allows the students (1) to explain symptoms and interpret causes of their current health problems, (2) manage accountability, and (3) confront and cope with their painful experience and stigma.
本文通过关注患有精神疾病（尤其是抑郁症、焦虑症和边缘型人格障碍）的学生在就诊时披露的个人经历叙事，推进了叙事领域的研究。我借鉴了社会语言学和话语分析方法来分析互动中的叙述，将语言视为构建社会现实的工具，并研究了故事的内容、结构属性和功能（Labov & Waletzky, 1967; De Fina & Georgakopoulou, 2011）。在医疗咨询中进行自我披露并分享压力和创伤经历的故事，可使学生（1）解释症状并解释其当前健康问题的原因，（2）管理责任，以及（3）正视并应对其痛苦经历和耻辱。
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This article presents an exercise in applied narratology within the context of intensive care nursing, specifically the writing of diaries by nurses for patients to fill in memory gaps and alleviate trauma. The article discusses narrative from three perspectives: (1) as nursing practice, resulting in patient diaries with narrative characteristics and purposes; (2) as analysis of this practice, in a study coupling narrative and nursing theory and practice; and (3) as the application of narratological concepts into practice through dialogues with nurses, with the aim of transferring insights gained from the analysis and enabling nurses’ reflection on their positions, practices and power as narrators for patients. The article argues that narratology can be operationalized for nursing work, and there are compelling reasons for why it should, which necessitate methodological reflexivity and mutual curiosity, trust, and learning, and considerations about how far the remit of the narratologist, as a non-expert, extends.
{"title":"Applying narratology to nursing practice","authors":"C. Maagaard, Eva Ann Lærkner","doi":"10.1075/ni.22032.maa","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.22032.maa","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article presents an exercise in applied narratology within the context of intensive care nursing, specifically the writing of diaries by nurses for patients to fill in memory gaps and alleviate trauma. The article discusses narrative from three perspectives: (1) as nursing practice, resulting in patient diaries with narrative characteristics and purposes; (2) as analysis of this practice, in a study coupling narrative and nursing theory and practice; and (3) as the application of narratological concepts into practice through dialogues with nurses, with the aim of transferring insights gained from the analysis and enabling nurses’ reflection on their positions, practices and power as narrators for patients. The article argues that narratology can be operationalized for nursing work, and there are compelling reasons for why it should, which necessitate methodological reflexivity and mutual curiosity, trust, and learning, and considerations about how far the remit of the narratologist, as a non-expert, extends.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140487407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mehmet Ali Üzelgün, Hossein Turner, Rahmi Oruç, Goncagül Şahin
Non-fictional narratives have an open-ended character that projects roles and values to those who participate in them. Narrative participation, in turn, entails narrative assessment and identification processes, through which adherence to values and positions may fail or be achieved. In the analysis of interviews with university students across Turkey, we draw on Fisher’s narrative paradigm to focus on how our participants carry out assessments of narrative credibility. To elucidate narrative coherence and fidelity, we take inspiration from an argumentative-rhetorical perspective, and focus specifically on the relationship among the criteria identified in the literature on narrative assessment. Our study of interviewee evaluations of COVID-19 narratives confirms the use of the coherence criteria, calls into question the fidelity criteria, and highlights the relevance of identification as a basic process for fidelity assessments. We conclude by discussing our limitations and directions for further research.
{"title":"Assessing coherence and fidelity","authors":"Mehmet Ali Üzelgün, Hossein Turner, Rahmi Oruç, Goncagül Şahin","doi":"10.1075/ni.23053.uze","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.23053.uze","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Non-fictional narratives have an open-ended character that projects roles and values to those who participate in\u0000 them. Narrative participation, in turn, entails narrative assessment and identification processes, through which adherence to\u0000 values and positions may fail or be achieved. In the analysis of interviews with university students across Turkey, we draw on\u0000 Fisher’s narrative paradigm to focus on how our participants carry out assessments of narrative credibility. To elucidate\u0000 narrative coherence and fidelity, we take inspiration from an argumentative-rhetorical perspective, and focus specifically on the\u0000 relationship among the criteria identified in the literature on narrative assessment. Our study of interviewee evaluations of\u0000 COVID-19 narratives confirms the use of the coherence criteria, calls into question the fidelity criteria, and highlights the\u0000 relevance of identification as a basic process for fidelity assessments. We conclude by discussing our limitations and directions\u0000 for further research.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139528477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mari Hatavara, Kirsi Sandberg, Mykola Andrushchenko, Sari Hälikkö, J. Nummenmaa, Timo Nummenmaa, Jaakko Peltonen, Matti Hyvärinen
Computational recognition of narratives, if successful, would find innumerable applications with large digitized datasets. Systematic identification of narratives in the text flow could significantly contribute to such pivotal questions as where, when, and how narratives are employed. This paper discusses an approach to extract narratives from two datasets, Finnish parliamentary records (1980–2021) and oral history interviews with former Finnish MPs (1988–2018). Our study was based on an iterative approach, proceeding from original expert readings to a rule-based, computational approach that was elaborated with the help of annotated samples and annotation scheme. Annotated samples and computationally found extracts were compared, and a good correspondence was found. In this paper, we exhibit and compare the results from annotation and rule-based approach, and discuss examples of correctly and incorrectly found narrative sections. We consider that all attempts at recognizing and extracting narratives are definition dependent, and feed back to narrative theory.
{"title":"Computational recognition of narratives","authors":"Mari Hatavara, Kirsi Sandberg, Mykola Andrushchenko, Sari Hälikkö, J. Nummenmaa, Timo Nummenmaa, Jaakko Peltonen, Matti Hyvärinen","doi":"10.1075/ni.22028.hat","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.22028.hat","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Computational recognition of narratives, if successful, would find innumerable applications with large digitized\u0000 datasets. Systematic identification of narratives in the text flow could significantly contribute to such pivotal questions as\u0000 where, when, and how narratives are employed. This paper discusses an approach to extract narratives from two datasets, Finnish\u0000 parliamentary records (1980–2021) and oral history interviews with former Finnish MPs (1988–2018). Our study was based on an\u0000 iterative approach, proceeding from original expert readings to a rule-based, computational approach that was elaborated with the\u0000 help of annotated samples and annotation scheme. Annotated samples and computationally found extracts were compared, and a good\u0000 correspondence was found. In this paper, we exhibit and compare the results from annotation and rule-based approach, and discuss\u0000 examples of correctly and incorrectly found narrative sections. We consider that all attempts at recognizing and extracting\u0000 narratives are definition dependent, and feed back to narrative theory.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139618797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alaina Leverenz, Jennifer G. Bohanek, Robyn Fivush
Abstract Individuals create both personal and culturally shared meaning through narratives; however, sparse research has explored the specific ways in which individuals might use such cultural narratives in creating meaning from developmentally important experiences. In this study, we examine how emerging adults narrate positive romantic relationships, both because emerging adulthood is critical for the development of intimacy and because romantic relationship narratives are pervasive in cultural media. Thematic analysis of 31 narratives from mostly European-descent students attending a private liberal arts university in the Southeast US (mean age 19; 16 self-identified females) revealed three major narrative arcs, Love Grows, Firecrackers and Fairytale , which varied in coherence, coda, and mutuality of the relationship, but did not differ by gender. Further examination and discussion of these narratives suggest how emerging adults are making sense of their first romantic relationships in ways that inform efforts to educate and intervene to promote healthy and positive relationships.
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