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Stories Changing Lives - Narratives and Paths toward Social Change (Hardcover)
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Stories Changing Lives - Narratives and Paths toward Social Change (Hardcover)
Series: Explorations in Narrative Psychology
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Personal narrative and its significance for social change is a
prominent topic in the psychological and wider social sciences. Yet
while the importance of narrative for social change is commonly
assumed by narrative researchers, no single text addresses it
exclusively and from a variety of scholarly perspectives. Stories
Changing Lives explores the strong and qualified significance of
personal stories and how they catalyze and contribute to social
change. The first of the book's three sections examines the
embeddedness of personal narratives within larger narratives, and
how these narratives shift towards justice. The second section
considers how narrative language supports and generates social
change. Finally, the concluding section addresses the ways in which
re-narrations of the past taking place in the present, and
narrations of the future using the present and past, impact social
change. Stories Changing Lives sets out the theory and methodology
underpinning a range of narrative projects that are committed to
progressive change, delineating the strengths and limitations of
that research. Chapters focus on projects in Africa, South and
North America, and Europe, and bring to the fore the multiplicity
of stories, narrative multimodalities, and the importance of
intersectionality; they also highlight the interdisciplinarity,
historical reach, and transnationalism of narrative research. This
volume will further develop our understanding of generating
narratives and pursuing social change as two intertwined processes
that exemplify the personally and socially transformative
characteristics of politics.
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