Concept Of Narrative Research Articles

Recalibrating the Local Lens: Drivers and Transformations of the European Union's Territorial Agenda in the Southern Neighbourhood

AbstractSince its inception, the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has incorporated a local lens in its engagement with Southern partners. However, the capacity of local authorities to enact the political autonomy expected by the European Union (EU) is distant from reality. The article mobilizes the concept of hegemonic narratives in the cases of Morocco and Tunisia to problematize the set of discourses that establish the common understanding of ‘the local’ in the ENP's territorial agenda. We present three narratives that became hegemonic across ENP implementation: ‘the local’ as an agent of development, ‘the local’ as an agent of democratization and ‘the local’ as a provider of resilience. The evidence presented allows us to conclude that ‘the local’ acts as an empty signifier in the EU's territorial agenda in its Southern Neighbourhood. Whilst these narratives have certainly served centralizing trends, they have also been mobilized by or in support of emerging actors that contest them.

Analisis Perjalanan Rama pada Relief Ramayana Candi Prambanan untuk Konsep Naratif Animasi dengan Pendekatan Hero’s Journey

The Analysis of Rama’s Journey on the Ramayana Reliefs of Prambanan Temple for Animated Narrative Concept Using the Approach of Hero’s Journey . Reliefs of the Ramayana story can be found on the walls of the Shiva temple and the Brahma temple in Prambanan temple. The scene of each relief panel is well arranged so that a complete series of stories about Rama’s journey to save his wife Sinta is formed. The Ramayana relief of Prambanan temple is a narrative relief consisting of 76 scenes. The purpose of this research is to find the stages of the Ramayana storyline which is found in the Ramayana relief at Prambanan temple using the Hero’s Journey story structure. The research used qualitative research methods. Data were collected by observation, interviews, documents review, and literature studies. The collected data were analyzed, presented, discussed, and formed into conclusions as a result of the research.

Integrating systems of power and privilege in the study of resilience.

Although current approaches to the study of resilience acknowledge the role of context, rarely do those conceptualizations attend to societal systems and structures that include hierarchies of power and privilege-namely systems of racism, colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism-nor do they articulate how these structural realities are embedded within individual experiences. We offer critiques of the current literature from this structural lens, using the concept of master narratives to articulate the incomplete and, at times, damaging story that the discipline of psychology has told about resilience. We then provide three models that center history, systems, and structures of society that can be employed in the study of resilience. We close with lessons learned from listening to those voices who have been marginalized by mainstream society, lessons that require us to redefine, broaden, and deepen our conceptualization of resilience. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

Conceptual narratives in translated discourse: Ideology and social values at an intersection or crossroads

Conceptual narratives in translated discourse: Ideology and social values at an intersection or crossroads

Storytelling with disability and broken narratives

This Current Issues piece is a primarily creative piece of writing that takes as its starting point the concept of broken narratives. In writing with her own disability, the author, a wheelchair user, offers a series of broken narratives through which she actively seeks to create her own narrative coherence. In so doing, she expresses some of her thoughts and feelings about disability that she struggles to articulate verbally and directly.

The politics of platform folklore: Emotion, identity, and sense-making in far-right populist Twitter communities

Platforms are increasingly part of everyday life, but they remain opaque and impenetrable spaces for most users. To manage life on platforms, users thus need to engage with sense-making practices that help them understand and navigate online spaces. This paper studies how far-right populist activists interpret and navigate their presence on Twitter, using the concept of platform folklore, that is, unofficial and collective narratives aimed at relieving feelings of uncertainty associated with the opacity of platforms. The data consists of 20 life-history interviews with Swedish and American Twitter activists from right-wing populist communities, who all participated in populist Twitter debates. The analysis shows how platform folklore is constructed not only based on observations of content moderation, as emphasized in previous research, but also in correspondence with the political ideology and identities of the activists. This led them to interpret Twitter as a leftist organization that disfavored them, which stopped them from developing strategies to reach the goals they held as central to their Twitter activism. The paper concludes by discussing the role of emotions and ideology in platform folklore within political communities and suggesting directions for future research.

Tweeting “in the language they understand”: a peace journalism conception of political contexts and media narratives on Nigeria's Twitter ban

Tweeting “in the language they understand”: a peace journalism conception of political contexts and media narratives on Nigeria's Twitter ban

Narrativity and the Idea of Narrative Identity in Law

Abstract How can an extension of the legal perspective with the idea of narrative unity be presented using the law and literature movement? Considering law as a complex semiotic object that is a product (and carrier) of culture makes it possible to see elements of narrativity from a theoretical and legal perspective. This is a significant phenomenon, especially aft er the cultural turn in the humanities. This article presents a problematisation of narrativity in legal discourse and the theory of law. As is well known, the theory of narration and the concept of narrativity have been widely used in the humanities, mainly in literary theory. I propose extending the narrative perspective to law by showing what research directions can be observed when using the concept of narration in the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of law. Finally, I discuss the thesis of narrative identity in relation to law. I adopt the perspective of examining law in the light of literary analysis.

Memoir Writing for Problematic Grief After Spousal Personality Change via TBI

A sixty-one-year-old female’s husband suffers a traumatic brain injury (TBI) during a car accident two years prior. The TBI causes a permanent personality change in the husband. Client endures problematic grief after the “death” of her husband’s previous personality; symptoms like anger, restlessness, and detachment are present. Client and I begin work on that grief through a series of 45-minute, weekly in-office sessions. With this third session, I introduce the narrative concept of memoir writing.

Narrative aesthetics in Giorgione's paintings

The research dealt with the study of (narrative aesthetics in Giorgione’s paintings), the nature of narration, its aesthetics, and the diversity of its concepts during the Renaissance period in general and the works of the artist Giorgione in particular. Through the research, questions were raised, such as: What is the aesthetics of narration in Giorgione’s paintings, and is narration an important part of Giorgione’s works because of its importance in identifying one of the figures of the Renaissance period, since few researchers paid attention to narration in painting, but they did not expand the analysis of Giorgione’s works, which A void form in the Arabic library. The study focused on the time period from (1500 - 1510) for Giorgione’s works executed on canvas, wood, or panel. The research dealt with the concepts of beauty and narrative in a philosophical manner through the concept of (beauty philosophically and artistically, and beauty in the Renaissance between religion and realism). A sample was collected. Research from a group of international sources and websites with the aim of analyzing them and obtaining answers to the research questions. The research concluded with a set of results and recommendations about narrative in the works of the artist Giorgione.

Can Two Opposing Narratives Be Equally Valid? Reflections on Zreik’s Reflections on the War in Gaza

Abstract The article critically examines the arguments of Raef Zreik regarding the 2023 war in Gaza. It first analyzes the use of the concept of narrative in defending political causes and actions. It shows that due to their subjective nature two opposing narratives can be equally valid as long as they satisfy conditions of internal coherence and fidelity to the facts. It then shows that Zreik’s argument of ‘fragmentation’ is double edged and cannot be used for laying full responsibility on Israel. It then proceeds to criticize the claim that Zionism is a colonialist enterprise and shows that Zionism does not consist of all the basic characteristics of colonialism. Finally, it analyzes the common argument of self-defense as the only justification of starting a war and shows the limitation of such an argument in a theory of war, mainly because in most wars both sides have the right to defend themselves, including the allegedly unjust party. All that remains after showing the weakness of most arguments for this or that side to the conflict is the conclusion that compromise is the only way out of the deadlock, having the virtue of being pragmatic rather principled.

From Constructing Future Landscapes to Developing Conceptual Narratives: Promoting Design Innovation in the Vehicular Metaverse through Forecasting and Backcasting

From Constructing Future Landscapes to Developing Conceptual Narratives: Promoting Design Innovation in the Vehicular Metaverse through Forecasting and Backcasting

In Defense of Narrative Identity

Over the past few decades, a number of philosophers, psychologists, and other scholars have used the concept of narrative as a basis for thinking about personal identity and ethical responsibility. It has been argued that, ethically, we should strive to achieve the unity that we discover in creating narratives about our lives. More recently, critical reactions to narrative theories have taken the form of a specific anti-narrative discourse. This article presents arguments in defense of the theory of narrative identity, based on the philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor, in whose thinking narrative is a central concept. The presented study defends the thesis that narrative identity is not an arbitrary contingent mental construct, but is necessarily present in human existence and is associated with the hermeneutic understanding of man as a temporary being capable of reflexive activity, constructing meanings, assessments, and goals. It is argued that narrative identity theory successfully addresses the problem of personal identity and the related question of the ethical responsibility of the subject by creating a narrative unity of the life project of an individual, in which the interrelationship between the concepts of personal identity, narration and evaluation is built. Section 1 analyses MacIntyre's concept of narrative and explains its significance for solving the problem of personal identity. Section 2 explicates the key characteristics of narrative identity: holisticity, intelligibility, teleology and the principle of self-care; it also provides responses to the criticisms of opponents who oppose the narrative concept of personal identity. Section 3 presents arguments in defence of Taylor's assertion that the ethical horizon of our existence presupposes the desire for narrative unity of the individual.

A Comprehensive Analysis of Narratives within NATO’s Doctrines

The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine reshaped global security norms, challenging the West with a strategy known as hybrid warfare. Rooted in Russia's military doctrine, this approach integrates both military and non-military means, labelled hybrid warfare in the West and non-linear warfare in Russia. Prioritizing psychological and cognitive influence, the New Generation Warfare emphasizes soft power. NATO responded by investing in strategic communications and exploring cognitive warfare as a potential sixth domain of war. Adversaries use intricate methods to manipulate civilian cognitive processes, relying on persuasive narratives. Like business corporations, nation-states now craft strategic narratives to shape political and military thinking, employing various narrative levels in information and cognitive warfare, including counter-narratives against hostile stories. This article provides a comprehensive review of the different perspectives on the role of narratives within defence and security strategies and doctrines of NATO. The qualitative methodology employed in this study focuses on understanding how narratives are perceived within the strategies of the alliance. The approach involves a comprehensive examination and comparison of narrative practices to uncover the evolution of NATO’s narrative concepts. The sources for this study encompass a range of materials, including official NATO strategy and doctrine papers. This article reveals that, over the period spanning from the 2003 to 2024, narratives have gained increasing significance for NATO. Initially regarded merely as a means to depict events in a preferred manner, narratives have evolved to play a pivotal role in shaping the alliance's strategy. They have transcended their initial role, now exerting influence on military operations and taking precedence at every level of NATO, from headquarters to the boots on the ground. It is highlighted in this article that NATO endeavours to align its actions with its values, aiming to establish credibility and legitimacy. NATO perceives a robust, multi-levelled, and ever-evolving narrative as an effective safeguard against hostile information and cognitive warfare.

New Local History projects in the unofficial history of the city: The case of St. Petersburg

The problem of interpreting local history is relevant to St. Petersburg, as to many other major historical cities. This article examines phenomena united by the concepts of local (spatial) myth and urban narrative, which go beyond official discourse. Alternative images of the city, based on its concealed places of interest contrast with one of the most widespread representations of St. Petersburg – its association with the heritage of imperial culture. The selection of memorable places and stories shifts from recognizable city landmarks to other objects that reveal the history and image of particular St. Petersburg sites, people’s daily lives and peripheral issues of urban life. This approach to the exploration of urban space, a phenomenon called New Local History, is presented and explained in the article as the rediscovery of the historical potential of the city. The examples given in the article also show the possible role of New Local History in encouraging residents to develop an interest in their own history, in the problems of modernity and in participating in socially significant projects. Trends in interaction with urban space and memory practices that offer alternative interpretations of the past have been identified in various socio-cultural initiatives. In the context of Russian memory politics, this approach often becomes oppositional.

Situation: A Narrative Concept

Situation: A Narrative Concept

Нарратив как смыслообразующий элемент политической символизации

The article deals with a theoretical analysis of the concept of political narrative as a political reality, which is not reducible to a set of positivistically established facts. In the context of political symbolization, narratives as elements of interpretation of politics implicate political meanings through verbal situations that develop as an interaction of judgments. Political narratives function as mediators in social activities and not only communicate information, but do it incrementing new meanings, as political narratives are conveyed through deliberation. The “narrative identity” is formed as a reference to metanarratives and their creators. The author shows that any symbolic political reality is a constellation of involvement narratives that create verbal situations of interactions between community members and the collective history as a narration. Therefore, a narrative introduces individuals into a political context. This enables to fix the narrative “footprint” of joint social practices that are named “culture”, “nation”, “country”, etc. At the same time, the author substantiates that the form and the content of political narratives have the meaning of retrospective inner causality, since the inherited array of political interpretations is constantly «retold» in the present reality. It is concluded that in the context of political symbolization, narrative can be an analytical solution of the problem of interaction between individual consciousness and a society.

Prepping as implicit activism: risk, danger, and post-capitalist imaginaries in prepper literature

ABSTRACT This paper explores the increasingly widespread practice of prepping, and examines how it differs from conventional forms of activism, which generally involve explicit and purposeful efforts to instigate collective social change. Drawing on Luhmann’s sociological theory of risk and the narrative concept of foreshadowing, the paper explores how preppers understand the future and their own responsibility in shaping it, as well as the ways in which their visions of the future show up in the present. The paper argues that while the practice of prepping may appear apolitical and perhaps even asocial at a first glance, its political potential lies in the implicit and largely unintended performative consequences that arise from popularizing and proliferating the idea of a potential alternative to capitalism. Consequently, the paper demonstrates how ‘taking the future seriously’, much like conventional activist movements, albeit within the context of viewing the future as dangerous as opposed to risky, can have performative effects that may ultimately function as a form of ‘implicit activism’. This implicit activism could potentially prove as, if not more, effective in terms of challenging the hegemony of neoliberal capitalism. Considering this, we argue that social movement scholars and activists could benefit from a more profound engagement with the practice of prepping. Empirically, the paper draws on a selection of popular self-help books on prepping.

Stories and Selves: A Twisted Love Story about the Meaning of Life

AbstractI argue that stories are ‘equipment for living’ in two senses: retrospectively, they provide ‘configurational comprehension’ of a temporal sequence of events; prospectively, they offer templates for action. Narrative conceptions of the self appear well poised to leverage these functional roles for stories into an intuitively compelling view of self-construction as self-construal. However, the narrative conception defines selves in terms of the lives they live: a self is the protagonist in a lifelong story. And narrative structure is itself defined by ‘retrospective necessity’: the meaning of events within a story is given by their contribution to that story's ending. Together, this entails that life stories hold selves metaphysically, epistemically, and practically hostage to their ends. Fortunately, narratives are just one species of interpretive frame. I suggest some alternative types of frames, including identity labels and metaphors, that support configurational comprehension, action guidance, and self construction without shackling selves to their lives’ ends.

Canonical Narratives as a Tool of Analysis in Psychology

In this article, I develop the concept of canonical narratives, drawing on Jerome Bruner’s (1915-2016) later writings on the central role of culture in shaping human psychology. I argue that we can develop the concept of canonical narratives past its initial purpose in explaining how folk psychology acquires meaning for individuals and develop the concept into a tool of analysis that can shed new light on the broader dialectic between academic psychology and social-cultural environments. I examine the role of canonical narratives in contemporary psychology by focusing on the narrative that human beings are best conceptualized as machines. I argue that not only are psychology’s constructs shaped by social-cultural environments, which have been well established but that their meanings are, to some extent, established through a dialectic with canonical narratives.