Narrative Mapping Research Articles

Narrative Mapping: A Topography of Listening as Healing.

Across multiple and diverse populations, exigent inquiries, and in and out of the classroom, an ethic for listening as a way of being has been central to the methodological and pedagogical practices that undergird narrative mapping. Additionally, the author suggests that in situating the practice of listening as crucial to both communication and healing, we are equally bound to an ethic of creating space. As listeners for the other, we commit to holding space for those silences where participants meet themselves in stillness, a place where they might listen deeply to the self, first. Where narrative mapping creates space for respite in contemplation, participants speak of gaining greater clarity and keener insights about health, healing, and being. The process of listening promotes healing across diverse entities, underscoring the multifaceted nature of narrative mapping, which serves as a research practice, pedagogy, and intervention.

Finding a “continuing city”: John Marrant’s Narrative Mapping as Geographical and Historical Imaginaries

Finding a “continuing city”: John Marrant’s Narrative Mapping as Geographical and Historical Imaginaries

The Autoimmune Library: An Arts-Based Approach to Women of Color’s (Counter)Narratives of Chronic Illness

ABSTRACT Guided by critical race theorizing (CRT) and arts-based methodologies (i.e., metaphor and pictorial narrative mapping [PNM]), the present study analyzed the healthcare (counter)narratives of 150 United States (U.S.) women of color (i.e., Black/African American, Hispanic/Latina, Native American/Alaska Native, and Multiracial) who have autoimmune disease. Sensitized by the metaphor of a library book, participants were asked to story their healthcare journey through identification of a title, chapters, genre, and book cover description (i.e., [Illness] Storybook Survey). Using critical thematic analysis, we first identified dominant and counter-narratives present in participant storybooks, categorized by literary supra-themes of characters (i.e., dominant narrative of me versus my body, counter-narratives of me versus the system and illness as lineal), plot (i.e., dominant narrative of a hero’s journey, counter-narrative of chaos), and tone (i.e., dominant narrative of inspiration, counter-narratives of tangible self-help and humor). Next, guided by PNM, a data visualization technique, each author illustrated one counter-narrative within each literary supra-theme. Our analysis interrogates how participants’ stories both reify and resist ideological and structural power at the intersections of their racial, gender, and illness identities. Collectively, this study offers unique contributions to critical, intersectional, and arts-based approaches to communication research, and forwards new methods for studying health narratives historically located in the margins.

Multi-Temporal Analysis of Urban Heat Island Phenomenon Distribution in the Special Region of Yogyakarta (2018-2022) Using ArcGIS Story Map

Abstract Rapid urban development in the Special Region of Yogyakarta over the last 5 years has resulted in significant temperature variations, impacting urban areas. The study, presented through a Story Map, focuses on the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon, showcasing temperature changes from 2018 to 2022. Despite a general decline of around 1°C during this period, the year 2022 witnessed a notable 4°C increase in urban temperatures. The dynamics of urbanization, coupled with land use alterations, contribute to the fluctuating surface temperatures. The Story Map serves as a comprehensive medium, incorporating multimedia elements to effectively communicate these variations, the contributing factors, and potential mitigation strategies. The Special Region of Yogyakarta’s urbanization has led to a transformation of its design into a metropolitan area, resulting in increased land conversion and demand for residential purposes. The UHI phenomenon is influenced by factors such as changes in land use, building materials, and human activities. The narrative map provides detailed insights into the temperature changes, emphasizing the significance of addressing UHI in regional and spatial planning. It highlights practical measures like tree planting initiatives and sustainable development planning to mitigate the impact of elevated temperatures. The Story Map, designed to be accessible to a broad audience, serves as a valuable reference for government and planning agencies, encouraging informed decision-making to address the challenges associated with urban climate phenomena in the Special Region of Yogyakarta.

Making a narrative tourism map: the case of Jiaxing’s ‘Red Boat Spirit Map’, China

ABSTRACT Today, the marriage between cartographic language and narrative strategies has reshaped maps with the generative capability to represent the intangible historical characters and events involved in social memories following a narrative manner. Despite these advances, rather few efforts have been spared to unveil the potential of tourism maps in a narrative form. This paper seeks to rectify the gaps in this line of research by unfolding the underlying theories and cartographic design guidelines for making narrative tourism maps. In particular, a narrative cartographic design approach is demonstrated and evidenced to be practical using the case of ‘Red Boat Spirit Map’, a tourism map designed for Jiaxing City, one of the most well-known destinations of China’s red tourism. It is believed that the theoretical instrument and cartographic design guidelines presented in our paper are particularly relevant and can be easily adapted to more general research of narrative maps.

Design and implementation of mixed reality narrative map of Nanjing Ming Dynasty City Wall based on video integration

Design and implementation of mixed reality narrative map of Nanjing Ming Dynasty City Wall based on video integration

INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF STORY MAPS IN DEVELOPING STUDENTS' SPATIAL ABILITIES ON HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL DISASTERS FOR E-PORTFOLIO ASSIGNMENTS

The government of Indonesia has issued a self-study curriculum for colleges based on the principles of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in the digital age. The new rule recommends an online portfolio as a tool for measuring the success of educational programs. Students at Syiah Kuala University (USK) utilized Story Map electronic portfolios to hone their spatial skills in the General Compulsory Course on Disaster and Environmental Knowledge. This study aims to improve upon the concept of the Story Map and use it as a component of students' electronic portfolios in order to evaluate their capacity to plan for and respond to hydrometeorological disasters. The concept of the Story Map is created as a digital portfolio project, beginning with secondary materials including literature studies, raster and vector data from ESRI and Mapbox. The ability to perceive spatial relationships is measured by collecting primary data in the form of a questionnaire. The findings of a F (Simultaneous) statistical test for testing hypotheses are as follows: With Fcount > Ftable = 228.338 > 3.34, we get a value of F = 0.000<0.05. Both e-portfolios and narrative maps impact students' spatial abilities in relation to hydrometeorological disasters, as shown by the F test scores. T-tests for multiple variables Students' spatial intelligence is affected by the narrative map (X1) in the proportion of 4.746 > Tcount > Ttable. 2.048. The e-portfolio variable (X2) has a positive effect on students' spatial abilities (Y), with a value of Tcount > Ttable, or 14.063 > 2.048..

Morphological analysis of the Kurdish legend "Tomatin and Narina Gulbarin" Based on the theory of Vladimir Propp

Structuralists, in the last century, have sought to obtain narrative maps and specific narrative patterns that can be used to examine folk tales, fairy tales, and legends of nations. After a lot of effort and presentation of various models, among them, Vladimir Propp was able to discover and present a diagram and model by analyzing a hundred Russian fairy tales and legends, which can be used to describe most of the folk tales and stories. Russian and even world fairies were adapted to it. This model and method attracted the attention of many researchers and became the basis of many investigations and researches after him. The story collection Narina Gulbarin is one of the Kurdish folk works that contains ten stories. In this article, an attempt has been made to apply Vladimir Propp's autobiography diagram and his morphological model to the story "Tomatin and Narin Golbarin", which is one of the stories in this collection, in order to determine how Propp's theory is applicable to this story. After the analysis of this story, it was found that the method and pattern of the prop are generally consistent with the diagram of the actions of this story. What is certain is that this legend is consistent with Propp's method and model, and a large number of actions. The actions in the mentioned story are identical to Propp's morphological model. And the main goal of this article is, the adaptation of the prop’s pattern to prove that it is applicable to the legend of "Tomatin and Narina Gulbarin". Another goal of this research is to make more students and researchers familiar with this book and its collection of legends.

In between the lines of the narrative map: Phenomenological analysis of war rape victims in Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia.

Research conducted in the last four decades on rape and other forms of sexual violence shows that they are not only the result of transgression behaviors of some people but have been used as strategic, systemic, and calculated tools of war, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Examining the nature and effect of wartime rape and sexual violence based on their distinctive features, context, and historical background is essential for research and service providers. This paper explores the lived experiences of sexual violence and gang rape victims during the North Ethiopian war in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. Data were collected from three girls and women survivors using a trauma and socio-culturally informed phenomenological approach. The finding shows that participants experienced a broad and complex range of psychological, physiological, emotional, and relational suffering after the rape. The result also shed light on some risk factors such as lack of awareness of the effect of traumatic events, stigma related to rape, and lacks victim protective legislation risk their journey to healing. The paper further discussed individual and community mental health responses for victims of war rape in culturally responsive and resource-poor settings.

Narrative mapping in relational research: visualizing the catching feelings process

This study examines the subjective process of catching feelings, which are the unintentional, unexpected, and surprising yet desirable feelings that can arise during relationship development. In a two-step collection process of focus groups (n = 17) and individual interviews (n = 15), collegiate adults completed guided narrative mapping and elicitation interviews. Analysis of the narrative maps and interviews identified three key ways individuals make sense of the catching feeling process: (1) finding the right “moment” to communicate feelings and take action, (2) “picking up the pace” by increasing the frequency and depth of communication, and (3) seeing catching feeling as a “choose your own adventure” experience, where certain decisions lead to certain relational outcomes. These findings offer insight into perceptions and expectations of adult contemporary romantic relationships when they make decisions about relationship initiation in catching feelings experiences. The visual illustrations of their maps draw on their experiences and tie contemporary lexica with actualized or perceived experiences.

What does social cognition look like in everyday social functioning in Huntington’s disease? A protocol for a scoping review to explore and synthesise knowledge about social cognition alongside day-to-day social functioning of people with Huntington’s disease

IntroductionSocial cognition is problematic in Huntington’s disease (HD). Despite the observations of clinicians and families, there is minimal empirical literature about how it presents in daily life and the impact...

“Finding My Way to Freedom”: Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging

This paper explores Dionne Brand‘s A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging (2011) as a non-traditional archive, yet idealistically a poetic narrative map, beginning epically at the Door of No Return on the west coast of Africa and spreading out infinitely. I argue the main focus is freedom as marronage mapped out through a set of hyperlinked tension-filled stories across time and space that collectively connect geography and/to history; its method is collecting and recording “conversations” (224), both spoken and observed, about Black diasporic lives and encounters across time and space. In Map Brand’s desire for freedom leads her to interrogate and challenge selected old world maps, charts journeys, and, in narrative and poetry, re/call and re/invent the past and actively re/imagine the present and future of new world liberated Black people as self-created individuals. The result is a modern literary artifact: as memorial to the marooned, with a ruttier for freedom for the marooned. This work forms part of a neo-archive of Black Diasporic texts that collectively perform reparative story-telling. Brand maps and builds a different (non-traditional) repository by recording selected experiences of Black people in the New World Diaspora—connecting paths forged from “a place emptied of beginnings” (6). Map charts the points on a journey to a liberatory future, one based on, as Brand describes it, “a life of conversations about a forgotten list of irretrievable selves” (224)—human dignity. Brand’s Map, then, for inspiration, preserves selected histories that might have otherwise remained unexplored. It makes future retrieval possible, and the possibility of forgetting impossible—and ultimately this is the ageless beauty of this provocative work.

“A Pledge of Allegiance to the South”

Research examining representations of the institution of slavery at historic house museums in the United States has overwhelmingly privileged southern plantation museums. Increasingly, however, there is a call to resist the urge to center discussions of enslavement only in the South and to expand our understandings of how slavery permeated all aspects of US society. Utilizing interviews, narrative mapping, and visitor surveys, this study seeks to show how two house museums in Kansas City, Missouri, are commemorating enslavement. This research is part of the larger initiative of Tourism RESET (Race, Ethnicity and Social Equity in Tourism).

Composing The Map of Ambon Island to Strengthen the History Student’s Spatial Thinking Skills

This paper aims to guide how the history teacher facilitates his student to compose their map and develop their spatial thinking skill. This paper is divided into three sections of Hikayat Tanah Hitu, visualizing the narrative map of Ambon and teaching how to compose the historical map to strengthen student’s spatial thinking skills. The first deals with the historical context and the characteristics of Hikayat Tanah Hitu. Second, the researchers aim to narrate their experience to compose a digital map, by Geographical Information System (GIS), based on the narrative map of Hikayat Tanah Hitu (Hitu Chronicle). The last refers to the researchers’ suggestion for history teachers to teach their students. The researchers also suggest that the next researcher analyze all place names mentioned in Hikayat Tanah Hitu and visualize them into several digital maps.

From Data to Narratives: Scrutinising the Spatial Dimensions of Social and Cultural Phenomena Through Lenses of Interactive Web Mapping

Modern web mapping techniques have enhanced the storytelling capability of cartography. In this paper, we present our recent development of a web mapping facility that can be used to extract interesting stories and unique insights from a diverse range of socio-economic and demographic variables and indicators, derived from a variety of datasets. We then use three curated narratives to show that online maps are effective ways of interactive storytelling and visualisation, which allow users to tailor their own story maps. We discuss the reasons for the revival of the recent attention to narrative mapping and conclude that our interactive web mapping facility powered by data assets can be employed as an accessible and powerful toolkit, to identify geographic patterns of various social and economic phenomena by social scientists, journalists, policymakers, and the public.

Mapping low-wage and precarious employment among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries: A scoping review protocol

Background: Low-wage and precarious employment are prevalent and on the rise, disproportionately impacting marginalized populations. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) populations have been largely left out of economic justice movements and scholarly literature on precarious employment and its deleterious social and health impacts. Methods: This scoping review protocol will guide a theoretical and narrative mapping of the literature on low-wage and precarious employment among LGBTQ+ people to better understand the extent and nature of this phenomenon. We will include empirical literature that discuss dimensions of this phenomenon in Organisation and Economic Co-operation and Development countries published on/after January 1, 2000. PRISMA-ScR guidelines structure this protocol. We will search 10 bibliographic databases to locate literatures across disciplines: EconLit, Sociological Abstracts, Scopus, PsycInfo, Social Work Abstracts, ABI/Inform, Business Source Premier, LGBTQ+ Source, Gender Studies Database, and Web of Science, with support from a Public Health Research Librarian. A rigorous search strategy was developed for PsycInfo (OVID) and will be adapted for subsequent database searches. Titles and abstracts will be independently screened by a subset of co-authors, followed by a full text review. Data abstraction and charting will be conducted using a standardized abstraction tool.

Design guidelines for narrative maps in sensemaking tasks

Narrative sensemaking is a fundamental process to understand sequential information. Narrative maps are a visual representation framework that can aid analysts in their narrative sensemaking process. Narrative maps allow analysts to understand the big picture of a narrative, uncover new relationships between events, and model the connection between storylines. We seek to understand how analysts create and use narrative maps in order to obtain design guidelines for an interactive visualization tool for narrative maps that can aid analysts in narrative sensemaking. We perform two experiments with a data set of news articles. The insights extracted from our studies can be used to design narrative maps, extraction algorithms, and visual analytics tools to support the narrative sensemaking process. The contributions of this paper are three-fold: (1) an analysis of how analysts construct narrative maps; (2) a user evaluation of specific narrative map features; and (3) design guidelines for narrative maps. Our findings suggest ways for designing narrative maps and extraction algorithms, as well as providing insights toward useful interactions. We discuss these insights and design guidelines and reflect on the potential challenges involved. As key highlights, we find that narrative maps should avoid redundant connections that can be inferred by using the transitive property of event connections, reducing the overall complexity of the map. Moreover, narrative maps should use multiple types of cognitive connections between events such as topical and causal connections, as this emulates the strategies that analysts use in the narrative sensemaking process.

Current management of adults receiving oral anti-cancer medications: A scoping review protocol.

Oncology has been undergoing a profound transition in the last ten years with the increased usage in oral anti-cancer medication. Approximately 25% of all anti-cancer medication is now designed for oral use and this is likely to increase prospectively. These treatments are convenient for patients and are often preferred by them, yet there are similar safety and toxicity concerns as there are to intravenous treatment. Oral anti-cancer medications (OAMs) have the potential to alleviate capacity issues in cancer treating units as patients receive their treatment at home, however there remains a requirement for safe and efficient assessment and care. Consequently, the management of patients on OAMs is of paramount importance.The optimum setting, whether within primary or secondary care, in addition to the appropriate health care professional to carry out patient assessment and monitoring needs to be established. This paper presents a protocol for a scoping review which aims to systematically and comprehensively map the literature on the current management of adults receiving OAMs. The review will follow the published guidance to direct the various steps involved. The protocol will be guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) framework to ensure methodological and reporting quality.Independent full text review will be performed by two reviewers and any disagreements resolved through discussion with a third reviewer. The process will be iterativein nature. This scoping review will provide a narrative synthesis and map theliterature on the management of individuals receiving OAMs.This work is an appropriate initial stage in presenting the literature to inform the subsequent steps in a multi-phased research study which aims to establish and analyse the safety and efficacy of an integrated care model for themanagement of patients receiving OAM in the community by an advanced practitioner.

Narrative Cartography with Knowledge Graphs

Narrative cartography is a discipline which studies the interwoven nature of stories and maps. However, conventional geovisualization techniques of narratives often encounter several prominent challenges, including the data acquisition & integration challenge and the semantic challenge. To tackle these challenges, in this paper, we propose the idea of narrative cartography with knowledge graphs (KGs). Firstly, to tackle the data acquisition & integration challenge, we develop a set of KG-based GeoEnrichment toolboxes to allow users to search and retrieve relevant data from integrated cross-domain knowledge graphs for narrative mapping from within a GISystem. With the help of this tool, the retrieved data from KGs are directly materialized in a GIS format which is ready for spatial analysis and mapping. Two use cases — Magellan’s expedition and World War II — are presented to show the effectiveness of this approach. In the meantime, several limitations are identified from this approach, such as data incompleteness, semantic incompatibility, and the semantic challenge in geovisualization. For the later two limitations, we propose a modular ontology for narrative cartography, which formalizes both the map content (Map Content Module) and the geovisualization process (Cartography Module). We demonstrate that, by representing both the map content and the geovisualization process in KGs (an ontology), we can realize both data reusability and map reproducibility for narrative cartography.

Design and Implementation of Narrative Map Based on Hand Scroll – An Example of Zheng He's voyage to the West

Design and Implementation of Narrative Map Based on Hand Scroll – An Example of Zheng He's voyage to the West