Analyzing Social Narratives

Krebs, Ronald R.; Jones, Michael D.; Aronoff, Myron J.; Shenhav, Shaul R.

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“…In other words, given a context, there are limits to the kinds of interpretations people will make and people, striving to impose order on their understanding of the world, will have, find, or create systematized ways for interpreting. Those systems create boundaries that bracket possible interpretations. Narratives have generalizable components: Along with other structural approaches to narrative (e.g., Shenhav, ), a basic underlying assumption of the NPF is that policy narratives are objects—“things”—that exist in the world discrete from other objects. Furthermore, within the concept of policy narrative are other concepts that allow policy narratives to be disaggregated into component parts.…”

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“…3. Narratives have generalizable components: Along with other structural approaches to narrative (e.g., Shenhav, 2015), a basic underlying assumption of the NPF is that policy narratives are objects-"things"-that exist in the world discrete from other objects. Furthermore, within the concept of policy narrative are other concepts that allow policy narratives to be disaggregated into component parts.…”

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Advancing the Narrative Policy Framework? The Musings of a Potentially Unreliable Narrator

Jones¹

2018

Policy Studies Journal

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Inspired by postmodernism and the seemingly contradictory charter of science, the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) was named in a 2010 issue of the Policy Studies Journal for the purposes of understanding the role of narrative in the policy process. Since its inception we have seen a proliferation of research applications. In this issue of the PSJ you will find some of the best representatives of those applications. Studies within show a productive merging of NPF with other theories, refinement of concepts, sophisticated methodologies, and an expanding list of policy areas to which the NPF is being applied. You will also see examples of the NPF being clear enough to be wrong and—at times—being wrong. Among other observations, I argue that findings herein illuminate gaps in our understanding of narrative's role in the policy process, including a need for more refined strategy theory, a better understanding of the intersection between framing theory and the NPF, and a need to directly address the NPF's ongoing struggle to deal with varied contexts. I argue that to develop more generalizable narrative concepts that the division between interpretive and scientific approaches to the study of policy must continue to be overcome.

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Section: The Narrative Policy Frameworkmentioning

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Advancing the Narrative Policy Framework? The Musings of a Potentially Unreliable Narrator

Jones¹

2018

Policy Studies Journal

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“…The essential elements of a narrative are the beginning, middle and end. However, when telling narratives, it is often difficult for people to see what constitutes the ‘end’ of that narrative; therefore, narratives often end with ‘temporal or emotional “closure”, or resolution, rather than with the last event in a sequence’ (Shenhav : 14). In illness narratives on prostate cancer, however, there is seldom a definite end available for the narrators.…”

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Seeking certainty through narrative closure: men's stories of prostate cancer treatments in a state of liminality

Pietilä

Jurva

Ojala

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Sociology Health & Illness

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Radical treatments of prostate cancer often lead to a pervasive liminal state that is characterised by multiple uncertainties that relate both to a possible recurrence of cancer and recovery from side effects, such as erectile and urinary dysfunctions. Liminality can make it difficult for cancer patients to narrate their experiences, as their stories lack a definite ending. After interviews with 22 Finnish men who had undergone radical prostatectomy, we analysed how men produce closure in their illness narratives. Focusing on the timelines of control visits or their anticipated recovery from side effects, these interviewees sought provisional certainty within a seemingly chaotic future. By locating erectile dysfunction in the wider context of a life-course and interpreting their fading sexuality as a 'natural' consequence of ageing, these men were adjusting to their post-operative lives. Our study further shows that the inability to adjust personal experiences to positive culturally available storylines that provide a chance for the narrative reconstruction of life, can cause materialised negative consequences, such as relationship breakdowns.

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“…Indeed, in times of conflict, concepts such as religion, ethnicity, nationhood, and language-the four very "basic sources and forms of social, cultural and political identification" (Brubaker 2013, p. 3, emphasis in original; see also Enns 2012, p. 151)-have a tendency to become accentuated, encouraged or questioned. As many scholars have pinpointed, studying narratives is a way of grasping these dynamic relations, as stories never exist merely in the personal or public domains respectively, but intersect in ways that construct complex sites of shared and contested identities (Somers 1994;De Fina 2003;Benmayor and Skotnes 2009;Jackson 2013;Ammerman 2014;Andrews 2014;Hammack and Pilecki 2014;Shenshav 2015).…”

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Between Utopia and Dystopia: Sectarianization through Revolution and War in Syrian Refugee Narratives

Løland

2019

Religions

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Whereas much recent research has tried to understand the role of sectarianism in the Syrian conflict, few studies address the issue from a bottom-up viewpoint as seen from people’s everyday and lived experiences. This article seeks to access trajectories of sectarian identity formations through Syrian refugee narratives, articulated in stories that evolve around the revolution and the emerging civil war. It questions how the sectarian debate is experienced and reflected upon from refugees’ micro-narrative perspectives and the ways in which these experiences correspond to politicized frames operating on a macro-level. By taking the concept of ‘sectarianism’ as a theoretical vantage point, the study argues for a dynamic identity approach when attempting to understand complex processes of contested and contesting identities. Moreover, it suggests that by replacing the concept of sectarianism with ‘sectarianization’, we may provide a more nuanced understanding of processes in which religious identities are discursively constructed and mobilized in conflicts such as the Syrian one. The qualitative analysis of this study is based on in-depth narrative interviews with a multi-religious Syrian refugee population residing in Norway. Divided into four narrative clusters, their stories deal with hope, fear, victimization as well as hate and distrust. Through the extremities of revolution and war, each of these clusters reveal particular memories, moments and experiences that in various ways have informed and shaped issues of identity and perceptions of the ‘religious other’. Taken together, their stories expose a valuable juncture through which the complexities surrounding religion, identity and conflict can be further studied.

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Analyzing Social Narratives

Cited by 117 publications

References 11 publications

Advancing the Narrative Policy Framework? The Musings of a Potentially Unreliable Narrator

Advancing the Narrative Policy Framework? The Musings of a Potentially Unreliable Narrator

Seeking certainty through narrative closure: men's stories of prostate cancer treatments in a state of liminality

Between Utopia and Dystopia: Sectarianization through Revolution and War in Syrian Refugee Narratives

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