Emplotting anticipatory resilience: An antenarrative extension of the communication theory of resilience

Betts, Timothy; Hintz, Elizabeth A.; Buzzanell, Patrice M.

doi:10.1080/03637751.2021.1971272

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“…Furthermore, scholars may be interested in identifying how individuals with chronic illness create counter-narratives to resist dominant ableist ideologies (e.g., Basinger et al, 2022; Minniear, 2023). Finally, future endeavors may focus on narrative resilience processes (Kranstuber Horstman, 2019) and incoherent narratives as sites for critical analysis of resilience processes (Betts et al, 2022). There remains untapped potential for communication research on experiences of chronic illness, notably in younger populations.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Being Sick Does Not Define You”: Communicated Narrative Sense-Making of Autoimmune Disease in Emerging Adult Women in the U.S.

Gunning,

Koenig Kellas

2023

Emerging Adulthood

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The onset of autoimmune disease (AD) in emerging adulthood is a disruptive illness experience that is difficult to make sense of. Compounded by hegemonic ideologies, including the master illness narrative of restitution and stereotype of the hysterical female patient, women with AD struggle with narrative coherency. Guided by the retrospective storytelling heuristic of communicated narrative sense-making theory (CNSM), the present study investigates the meanings, values, and beliefs found in emerging adult women’s narratives of AD onset and diagnosis. Using qualitative in-depth interviews, findings identify how young women experiencing disruptive chronic illness at a formative age make sense and meaning of their experience, highlighting the role of identity (re)construction and resistance to dominant narratives. Framed as lessons learned, themes include rediscovering trust in self, separating self from illness, creating and committing to new normals, challenging assumptions about illness, and recognizing privilege and disparities in care. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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“Being Sick Does Not Define You”: Communicated Narrative Sense-Making of Autoimmune Disease in Emerging Adult Women in the U.S.

Gunning,

Koenig Kellas

2023

Emerging Adulthood

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“…Explaining what makes a system embody resiliency, Buzzanell argued that resilience is what people do and say as they grapple with crises affecting themselves and others during the present and while crafting the future (Agarwal & Buzzanell, 2015). Moreover, as people individually and collectively make sense of disruptions and enact resilience, the narratives they create shape forwardthinking logics upon which individuals craft their understandings of what is probable, what is pragmatic, what is possible (Betts et al, 2022). The essential contrasts here between this communication view as economic resilience and the ideas framed above as systemic recovery (Hynes et al, 2020) become particularly clear when thinking about the addressee of adaptation questions.…”

Section: Framework: Risk Mitigation Systemic Recovery and Economic Re...mentioning

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“…In the framework of sensemaking, organization is a social process of crafting collective meanings after events have occurred in order to justify action in the present. Put into the language of resilience: as people make sense of disruptive events, they form the basis upon which they will respond to disruption (Betts et al, 2022). Communication researchers emphasize that the experience of disruption is a malleable social construction (Buzzanell, 2018a) by recalling concepts such as memory plasticity (Pasupathi, 2001) and narrative reframing (Clair & Kunkel, 1998;Koenig Kellas, 2018).…”

Section: Synthesis: Sensemaking and Economic Theorymentioning

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“…Understanding the dynamics of these policy debates as a matter of value and not of finding objective truth is paramount to reinvigorating the economic imagination. Using CTR, Betts et al (2022) articulated the ways that the stories of disruptive events begin to shape the ways that people think about possible futures. Essentially, in building accounts of the past, people begin to limit their idea of what the future might be able to hold for them.…”

Section: Synthesis: Propspection and Economic Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Enacting Economic Resilience: A Synthesis of Economic and Communication Frameworks

Betts¹,

Buzzanell²

2022

Preprint

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This work reviews three frameworks for responding to economic disruption: risk mitigation, systemic recovery, and economic resilience. Specifically, by reviewing extant literature in economics, communication, and other disciplines, we argue that current approaches to understanding resilience in economics largely fail to address ongoing and emergent disruptions to the economic and social world. In response to these issues, we work to synthesize economic frameworks and the communication theory of resilience to forward a new way of examining the overlapping questions of economic resilience related to metatheoretical commitments, analytic contexts, and implications for theory, method, and practice.

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“…My participants were creating the story of their experience as they were being interviewed, and thus their storytelling was disjointed as they were trying to make sense of the events they experienced as they were telling the story. Current research on antenarratives and incoherent narratives has found that connections between constructing antenarratives of disruptive life events and future resilience regarding those events (Betts et al, 2021). These participants were making sense of their experiences as they told me about their experiences, and thus told varying levels of incoherent stories; their sensemaking in some ways was occurring in real-time as they crafted their stories.…”

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Men and maternal care: how men make sense of their experiences with a partner's pregnancy, labor, and delivery

Johnsen¹

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Men often report wanting to be involved in a partner's pregnancy, labor, and delivery but may feel unsure of what to do or if they are allowed to participate. Existing studies describe men's participation and are mostly from non-communication disciplines, such as midwifery. This dissertation, guided by sensemaking theory, aimed to provide a communicative perspective to men's experiences with maternal health. Sensemaking theory examines the communicative process of making sense of lived experiences and the factors that influence an individual's sensemaking. The influences of societal expectations, as outlined in the U.S. master narrative of birth, were also examined. Sixteen men with partners who had recently given birth were interviewed and asked about how they participated in, and made sense of, their experiences with a partner's pregnancy, labor. and delivery. Data were analyzed through a hermeneutic phenomenological lens with the intention of describing and interpreting the lived experiences of these participants. Participants made sense of their experience by engaging in the process of noting memorable moments, placing boundaries on those moments, and labeling (explicitly and implicitly) the role they played. Participants fell into one of three roles (lead character, background character, and supportive character), often depending on their partners' needs. Most participants labeled themselves in a different role at different points, indicating that men's roles change throughout the process. When asked to story their partner's pregnancy, labor, and delivery, most told incomplete or incoherent stories. This could be due to their lack of practice telling the story or an expectation that men are not supposed to talk about maternal health. Additionally, participants discussed expectations of a normal pregnancy, feeling in control of the process, and being seen but not heard. These expectations reflected the U.S. master birth narrative which is characterized as a pronatalist (i.e., belief that posits all adults will desire to become parents and assumes all adults are able to get and sustain a pregnancy) narrative that privileges a medicalized model of birth. However, this sample was predominantly white, indicating that the master U.S. birth narrative may only reflect the experiences of a predominantly white population. This sheds light on a need for additional research examining the experiences of BIPOC women and their partners in maternal health. Practitioners and educators should encourage fathers or other support partners to be involved in maternal health. Participants who utilized doulas or midwives felt strongly that other people should do the same, and felt that this external support was vital for them to be able to support their partner and engage in pregnancy, labor, and delivery. Many participants felt pregnancy was supposed to be a time for them to prepare for parenthood but lacked the resources to do so. Prenatal educators should provide more information for parents to aid their transition from delivering a baby to parenting one. These findings extend understanding of men's experiences in maternal health by adding a communicative lens to this context. These findings also expand the timeframe by analyzing how men make sense of and engage with pregnancy, labor, and delivery and how that engagement or sensemaking may change over time, rather than only focusing on the stagnant role played by men in labor and delivery only. These findings also extend sensemaking theory by examining a family and health context and by examining the impact of societal expectations on men's sensemaking and engagement with pregnancy, labor, and delivery.

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Emplotting anticipatory resilience: An antenarrative extension of the communication theory of resilience

Cited by 28 publications

References 44 publications

“Being Sick Does Not Define You”: Communicated Narrative Sense-Making of Autoimmune Disease in Emerging Adult Women in the U.S.

“Being Sick Does Not Define You”: Communicated Narrative Sense-Making of Autoimmune Disease in Emerging Adult Women in the U.S.

Enacting Economic Resilience: A Synthesis of Economic and Communication Frameworks

Men and maternal care: how men make sense of their experiences with a partner's pregnancy, labor, and delivery

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