Politische Narrative. Konturen einer politikwissenschaftlichen Erzähltheorie

Gadinger, Frank; Jarzebski, Sebastian; Yildiz, Taylan

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-02581-6_1

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“…The relevance of narratives is widely accepted: Empirical studies on such linguistic constructs in policy analysis are now a well-established scientific field [7,8]. Narratives, however, are not necessarily based on evidence and precise definitions; ambiguity, vagueness, and normativity are key characteristics.…”

Section: Narratives As a Tool To Shape Public Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

“…• facilitate communication about specific issues, • provide instructions for action, • can help to either preserve or change current value systems, • provide reference points for societal actors, • configure political alliances and actions, and • create political positions and their strategic legitimacy [7,8,11,12].…”

Section: Narratives As a Tool To Shape Public Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

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Stories that Change Our World? Narratives of the Sustainable Economy

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Narratives are shaping our understanding of the world. They convey values and norms and point to desirable future developments. In this way, they justify and legitimize political actions and social practices. Once a narrative has emerged and this world view is supported by broad societal groups, narratives can provide powerful momentum to trigger innovation and changes in the course of action. Narratives, however, are not necessarily based on evidence and precise categories, but can instead be vague and ambiguous in order to be acceptable and attractive to different actors. However, the more open and inclusive a narrative is, the less impact can be expected. We investigate whether there is a shared narrative in research for the sustainable economy and how this can be evaluated in terms of its potential societal impact. The paper carves out the visions for the future that have been underlying the research projects conducted within the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) funding programme “The Sustainable Economy”. It then analyzes whether these visions are compatible with narratives dominating societal discourse on the sustainable economy, and concludes how the use of visions and narratives in research can contribute to fostering societal transformations.

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Section: Narratives As a Tool To Shape Public Discoursementioning

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Section: Narratives As a Tool To Shape Public Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

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“…We relate this to cultures of learning which become institutionalized in social contexts. Nearly all interviewees related this to interactions with adopters in social networks (interviews [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]36).…”

Section: Adopting Local Success Stories and The Fixity-travel Dilemmamentioning

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“…Narratives-sequences of connected imagined or real events-unite qualities of language-and communication-oriented approaches and draw on notions of issue frames and discourse and influence them. They reproduce stories of the past in order to take positions on issues of the future [2][3][4]. In the social scientific literature, narratives have therefore been described as a means of deliberatively pushing for change [5].…”

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confidence: 99%

Bottom-Up Energy Transition Narratives: Linking the Global with the Local? A Comparison of Three German Renewable Co-Ops

David

Schönborn

2018

Sustainability

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Bottom-up transition narratives help to enable the implementation of energy transitions. Yet, scholarship shows that little light has been shed on how bottom-up transition narratives change during the course of transition. By proposing a framework that envisions bottom-up transition narratives, we analyze narratives on three German bottom-up renewable energy initiatives to address this gap. Relying on semi-structured interviews with innovators and adopters, we show that, during the establishment phase, the analyzed narratives take non-place-bound factors like climate change as a point of contention. At the same time, narratives underscore place-bound factors as, for instance, civil society's knowledge and participation as means for an alternative, non-rent-seeking energy system. During the adoption phase, the analyzed narratives travel easily. This represents a paradox because bottom-up energy transition narratives move beyond their local, place-bound origin in order to be reproduced in different spatial settings. By so doing, bottom-up energy transition narratives diverge from their original message. By falling short on the promotion of citizen's participation, they begin to promote sociotechnical systems that differ little from the sociotechnical systems from competing, rent-seeking energy industries during the innovation adoption pathway. Our comparative approach outlines how bottom-up energy transition narratives adapt to this trade-off during innovation adoption events. We discuss what this means for bottom-up energy transitions and conclude that bottom-up energy transition narratives are faced with a fixity-travel dilemma during the adoption phase.

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“…Such conceptualizations are captured, for instance, in the idea of human beings as "homo narrans" [68,69], or "storytelling animals" [70], who learn and understand in a narrative mode [62]. Since human action is shaped by the way one's existence in the world is experienced, it critically depends on how this process unfolds in the narrative patterns that create meaning and order [71].…”

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The Dilemma of Incumbents in Sustainability Transitions: A Narrative Approach

Augenstein

Palzkill

2015

Administrative Sciences

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Abstract:In the context of the larger sustainability discourse, "sufficiency" is beginning to emerge as a new value throughout Western societies, and the question asked in this article is: Can we observe and conceptually identify opportunities to link successful business strategies of incumbents to principles of sufficiency? Thus, how feasible is sustainable entrepreneurship for incumbents? In this paper, a conceptual approach is developed combining insights from sociology, transition research, management and sustainable entrepreneurship research with a focus on narratives as a translation mechanism in situations where tensions emerge between corporate narratives and unexpected societal trends, e.g., the emergence of sufficient lifestyles. It will be shown that even though these are still a niche phenomenon, a focus on corporate narratives is an important element in understanding the role of incumbents in transitions to sustainability.

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Politische Narrative. Konturen einer politikwissenschaftlichen Erzähltheorie

Cited by 82 publications

References 23 publications

Stories that Change Our World? Narratives of the Sustainable Economy

Stories that Change Our World? Narratives of the Sustainable Economy

Bottom-Up Energy Transition Narratives: Linking the Global with the Local? A Comparison of Three German Renewable Co-Ops

The Dilemma of Incumbents in Sustainability Transitions: A Narrative Approach

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