Speaking of the Future: Contentious Narration During the Cuban Missile Crisis

Gibson, David R.

doi:10.1007/s11133-011-9206-0

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“…This approach to narratives is consistent with recent work by scholars such as Mische (2009, 2014) and Gibson (2011a,b), who focus on future-oriented narratives as a tool for understanding diverse social phenomenon. Indeed, Mische (2014) argues that narrative analysis is one of the primary methods through which sociologists can study imagined or projected futures.…”

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Narrative change, narrative stability, and structural constraint: The case of prisoner reentry narratives

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Cultural sociologists and other social scientists have increasingly used the concept of narrative as a theoretical tool to understand how individuals make sense of the links between their past, present, and future, how individuals construct social identities from cultural building blocks, and how culture shapes social action and individual behavior. Despite its richness, we contend that the narratives literature has yet to grapple with narrative change and stability when structural constraints or barriers challenge personal narratives and narrative identities. Particularly for marginalized groups, the potential incompatibility of personal narratives with daily experiences raises questions about the capacity of narratives to influence behavior and decision-making. In this study we draw on prospective longitudinal data on the reentry narratives and narrative identities of former prisoners to understand how narratives do and not change when confronted with contradictory experiences and structural constraints. We identify and describe the processes generating narrative change and stability among our subjects. These findings inform a framework for studying narrative change and stability based on four factors: the content of the narrative itself, the structural circumstances experienced by the individual, the institutional contexts in which the individual is embedded, and the social networks in which the individual is embedded.

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“…Furthermore, the story‐telling process is mostly portrayed as a mental operation occurring within individual minds, with input from lawyers. The model is silent about how jurors go about telling stories to one another, aloud, during deliberations, though collaborative story telling is an important topic of research in conversation analysis (Gibson ; Lerner ). The generative approach, in contrast, focuses on the relationship between talk and underlying beliefs, taking the former as a clue to the latter.…”

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The Habits of Normal, Innocent People, as Construed by the North American Juror

Gibson

2016

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Deliberating juries draw on commonsense notions of what counts as "normal" behavior in distinguishing facts which are inculpatory from those that lend themselves to more innocent interpretation. Though this is a commonplace observation, prior research has shed little light on the underlying model(s) of normalcy. Taking a generative approach to inculpatory statements made by two real-life juries deliberating the same case, I first enumerate the distinct assertions made, by implication, about normal, innocent people (NIPs), and then reduce these to a smaller number of rules revolving around the general themes of rationality, emotions, language, and relationships.

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“…First, Alfred Schutz's (1959Schutz's ( , 1967 ideas on how humans produce expectations help in understanding the process of producing views about the future. Second, what David Gibson (2011aGibson ( , 2011b) calls 'foretalk' shows how different knowledges about the future fuse interactionally into a common view.…”

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“…Here, David Gibson's (2011aGibson's ( , 2011bGibson's ( , 2012 concept of 'foretalk' is helpful in understanding the production of new possible futures. He argues that the talk between two or more actors about possible futures can be considered as 'foretalk'.…”

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“…In the previous two sections, I described how economic forecasters regularly meet with other economists to exchange ideas, share new insights, and discuss problems, or in Gibson's (2011aGibson's ( , 2011b) words, to foretalk. As Evans (2007: 691) argues, these 'professional networks' are the source of certain types of expertise that help overcome the uncertainties of econometric models and help people judge between models.…”

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Epistemic participation: How to produce knowledge about the economic future

Reichmann

2013

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This article explores economic forecasting by examining the various social settings and networks economic forecasters are embedded in. It discusses how forecasters meet with political and economic actors and also how members of forecasting teams embody main aggregates of the economy to commonly produce a consensus about the economic future. The data underlying this article were collected from three economic forecasting institutes in German-speaking countries and consist of interviews with economic forecasters and representative users of the forecasts in economic and political organizations. The article argues that on the backstage of economic forecasting, macroeconomic models are subordinate. Rather, the production process of economic forecasts is embedded in various formal and informal networks. The article summarizes the activities on the backstage of economic forecasting by using the notion of 'epistemic participation'. This means that the forecasters give their object of inquiry, which is the economy, the opportunity to participate actively in the epistemic process. Epistemic participation has two dimensions: First, it takes place in a network including the forecasters and key individuals from the economy and economic policy. Second, forecasters identify with significant parts of the economy and give them a body and a voice. Epistemic participation conceptualizes the relationship between researchers and a highly reflexive and communicative object.

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Speaking of the Future: Contentious Narration During the Cuban Missile Crisis

Cited by 24 publications

References 27 publications

Narrative change, narrative stability, and structural constraint: The case of prisoner reentry narratives

Narrative change, narrative stability, and structural constraint: The case of prisoner reentry narratives

The Habits of Normal, Innocent People, as Construed by the North American Juror

Epistemic participation: How to produce knowledge about the economic future

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