Understanding Narrative Hermeneutics

Brockmeier, Jens; Meretoja, Hanna

doi:10.5250/storyworlds.6.2.0001

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“…Narrative inquiry is related to the organization of human experience and the assumption of the intentionality of human action (Czarniawska, 2004). This approach is suitable for the exploratory task of this study, considering its power to explore "plots" in a JEEE 13,4 way that is natural to the informant's lived reality (Brockmeier and Meretoja, 2014). More practically, our adoption of the narrative inquiry was guided by the life story interview (Atkinson, 2007;Atkinson, 1998).…”

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confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurial resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic: navigating survival, continuity and growth

Purnomo

Adiguna

Widodo

et al. 2021

JEEE

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Purpose This study aims to explore how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesia display resilience in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative research design was used, which involved semi-structured interviews on five creative industry-based businesses in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. A narrative inquiry approach was used to obtain an in-depth understanding of SMEs’ resilience. The data obtained were analyzed using thematic analysis via MaxQDA 2020. Findings The Covid-19 pandemic triggered the emergence of both new opportunities and new constraints for SMEs. These, in turn, significantly interrupt their business model. SMEs are found to navigate survival, continuity and growth by drawing from their resourcefulness and firm-level strategies to cope with the new opportunities and constraints. Research limitations/implications This study was conducted qualitatively based on five SMEs in the creative industry in Indonesia. This limits the ability to compare the findings across different economic sectors. Practical implications SMEs facing emergent constraints may need to find new ways to recombine existing resources and simultaneously seek to innovate their business model. Business owners and entrepreneurs should adopt a positive mindset such as optimism, perseverance and efficacy, to cope with adversity. Growth-oriented SMEs may make use of a competitive mindset such as flexibility, speed and innovation, to spot and exploit opportunities that emerge from the crisis. Social implications SMEs’ resilience should be understood not only in terms of economic survival and continuity but, more deeply, about their social contribution to the localities where they operate. Originality/value This study illustrates the process of how adaptive resilience is adapted and executed by SMEs. It also contributes to entrepreneurial resilience and resourcefulness literature by explaining how entrepreneurs anticipate, respond to and leverage from the crisis.

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confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurial resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic: navigating survival, continuity and growth

Purnomo

Adiguna

Widodo

et al. 2021

JEEE

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“…Partly because of a culture of self and authenticity and the decline of grand narratives, the voices of regular people took on an unusual centrality and were presented as current dispositions of subjectivity (Arfuch 2019). In this process, narratological approaches (Abbot 2007), hermeneutic perspectives (Brockmeier and Meretoja 2014;Ricoeur 1991) or proposals of discursive psychology (Potter 2003), among others, have delved into different aspects of what people say about themselves.…”

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“I Have Apostatized”: Self-Narratives of Catholic Apostasy as Resources for Collective Mobilization in Argentina

Rabbia

2022

Religions

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Since 2009, the Collective Apostasy Campaign in Argentina has mobilized some people who are opposed to the political interference of the Catholic Church through the formal act of apostatizing. The politicization of sexual and reproductive rights, and, especially, the fight for the legalization of abortion, led to the campaign that acquired great public repercussions between 2018 and 2020. This paper analyzes 13 self-narratives of apostasy publicly available since 2009, digging into its plot, motives to apostatize, and motivation for its publicizing. Through a thematic analysis, the diverse self-narratives show similar motivations (to promote social debate on political secularization in the country), although they differ in the centrality of their personal, sociopolitical, and procedural motives to apostatize. The stories that apostates tell are resources for social mobilization as they seek an increasingly broad audience and serve the pedagogical function of sharing arguments against the political role of the Catholic Church and in favor of personal ideological coherence.

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“…Brockmeier and Meretoja claim that hermeneutics plays a particularly vital role in narrative explanations: "...we propose viewing narrative as a hermeneutic practice in itself, a practice of meaning-making. This practice or perhaps better, this plethora of practices is of crucial significance for complex processes of interpretation that underlie, for instance, our ideas of self and identity" [30].…”

Section: Theoretical Foundationsmentioning

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The Narrative of Militancy: A Case Study of Swat, Pakistan

Shah

Nawab

Nyborg

et al. 2020

Journal of Human Security

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Unlike other faith-based conflicts, the militancy in Swat seems unique, as militants used religion for promoting their agenda and giving voices to the grievances of the poor people through a popular narrative likely without knowing narratology. Using narratives and narratology as a theoretical framework, this qualitative study is an effort to understand the essence of militants' narrative in Swat and the mechanism through which they steered it up until the time it gained verisimilitude. Conducting 73 semi-structured interviews, the study finds that it was a planned strategy of the militants that popularized them in Swat, while they later lost this support due to their atrocities against general populace. The militants used the socially and culturally constructed narrative through FM radio and motivated the masses to follow their ideology and brand of Islamic Sharia. The study concludes that the formulation and popularization of social narratives play vital roles in social movements and conflicts to muster popular support for promoting vested interests that can be used against the state and general public.

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Understanding Narrative Hermeneutics

Cited by 39 publications

References 11 publications

Entrepreneurial resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic: navigating survival, continuity and growth

Entrepreneurial resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic: navigating survival, continuity and growth

“I Have Apostatized”: Self-Narratives of Catholic Apostasy as Resources for Collective Mobilization in Argentina

The Narrative of Militancy: A Case Study of Swat, Pakistan

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