Shelley Sclater

The Uses of Narrative (eBook, ePUB)

Explorations in Sociology, Psychology and Cultural Studies

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Social scientists increasingly invoke "narrative" in their theory and research. This book explores the wide range of work in sociology, psychology and cultural studies in which narrative approaches have been used to study meaning, subjectivity, politics, and power in concrete contexts.The Uses of Narrative presents a range of case studies, including: Princess Diana's Panorama interview, media coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, memoirs of the wives of scientists who made the first atomic bomb, popular images of gay marriage, and the effect of the "Velvet Revolution" on writing autobiography.The book brings together contributions from European, Australian, and North American researchers, indicating the diversity and potential of narrative approaches. The editors adopt a distinctive and unique psychosocial approach to narrative, and set the individual chapters in the context of three broad themes: culture, life histories, and discourse. The Uses of Narrative complicates, challenges and stimulates--it will be of vital interest to sociologists, psychologists, social theorists, students of cultural studies, and others who are interested in the relationships between meaning, self and society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351301985
• Artikelnr.: 48959369

Autorenporträt

Shelley Sclater

Inhaltsangabe

I: Narrative and culture
Introduction
1: Narrative, civil society and public culture
2: Resurrective practice and narrative
3: Wedding bells and baby carriages
4: Narratives as bad faith
II: Narrative and life history
Introduction
5: When the story's over
6: A cautious ethnography of socialism
7: 'Papa's bomb'
8: Betrayals, trauma and self-redemption?
III: Narrative and discourse
Introduction
9: Narrative, discourse and the unconscious
10: Fictional(isitig) identity?
11: 'Let them rot'
12: Narrative and the discursive (re)construction of events