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Introduction : the phenomenology of institutional innovation -- Developing new modes of institutional description -- Governing by metaphor : the intertextuality of institutional life in China -- Relationality in rural property regimes -- Relational institutions and ENGOs in China : from Nu River to Changzhou -- Multiple legal traditions, legal pluralism and institutional innovation : the Chinese criminal procedure system in contrast -- Conclusion : China, the looking-glass.

AbstractPolicy is ostensibly crafted upon an overarching notion of rationality, in the form of rules, roles and designs. However, sometimes policy deviates from formal templates and seems to be guided by a different governing ethic. Rather than categorising these as policy anomalies, we can understand them as the workings of what we will refer to as a relational model of policy. The relational model describes how policy outcomes emerge from the working and reworking of relationships among policy actors. We define relationality and develop its use in policy research. While the relational can be depicted as an alternative model for policy (e.g., Confucian versus Weberian), it is more accurate to understand it as a system that complements conventional policy regimes. To illustrate the concept, we examine examples from policymaking in China. We end with a discussion of how relationality should be a general condition that should be applicable to many, if not all, policy situations.

'The Power of Narrative' provides fresh insight into the rhetorical and semantic properties on both sides of the climate change debate that preclude dialogue around climate science, and proposes a means for moving beyond ideological entrenchment through language mediation, further ethnographic study, and research-informed teaching.

"Narrative is the stuff of community. The book embarks on a quest to understand how narrative works to take an inchoate group of individuals and turn it into a cohesive social movement. To understand the power of narrative, the authors examine the particular phenomenon of climate skepticism. Somehow, the narrative of climate skepticism has been able to forge a movement and stake a challenge to the hegemony of the larger community of scientists on what is ostensibly a matter of science. The book asks: how is this achieved? What is the narrative of climate skepticism, and how has it evolved over time and diffused from place to place? Is it possible that this narrative shares with other narratives an underlying genetic code of sorts, a story that is more fundamental than all of these? How has the climate skeptical narrative contended with its other, which is the narrative-network of climate change science, and forged its own social movement? The outcome of this struggle between climate science and its denial has implications for society that go far beyond climatology. Using narrative analysis, the authors demonstrate how the narrative lens allows us unique insights into these questions. The book takes the reader on a journey, across times and places and social realms and, throughout, we see the power of narrative at work, making believers, or skeptics, of us all"--

AbstractThere are many reasons that people, when warned of an impending extreme event, do not take proactive, self‐defensive action. We focus on one possible reason, which is that, sometimes, people lack a sense of agency or even experience disempowerment, which can lead to passivity. This article takes up one situation where the possibility of disempowerment is salient, that of Rohingya refugees who were evicted from their homes in Myanmar and forced to cross the border into neighboring Bangladesh. In their plight, we see the twin elements of marginalization and displacement acting jointly to produce heightened vulnerability to the risks from extreme weather. Building on a relational model of risk communication, a consortium of researchers and practitioners designed a risk communication training workshop that featured elements of empowerment‐based practice. The program was implemented in two refugee camps. Evaluation suggests that the workshop may have had an appreciable effect in increasing participants' sense of agency and hope, while decreasing their level of fatalism. The outcomes were considerably more positive for female than male participants, which has important implications. This work underscores the potential for participatory modes of risk communication to empower the more marginalized, and thus more vulnerable, members of society.

AbstractThere is growing evidence that the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events may be increasing in conjunction with climate change. This means that many communities will encounter phenomena, such as extreme storm surge events, never before experienced by local residents. The tragic effects of Typhoon Haiyan on the city of Tacloban, Philippines, in November 2013 were attributed, in part, to the inability of routine technical bulletins to communicate the unprecedented nature of the predicted storm surge. In response, the authors construct a relational model of risk communication that suggests that narrative messages that simulate direct face-to-face communication may be more effective in spurring action. Conducting a postevent target audience study in the city of Tacloban, the authors tested the relative effectiveness of narrative-based versus technical message designs on residents who chose not to evacuate during the typhoon. Results show increased effectiveness of the narrative design vis-à-vis intent to evacuate, self-relevance and vividness of the message, and perceived authority of the message source. The study also explored factors behind noncompliance with evacuation advisories. The research supports the relational model, which captures insights from recent research on evacuation and emergency preparedness for extreme hazard events. It supports a broader effort to democratize risk communication and, in so doing, increase people's sense of agency in preparing for these events.

Intro -- Narrative, Identity, and the City -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Series editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- List of figures -- Chapter 1 Narrative, identity, and the city -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The city as discussed by scholars -- 1.3 The city in literature -- 1.4 The fragmented, unreal self of postmodernity -- 1.5 Different perspectives on place-identity-narrative -- 1.5.1Identity and place -- 1.5.2Identity and narrative -- 1.5.3City and narrative -- 1.6 Some more specific synergies -- 1.6.1The city affords the evolution of human subjects, and thereby also supplies the elements of plot -- 1.6.2City and self relate to each other through intertextuality -- 1.6.3The story of the city and the story of the self reflect each other -- 1.6.4The city provides occasions for narration -- 1.6.5The city threatens to decenter the teller -- 1.7 Method of analysis -- 1.8 Filipino materials -- Chapter 2 Story 1 The city found -- Chapter 3 Story 2 The city found -- Chapter 4 Commentary on the city found -- 4.1 Emplotment -- 4.1.1Story 1 -- 4.1.2Story 2 -- 4.2 Postmodernity -- 4.3 Intertextuality and diasporas -- Chapter 5 Story 3 The city lost -- The city: As it was -- The city: Day before Armageddon -- The city: Through Haiyan -- The city: In ruins -- The city: The road to recovery -- The city: Future uncertain -- The city: Within -- Chapter 6 Commentary on the city lost -- 6.1 Catharsis and survival -- 6.2 Trying to make sense -- 6.3 The city and the citizen -- 6.4 Decentered carrying on -- Chapter 7 Story 4 The city of silence -- Solitude -- Chapter 8 Commentary on the city of silence -- 8.1 The Word [sic] as sub-text -- 8.2 The city and the monastic -- 8.3 The cloister and the self -- 8.4 Memory and reflection -- Chapter 9 The narratively represented self-and-city.