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This book documents and investigates the stories we have told and continue to tell about technology-now the dominant feature of our civilization-in fiction, non-fiction, film, and advertising. It answers important questions about the meanings people ascribe to technology, the hopes and fears we express in the different narratives, the effect of those narratives upon us, and the new forms of myth those narratives represent. Narratives of Technology offers an approach grounded in the humanities, adding another perspective to that of social scientists and technologists

Conceptual and theoretical framework -- Extremism and extremist narrative building in Pakistan -- Counter-extremism narratives in Pakistan -- Counter-narratives and socio-political reality -- Towards building comprehensive counter-narratives: reflections and suggestions.

It is increasingly clear that histories of secularization are not simply dispassionate descriptions of the decline of religious belief and practice in the West. Rather, such narratives often seek to celebrate secularization, promote some version of it, lament it, or otherwise oppose it in favour of a programme of desecularization or resacralization. The aim of this book is to identify some of the major genres of the history of secularization and to explore their historical contexts, normative commitments, and tendential purposes.ã The contributors to the volume offer different perspectives on these questions, not least because a number of them are themselves participants in the cultural-political programs described above. The primary purpose of this book, however, is the identification of such programs rather than their promotion. Overall, the collection seeks to bring analytical clarity to ongoing debates about secularization and help explain the co-existence of apparently conflicting stories about the origins of Western modernity. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Intellectual History Review journal

"2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide. This volume, the product of over twenty years of engagement with Rwanda and its diaspora, offers a timely reminder of the necessity of rethinking the genocide's social history. Examining a range of marginal stories and using Rwanda as a case study, The Marginalized in Genocide Narratives' analysis of the transformation of genocide into a powerful narrative of a nation establishes an innovative means of understanding the lived spaces of violence and its enduring legacy. In a distinctive approach to the social history of genocide, this book engages with the marginalised, foregrounds genocide's untold stories; and uses the conceptual framework of the constellation of genocide narratives to create connections among multiple social actors and identify narrative themes that address the unequal power and interdependence of narratives. Adopting a multi-level narrative methodology that addresses the value of multiple narrative framings for understanding genocides, The Marginalized in Genocide Narratives will appeal to students and researchers interested in sociology, conflict and peace studies history, African studies and narrative research. It may also appeal to policy makers interested in genocide studies and contemporary social history"--

In diesem Lehrbuch werden interessierte Studierende ebenso wie Berufspraktiker mit der Forschungslandschaft und dem analytischen Instrumentarium des narrativen Interviews vertraut gemacht. Das narrative Interview als Erhebungs- und Analyseverfahren stellt eine besonders einfühlsame und behutsame Form des offenen Interviews dar, die insbesondere der professionellen sozialen Arbeit im Hinblick auf die Erkundung und Analyse komplexer und hochdifferenzierter Lebenswelten und Problemlagen ihrer Klientel entgegenkommt. In diesem Lehrbuch werden interessierte Studierende ebenso wie Berufspraktiker sozusagen an die Hand genommen und mit der Forschungslandschaft und dem analytischen Instrumentarium des Forschungsverfahrens vertraut gemacht. Das Kernstück des Bandes bildet die Transkription eines autobiographisch-narrativen Interviews, dessen inhaltliche und formal-strukturelle Darstellung mit dem Leser nachvollzogen wird.

PART I: Introducing Discourse and Narrative Methods -- Chapter 1. The Becoming of a Textbook. A Readers Guide -- Chapter 2. Theoretical and Methodological Departures in Contested Fields of Study -- Chapter 3. Themes: Media and Society, Gender and Space, Autobiography and Life Writing PART II: Narrative and Discourse: Making Connections -- Chapter 4. Narrative Phenomena: Entanglements and Intra-Actions in Narrative Research -- Chapter 5. Discourse, Authoring and Performativity -- Chapter 6. Narrative Modalities of Power -- Chapter 7. Discourse, Power and Representation -- Chapter 8. Narrative as force -- Chapter 9. Discourses as Embodied Genealogies -- Chapter 10. Narrative and the Political PART III: Situated and Reflective Writing Sessions -- Chapter 11. A Politics of Location in Discourse and Narrative Methods -- Chapter 12. Working with Diaries and Letters -- Chapter 13. Working with Memories -- Chapter 14. Untimely Academic Novella Writing

Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book addresses the local governance of security and the ways in which the community engaged with attempts to improve the 'quality of life' of its residents and to attract wealthier new residents in the future by examining the process leading up to the demolition of a small council estate in the north of England and its subsequent regeneration.

Recipe for the future /[Gayle Reaves] --The loneliest polar bear (The Oregonian) /Kale Williams --Doomed by delay (Chicago Tribune) /Patricia Callahan --Dirty John (Los Angeles Times /Christopher Goffard --Twelve seconds of gunfire (Washington Post) /John Woodrow Cox --His heart, her hands (The Oregonian) /Tom Hallman Jr --The last refugee (The Boston Globe) /Jenna Russell --Wrong way (Tampa Bay Times) /Lisa Gartner and Zachary T. Sampson --About a boy (The Oregonian) /Casey Parks --Hope for the rest of us (Dallas Morning News) /Jennifer Emily --There's nowhere to run (The Washington Post) /Kent Babb --The house on the corner (Tampa Bay Times) /Lane DeGregory.