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This volume presents both an analysis of how identities are built, represented and negotiated in narrative, as well as a theoretical reflection on the links between narrative discourse and identity construction. The data for the book are Mexican immigrants' personal experience narratives and chronicles of their border crossings into the United States. Embracing a view of identity as a construct firmly grounded in discourse and interaction, the author examines and illustrates the multiple threads that connect the local expression and negotiation of identity to the wider social contexts that frame the experience of migration, from material conditions of life in the United States to mainstream discourses about race and color. The analysis reveals how identities emerge in discourse through the interplay of different levels of expression, from implicit adherence to narrative styles and ways of telling, to explicit negotiation of membership categories.

Narrative representation -- Narrative representation and non-narrative representation -- Values of narrative -- Aesthetic education -- Criminal inhumanity -- Narrative criminology -- Contemporary aesthetic education -- Reading, detranscendentalisation, and epistemological performance -- Literary imagination, ethics, and impossibility -- Narrative understanding -- Empirical evidence -- Narrative ethics -- Ethical value and narrativity -- Ethicism -- Closural moral order -- Narrative knowledge -- Knowledge and narrativity -- Epistemic criterion -- Narrativity criterion -- Narrative justice -- Ethical knowledge and narrativity -- Fascist fictions -- Poetic justice? -- Narrative justice -- Narrative value -- Hyperbolic ethics and deconstructive politics -- Literature, empathy, and experimentation -- Conclusion, coherence, and correspondence -- Correlation, causation, and the law -- Gregory currie and martha nussbaum -- Responsibility for inhumanity -- Wars -- Charges -- Defending de man -- Commending Campbell -- Silence and deceit -- Silence and remorselessness -- The psychology of inhumanity -- In the heart of the country -- The person of the torturer -- In the heart of the whore -- The problem that troubles the novelist -- Undermining inhumanity -- Narrative strategies -- White genocide -- Crusader -- Reducing violent extremism -- Coda : methodology?

Narrationen – ob als Filme, Fernsehserien, Romane oder Computerspiele – ermöglichen es uns, in andere Welten einzutauchen und die Perspektiven der Figuren einzunehmen. Inwiefern diese Erfahrungen die Überzeugungen, Einstellungen, Intention und Verhalten der Rezipienten beeinflussen, untersucht das Forschungsfeld der narrativen Persuasion. Dieser Band stellt die zentralen kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Ansätze und Modelle zur Erklärung narrativer Persuasion vor, erläutert das typische methodische Vorgehen und gibt einen systematischen Überblick über den Forschungsstand. Abschließend werden kritische theoretische und methodische Aspekte diskutiert und aktuelle Entwicklungen im Forschungsfeld skizziert.Das Buch eignet sich für Studierende und Lehrende der Kommunikationswissenschaft und für andere Interessierte als Einführung, Nachschlage- oder Überblickswerk zu zentralen Konzepten, Prozessen und Befunden narrativer Persuasion.

"Narrative Sociology defines a field in the making. Narrative analysis has had a powerful presence within sociology for decades. Wherever everyday meaning making is at issue, narrative has been fundamental. It has been critical to the subfields of sociology that examine the social construction of categories, such as gender, race, sexuality, and disability, among others. It has figured heavily in subfields that deal with the collective creation of meaning, as in the study of social movements and, to a lesser degree, organizations more generally. As a causal approach, narrative has been critical to historical and comparative sociology. Although narrative research in sociology has long suggested the presence of theories, approaches, and works that are considered essential to the field, Narrative Sociology makes the narrative approach explicit. It delineates narrative sociology as a subfield by defining its central theoretical premises and identifying key theoretical debates and exemplary work. In doing so, this volume includes works that explore the kinds of questions that interest sociologists, such as the work narratives do in reproducing and maintaining inequality, in institutionalizing power, and in upending the status quo"--

This book systematically investigates intercultural experiences of Polish managers and specialists delegated by their multinational company (MNC) on an international assignment to China. The book employs narrative inquiry to explore language, intercultural communication, collaboration, learning, and expatriate adjustment in the MNC. This approach offers new insights into intercultural experiences, communication, and cultural challenges faced by an under-researched group of professionals exposed to intensive collaborations with the local managers and employees. The findings also illustrate how the expatriates learned to better navigate the multicultural and multilingual business context and what factors facilitated and inhibited their learning and adjustment. Encouraging the qualitative, context-sensitive examination of expatriate-local personnel interactions, the book will be an invaluable source for scholars and practitioners interested in, among others, novel approaches to investigating language and intercultural communication in international business, cross-cultural management, qualitative cross-cultural research, as well as for lecturers and students interested in Central Europe and China.

"Serving as an introduction to narrative methods and narrative analysis, Christine Bold's new book provides students, researchers, and other professionals with an introduction to the theory and practice of narrative approaches in research. This book provides clear coverage of the informing theories and principles that underpin narrative traditions and offers the reader guidance on the main methods of collecting and analyzing narrative data. This book does everything that a methods book needs to do. It is practical, yet sets out the theory and history behind the approach, and it looks explicitly at design, ethics, data gathering, data analysis and writing as an ongoing process of narrative research. Bold's text deals comprehensively with conceptual issues within narrative research and is driven throughout by a range of real research specific examples of narrative analysis in action. This is an ideal text for any student, researcher or professional interested in understanding and using narrative in research and analysis; it practical, example-driven coverage is ideally suited to those new to the field"--Publisher description

"The book examines narrative methods in the context of its multi-disciplinary social science origins, and looks at its theoretical underpinnings, while retaining an emphasis on the process of doing narrative research. Concrete, worked-through examples are also provided throughout, to help bridge the gap between theory and practice. The authors provide a comprehensive guide to narrative methods, taking the reader from initial decisions about forms of narrative analysis, through more complex issues of reflexivity, interpretation and the research context. The contributions included here clearly demonstrate the value of narrative methods for contemporary social research and practice. This book will be invaluable for all social science postgraduate students and researchers looking to use narrative methods in their own research." -- Book cover.

The cultural history of German migration society is still unwritten, even though, since the 1960s, numerous interactions and aesthetic negotiations have taken place in literature, film, and in societal debates and theories that have driven the transformation of the political system. This volume opens up an unexpected perspective on informal relations and potentials that have so far received little attention.