A Narrative Community
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Working With Stories In Your Community Or Organization
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Author : Cynthia F Kurtz
language : en
Publisher: Kurtz-Fernhout Publishing
Release Date : 2014-05-28
Working With Stories In Your Community Or Organization written by Cynthia F Kurtz and has been published by Kurtz-Fernhout Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-28 with categories.
"Working with Stories" is a textbook for people who want to use participatory narrative inquiry (PNI) in their communities and organizations. PNI methods help people discover insights, catch emerging trends, make decisions, generate ideas, resolve conflicts, and connect people. Participatory narrative inquiry draws on theory and practice in narrative inquiry, participatory action research, oral history, mixed-methods research, participatory theatre, narrative therapy, sensemaking, complexity theory, and decision support. Its focus is on the exploration of values, beliefs, feelings, and perspectives through collaborative sensemaking with stories of lived experience. Contents Introduction Fundamentals of Story Work What Is a Story? What Are Stories For? How Do Stories Work? Stories in Communities and Organizations A Guide to Participatory Narrative Inquiry Introducing Participatory Narrative Inquiry Project Planning Story Collection Group Exercises for Story Collection Narrative Catalysis Narrative Sensemaking Group Exercises for Narrative Sensemaking Narrative Intervention Narrative Return Appendices Example Models and Templates for Group Exercises Further Reading: Your PNI Bookshelf Bibliography Acknowledgements and Biography Glossary Index Reader praise "I wanted to say thanks for making Working with Stories available. It's an amazing piece of work, so simple (not the ideas, but the presentation) and unintimidating." "["Working With Stories"] is very thorough and helpful to me in exploring ways that I might capture the narrative of a project I am involved in." "Your detailed description of [the sensemaking] process is so useful and helpful. It makes seasoned facilitators like me yearn to try out the ideas." "Over the past few months I have been reading, reflecting, and feasting on your experiences working with stories. I am really excited to have found "Working With Stories" because it seems like a rich set of options for our needs." "Your terminology and explanation of participatory narrative inquiry have helped me greatly in understanding what I want from my practice and what I might be capable of achieving in social change." "I have been returning to Working With Stories time and again over the past six months to help support a community project, and my printed copy is underlined, noted and dog-eared."
A Narrative Community
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Author : Chaim Noy
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2006-11-07
A Narrative Community written by Chaim Noy and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-07 with Social Science categories.
Because of its unique interdisciplinary nature, A Narrative Community will be of interest to sociolinguists, folklore scholars, performance studies scholars, tourism scholars, and those interested in social discourses in Israel.
Narratives Of Community
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Author : Roxanne Harde
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Narratives Of Community written by Roxanne Harde and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Fiction categories.
Narratives of Community draws together essays that examine short story sequences by women through the lenses of Sandra Zagarellâ (TM)s theoretical essay, â oeNarrative of Community.â Reading texts from countries around the world, the collectionâ (TM)s twenty-two contributors expand scholarship on the genre as they employ diverse theoretical models to consider how female identity is negotiated in community or the roles of women in domestic, social and literary community. Grouped into four sections based on these examinations, the essays demonstrate how Zagarellâ (TM)s theory can provide a point of reference for multiple approaches to womenâ (TM)s writing as they read the semiotic systems of community. While â oenarrative of communityâ provides an organizing principle behind this collection, these essays offer critical approaches grounded in a wide variety of disciplines. Zagarell contributes the collectionâ (TM)s concluding essay, in which she provides a series of reflections on literary and cultural representations of community, on generic categorizations of community, and on regionalism and narrative of community as she returns to theoretical ground she first broke almost twenty years ago. Overall, these essays bring their contributors and readers into a community engaged with a narrative genre that inspires and affords a rich and growing tradition of scholarship. With Narratives of Community, editor Roxanne Harde offers a wealth of critical essays on a wide variety of women's linked series of short stories, essays that can be seen overall to explore the genre as a kind of meeting house of fictional form and meaning for an inclusive sororal community. The book itself joins a growing critical community of monographs and essay collections that have been critically documenting the rise of the modern genre of the story cycle to a place second only to the novel. But more than simply joining this critical venture, Narratives of Community makes a major contribution to studies in the short story, feminist theory, women's studies, and genre theory. Its introduction and essays should prove of enduring interest to scholars and critics in these fields, as well as continue highly useful in the undergraduate and graduate classrooms. â " Gerald Lynch, Professor of English, University of Ottawa The introduction, by Prof. Harde, and the 20 essays in the book dialogue with Sandra Zagarellâ (TM)s proposed paradigm â oenarratives of communityâ , which other scholars have called â oeshort story cyclesâ or â oestory sequencesâ . Zagarellâ (TM)s proposal organically blends a generic model with a thematic concern to explain how women writing community often turn to a particular narrative style that itself supports the literary creation of that community. Harde and the volume contributors appropriate this brilliant and engaging proposal in the context of other crucial discussions of the genreâ "notably Forest Ingramâ (TM)s germinal study, J. Gerald Kennedyâ (TM)s work, and those by Robert Luscher, Maggie Dunn and Anne Morris, James Nagel, Gerald Lynch and (Iâ (TM)m honored to note), my own study on Asian American short story cyclesâ "to expand the range of the critical discussion on the form. The quality and diversity of the essays remind us that there is still much work that can be done in the area of genre studies. The volume emphasizes an important caveat to one vital misconception: that although writers like James Joyce or Sherwood Anderson are thought to be the precursors or, even, â oeinventorsâ of the form, womenâ (TM)s sequences, by Sara Orne Jewett and Elizabeth Gaskell, among others, actually predate the work of the male writers. This fact suggests that the development of the form as a genre that attends to specific perspectives or creative formulations of and by women needs to be considered in depth. The temporal scope of the volume is therefore a vital contribution to scholarship on the form, as is the diversity of the writers analyzed. Indeed, the examination of narratives by writers from different countries and that focus on characters from different time periods, racial, religious, or ethnic communities, and social class impels a multilayered reading of the texts that inevitably promotes a nuanced understanding of the project of each of the writers, a project that connects issues of individuality and community in varied and often surprising ways. The essays thus critically explore the notion of community in its myriad associations with the individual and as a crucial site not only for womenâ (TM)s action upon the world but also for her creative endeavors. The essays in the volume revisit familiar textsâ "Naylorâ (TM)s The Women of Brewster Place, Cisnerosâ (TM)s The House on Mango Street, Kingstonâ (TM)s The Woman Warrior, Weltyâ (TM)s The Golden Apples, Munroâ (TM)s The Lives of Girls and Women, among othersâ "but offer new perspectives on the way form interacts with issues of womenâ (TM)s communities and women creating community in these works. Significantly, it also offers readings on texts that have not been analyzed in detail from this perspectiveâ "Gaskellâ (TM)s Cranford or Woolfâ (TM)s A Haunted House, for exampleâ "thus contributing to a continuing conversation about the ways women write. The juxtaposition of the familiar and the new expand the paradigms of current criticism not only on the story cycle but also on womenâ (TM)s writing in general. â "Rocio Davis, Professor of Literature, University of Navarre Roxanne Hardeâ (TM)s forthcoming volume, Narratives of Community: Womenâ (TM)s Short Story Sequences, provides an abundant collection of varied responses to Sandra Zagarellâ (TM)s longstanding call for further in-depth exploration of the genre that Zagarell christened â oethe narrative of communityâ in her 1988 essay linking non-novelistic narrative form with representations of female experience. As Harde observes, such narratives of community overlap significantly with the growing canon of unified but discontinuous collections of autonomous stories that critics have variously labeled as the short story cycle/ sequence/ composite . . . The essays in her collection examine a rich variety of such works by women, extending the scholarship in this area. . . Hardeâ (TM)s ample collection of essays presents a concerted and diverse exploration of the implications of the short story sequence form as a representation of womenâ (TM)s lives as part of and in conflict with membership in a community. . . . Overall, Hardeâ (TM)s volume is a welcome addition to current scholarship on the short story sequence, bringing in a variety of new voices and perspectives to the community of scholars who have engaged in the exploration of this paradoxical, evolving, and increasingly popular genre. â " Dr. Luscher
Storied Communities
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Author : Hester Lessard
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Storied Communities written by Hester Lessard and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Political communities are defined, and often contested, through stories. Scholars have long recognized that two foundational sets of stories � narratives of contact and narratives of arrival � helped to define settler societies. Storied Communities disrupts the assumption that Indigenous and immigrant identities fall into two separate streams of analysis. The authors juxtapose narratives of contact and narratives of arrival as they explore key themes such as narrative form, the nature of storytelling in the political realm, and the institutional and theoretical implications of foundation narratives. By doing so, they open up new ways to imagine, sustain, and transform political communities.
Narrative Medicine And Community Based Health Care And Planning
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Author : John W Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-09-30
Narrative Medicine And Community Based Health Care And Planning written by John W Murphy and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-30 with Psychology categories.
This progressive resource brings the innovative power of narrative medicine to the forefront of community public health care. Chapters describe community involvement across a continuum of control, from health consultants describing problems and suggesting solutions to health committees designing programs and evaluating results. Narrative strategies to this end, including authentic dialogue and community mapping, are examined in the context of public health and fleshed out with examples of different levels of participation by community members. From the respectful collaboration modeled here, the principles of community public health care can potentially expand beyond the immediate community into other social domains on a greater scale. Included in the coverage: · Narratives, local knowledge, and world entry. · Community and narratives. · What is dialogue? · Storylines, causes, and locus of interventions. · Community mapping tells a story. · The politics of storytelling. Narrative Medicine and Community-Based Health Care and Planning gives health psychologists, sociologists, social workers, and public health administrators realistic practical insights for tapping into the unique resources communities and clients have to offer. This is the next step in the evolution of public health, toward large-scale improvements in care delivery, access to and relevance of services, and patient and community outcomes.
Memory Identity Community
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Author : Lewis P. Hinchman
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1997-01-01
Memory Identity Community written by Lewis P. Hinchman and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
This multidisciplinary volume documents the resurrection of the importance of narrative to the study of individuals and groups and argues that narrative may become a lingua franca of future debates in the human sciences.
Narrative Therapy And Community Work
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Narrative Therapy And Community Work written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Aboriginal Australians categories.
Re Authoring The World
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Author : Chene Swart
language : en
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Release Date : 2013-12-06
Re Authoring The World written by Chene Swart and has been published by eBook Partnership this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-06 with Business & Economics categories.
Reauthoring the World invites readers to a transformational way of being in the world. It translates the Narrative Therapy approach and practices for people outside the therapeutic context that are interested in shifting the stories of their own lives as well as the communities and organisations that they work in.
The Tales That Bind
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Author : William Lowell Randall
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2015-02-05
The Tales That Bind written by William Lowell Randall and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-05 with Education categories.
Every year, thousands of new practitioners in professions such as social work, education, medicine, and the church leave the large urban centres where they received their training and go to work in small towns, remote hamlets, and other rural settings. Often they find themselves unprepared for professional life in these communities. Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted with more than forty practitioners working in a range of professions and communities throughout rural New Brunswick, The Tales that Bind presents a narrative approach to facing these challenges. Using fictionalized vignettes and autobiographical sketches, William Lowell Randall, Rosemary Clews, and Dolores Furlong argue that success as rural practitioners requires “knowing the story” – whether that is personal, communal, or regional. An accessible, practical guide to using narrative techniques in practice, The Tales that Bind is a unique resource for students, teachers, and professionals working in rural settings.
Narrated Communities Narrated Realities
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-05-19
Narrated Communities Narrated Realities written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-19 with Social Science categories.
Culture studies try to understand how people assume identities and how they perceive reality. In this perspective narration, as a basic form of cognitive processing, is a fundamental cultural technique. Narrations provide the coherence, temporal organization and semantic integration that are essential for the development and communication of identity, knowledge and orientation in a socio-cultural context. In essence, Anderson’s “Imagined Communities” need to be thought of as “Narrated Communities” from the beginning. Narration is made up by what people think; and vice versa, narration makes up people's thoughts. What is considered "fictitious" or "real" no longer separates narratives from an "outside" they refer to, but rather represents different narratives. Narration not only constructs notions of what was “real” in retrospect, but also prospectively creates possible worlds, even in the (supposedly hard) sciences, as in e.g. the imaginative simulation of physical processes. The book’s unique interdisciplinary approach shows how the implications of this fundamental insight go far beyond the sphere of literature and carry weight for both scholarly and scientific disciplines.