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Journal articles on the topic "Meta-narratives"

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Vaughan, William, Michael Hardt, and Antonio Negri. "Return of the Meta-Narratives." South Central Review 19, no. 4 (2002): 135. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3190140.

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Thornborrow, Joanna. "Meta-narratives of Cultural Experience." Narrative Inquiry 12, no. 2 (December 31, 2002): 447–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.12.2.17tho.

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Englund and Leach. "Ethnography and the Meta-Narratives of Modernity." Current Anthropology 41, no. 2 (2000): 225. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3596698.

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Englund, Harri, and James Leach. "Ethnography and the Meta‐Narratives of Modernity." Current Anthropology 41, no. 2 (April 2000): 225–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/300126.

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Causadias, José M., Kimberly A. Updegraff, and Willis F. Overton. "Moral meta-narratives, marginalization, and youth development." American Psychologist 73, no. 6 (September 2018): 827–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0000252.

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SEACHRIS, JOSHUA. "Death, futility, and the proleptic power of narrative ending." Religious Studies 47, no. 2 (June 14, 2010): 141–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034412510000223.

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AbstractDeath and futility are among a cluster of themes that closely track discussions of life's meaning. Moreover, futility is thought to supervene on naturalistic meta-narratives because of how they will end. While the nature of naturalistic meta-narrative endings is part of the explanation for concluding that such meta-narratives are cosmically or deeply futile, this explanation is truncated. I argue that the reason the nature of the ending is thought to be normatively important is first anchored in the fact that narrative ending qua ending is thought to be normatively important. Indeed, I think futility is often thought to characterize naturalistic meta-narratives because a narrative's ending has significant proleptic power to elicit a wide range of broadly normative human responses on, possibly, emotional, aesthetic, and moral levels towards the narrative as a whole.
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Ratcliff, Chelsea L., and Ye Sun. "Overcoming Resistance Through Narratives: Findings from a Meta-Analytic Review." Human Communication Research 46, no. 4 (February 1, 2020): 412–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hqz017.

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Abstract To understand the mechanisms underlying narrative persuasion, a growing body of theoretical and empirical work suggests that narratives reduce audience resistance, possibly via narrative engagement. To synthesize this research, we performed a two-part meta-analysis using three-level random-effects models. Part I focused on experimental studies that directly compared narratives and non-narratives on resistance. Based on 15 effect sizes from nine experimental studies, the overall effect size was d = −.213 (equivalent r = −.107; p < .001), suggesting that narratives generated less resistance than non-narratives. Part II was a synthesis of studies of the relationship between narrative engagement and resistance, consisting of 63 effect sizes from 25 studies. Narrative engagement and resistance were negatively correlated (r = −.131; p < .001), and this relationship was moderated by narrative message characteristics, including genre, length, medium, and character unit. Implications of our findings and directions for future research are discussed.
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Gudehus, Christian. "Germany's Meta-narrative Memory Culture: Skeptical Narratives and Minotaurs." German Politics and Society 26, no. 4 (December 1, 2008): 99–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/gps.2008.260406.

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This article is based on the findings of an empirical study that is being conducted in Austria, Poland, and Germany. The material consists of a total of sixty group discussions with families, people of different age groups, as well as individuals dealing professionally with history and memory, including historians, teachers, politicians, journalists, displaced persons, and Jewish communities. Even if there are differences within every country, one clearly can observe dominant country-specific ways of speaking about the past. The German discourse could be described as a meta-narrative. Germans do not speak mainly about the past itself, but rather about how it should or should not be represented. The narrations are highly skeptical and unheroic. By contrast, the Polish discourse is almost devoid of skeptical narratives. Notions such as “historical truth,” “national pride” and “national history” were dominant in the discussions. The article concludes by noting that even though the modes of narrating the past are different in Germany and Poland, its function remains untouched: the past is always a resource for the construction of coherence and meaning.
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Emeka Chukwumezie, Thomas-Michael, Onyemuche Anele Ejesu, and Onyeka Emeka Odoh. "Folkloric Meta-Narratives In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 8, no. 2 (March 31, 2019): 102. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.8n.2p.102.

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Following Chinua Achebe’s claim that his Things Fall Apart is a counter-narrative to Joyce Cary’s distortion of the African image in Cary’s Mister Johnson, most critics of Things Fall Apart have approached the existence of folklore in the novel from the perspective of cultural affirmation. Others see it as part of the artistic ornament used to deck the work. Be that as it may, this paper does not intend to dispute these perspectives. It rather intends to prove that Achebe’s use of folklore in Things Fall Apart is not just to affirm the functionality of folk culture in the precolonial African society depicted in this novel but also to buttress several sequence of events of the novel. It argues that the folkloric narratives within the larger narrative that is Things Fall Apart function as specialized meta-narratives which play an interesting array of roles in the novel, namely: to run commentaries on the incidents that surround the hero’s life; to show how folkloric wisdom in the novel appears to warn against certain unethical actions of the hero and to comment on the significance of some executed actions in the novel; as well as to foreshadow impending tragic situations in the life of the hero just like the chorus in Greek tragic plays. The methodology for this study is a critical analysis of the text in the light of a recontextualised and re-imagined application of Jean-Francois Lyotard’s concept of metanarrative. Unlike Lyotard’s notion of a metanarrative as a grand narrative that helps to legitimize other little narratives, we elect to read folkloric meta-narratives as related miniature versions of different sequences of the story of the novel, Things Fall Apart.
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Rawlins, William K. "Meta-Rhetorical Activities of Reading and (Re)Writing Narratives." Review of Communication 7, no. 2 (April 2007): 186–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15358590701371672.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Meta-narratives"

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Croisy, Sophie Pascale. "Other cultures of trauma meta-metropolitan narratives and identities /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0013645.

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Mercan, Ali Serkan. "From Globalization To Empire: A Critical Evaluation Of Dominant Meta-narratives." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608880/index.pdf.

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ABSTRACT FROM GLOBALIZATION TO EMPIRE: A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF DOMINANT META-NARRATIVES Mercan, A. Serkan M. S., Department of Political Science and Public Administration Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Galip L. Yalman September 2007, 172 pages &ldquo
Globalization&rdquo
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empire&rdquo
are the dominant meta-narratives of 1990s and 2000s successively. The liberal perception/presentation of the former finds its expression in the claims of trans-(supra)-nationalization. In addition, the theoretical and pejorative usages of the latter, which has flourished since 9/11 attacks to the World Trade Center in New York are also based on similar claims of trans-(supra)-nationalization. However, these claims seem not convincing in a world in which nation-states secure their central role in the organization of capitalist social relations. In this thesis, those meta-narratives will be critically evaluated by also taking into account the role of the US in world capitalist system. Such a critical outlook is essential for highlighting the persistence of capital relation with its contradictory nature and for developing some tentative ideas about the ways in which the organization/management of contemporary world capitalism as a multiple state system should be analyzed. Keywords: Globalization, empire, nation-state, capital relation, trans-(supra)-nationalization
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Stokes, Peter John. "Boats, caves, spies and stories : a narrative study of outdoor management development programmes in the United Kingdom." Thesis, Brunel University, 2000. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5506.

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The thesis develops new understanding in relation to Outdoor Management Development (OMD). The argument is in three parts. Part One reviews notions of management development within which OMD is conventionally located. It underlines the powerful influence of a modernistic positivistic-objectivist methodological paradigm in much of the OMD commentary, manifesting itself as an objectivised corporate imperative of optimum effectiveness and efficiency. Complementary critical perspective paradigms are introduced including comments on narrative and social construction. In relation to this context, the argument presents a contemporary set of images sourced from prima facie conceptualisations of the OMD domain. Part Two considers possibilities for revisiting the contextualisation of OMD. This is undertaken through a contemporaneous and diachronic look at OMD. This involves a novel debate on the "origins" of OMD and comments on the neglected influences important to how individuals construct narrative. Certain narrative accounts in OMD writing are reviewed. These are shown to be very influenced by the predominant positivist paradigm. The third and final Part of the argument presents: Methodology, Stories and Conclusion. The debate develops a qualitative participant observer approach that facilitates the writing of narratives that underline the reflexive and deeply personal experience that the research involves. The Stories are accompanied by reflective commentaries. The argument concludes and contributes a number of points. The contemporaneous conceptualisation of OMD is positivistic and this is a consequence of its close association with modernistic perspectives of management thinking. Also, modernistic meta-narratives have been apparent in the historical accounts in the field. Consequently, stoned and narrative accounts have been marginalised but where written they are imbued with positivism also. Bearing the above in mind the thesis writes fresh socially constructive accounts of experiences in OMD contexts and provides reflective commentary on them.
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Toepfer, Shane. "A Community of Smarks: Professional Wrestling and the Changing Relationship between Textual Producers and Consumers." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_theses/15.

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This analysis of the professional wrestling genre attempts to understand the complex reading practices employed by wrestling’s fan community. I argue that wrestling fans consume these texts in the context of both the official narratives of media producers and the meta-narratives that exist independently of the official texts. In addition, I argue that wrestling fans display characteristics normally reserved for traditional media producers, collaborating with those producers over the direction of the official narratives. This process of collaboration is indicative of the blurring of the boundaries between textual producers and consumers and necessitates a theoretical conception of the audience that accounts for these unique fan practices. I have called this audience conception the productive audience model.
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Crone, Barber Katie L. "The construction of meta-narratives : perspectives on Pan-Africanism and nationalism in Ghana, 1957-1966." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/8210/.

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This thesis explores the development and deployment of two political meta-narratives, Pan-Africanism and nationalism, in both the Gold Coast/Ghana, and amongst diaspora intellectuals and activists. Through a close examination of the published and personal writings of those who engaged with these meta-narratives – African American intellectuals, West Indian activists, and the first post-colonial African Prime Minster of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah – the extent to which context impacts upon the development of these ideas will be demonstrated. Considering the interaction between the construction of meta-narratives and socio-political change, this thesis will argue that broader historical changes fundamentally shaped how these sets of ideas were interpreted, and in turn, Pan-Africanism and nationalism provided a framework for how those historical changes were understood. The resulting interaction between ideas and practices led to a wide variation in meanings attributed to the meta-narratives, and it was from these variations that Nkrumah began to articulate his own understandings of Pan-Africanism and nationalism in the mid-twentieth century. This is demonstrated through the placing of Nkrumah’s worldview within a longer history of Pan-Africanism. In situating his work this way, both the flexibility and potency of meaning that both meta-narratives provided becomes apparent. It is here argued that Nkrumah responded to a range of domestic, continental, and international influences, and his responses demonstrate both his understanding of the meta-narratives, and how this understanding changed over a relatively short period of time. As a result, Nkrumah’s development of and alterations to Pan-Africanism and nationalism were consistent with their historical utilisation, and not a reflection of his personal search for power. In analysing the interaction between thought and action on both sides of the Atlantic, the thesis also considers the experiences of African American émigrés to Ghana, and how their personal experiences in the USA, and subsequently in Ghana, altered and informed their understanding of Pan-Africanism. ‘Africa’ had played a powerful role in the African American imagination for decades, but it had been an imagined version of the continent, one which was intended to reinforce and direct self-perception among the diaspora. In choosing to emigrate to Ghana, a small group were brought into direct contact, mostly for the first time, with a very different reality. Through extended periods of interaction with Africa, diaspora assumptions about the continent were challenged, and those present were forced to reconsider the relationship between nationalism and Pan-Africanism in new ways.
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Sjöberg, Sara, and Marija Stamenkovic. "Vad är meningen med det här? : En studie om intranätets påverkan på medarbetares identitetsskapande processer i en föränderlig organisation." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-325048.

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Denna uppsats utgångspunkt är att undersöka intranätets möjliga påverkan på anställdas identitetsskapande där syftet är att undersöka den roll intranätet har i form av vidmakthållande och/eller upprättande av organisationsidentiteten. Detta görs genom att studera hur innehållet på intranätet genom olika kommunikationsaktiviteter och tolkningsprocesser medarbetare emellan bidrar till formningen av identiteten inom organisationen. Genom att betrakta organisationsidentitet som ett kommunikationsfenomen appliceras ett kommunikationsperspektiv på organisationer där CCO-perspektivet, genom konceptet om metakonversationer, utgör det centrala teoretiska ramverket. För denna undersökning tillämpas kvalitativa metoder. Detta görs med empiriunderlag från en fallorganisation, Försäkringskassan, där den huvudsakliga datainsamlingen består av fokusgruppsdiskussioner med medarbetare på handläggarnivå där två olika grupper undersöks. Resultaten har analyserats utifrån underliggande, kognitiva koncept och funnit att grupperna genom att agera utifrån olika synsätt på sin organisationsidentitet också väljer att ta del av olika typer av innehåll från organisationens intranät, vilket i sin tur avgör vilken roll intranätet kan anses fylla.
This thesis intends to investigate an intranet's possible impact on employee identity creation, where the aim is to study the role of the intranet in the maintenance and/or establishment of organizational identity. This is carried out by studying how published content on the intranet through various communication activities and processes of interpretation contributes to the formation of the employees’ identity within the organization. By considering organizational identity as a communication phenomenon, a communication perspective is applied to organizations where the CCO-perspective, through the concept of meta-conversations, has come to form the central theoretical framework. Qualitative methods are used for this study. The empirical findings are gathered from a case organization, Försäkringskassan, and consist of focus group discussions with administrative officials from two different groups. The results have been analyzed based on underlying cognitive concepts and indicate that the groups act based on different perceptions of their organizational identity, which have impact on what type of content they choose to take part in, something that further determines the role that the intranet can be considered to fill.
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Fowler, Lori Ann Moore Ami R. "Breast implants for graduation? parent and adolescent narratives /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2008. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-6111.

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Pillainayagam, Priyanthan A. "The After Effects of Colonialism in the Postmodern Era: Competing Narratives and Celebrating the Local in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1337874544.

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Blake, Dale Selma. "Elliott Merrick's Labrador : re-inventing the meta-narratives of the North /." 1993. http://collections.mun.ca/u?/theses,173348.

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Wolansky, Randall. "Conflicting values ; "official" and "counter" meta-narratives on human rights in Canadian foreign policy - the case of East Timor." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11468.

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Belief in human rights is a value central to the Canadian self-image. Canadians view the development of Canada's international peacekeeping role and overseas development assistance program in the post-1945 era as the foreign policy manifestation of this belief. It has led to the national myth of the country as a "Humanitarian Middle Power". Canada's response to Indonesia's oppressive occupation of East Timor (1975 - 1999) contradicted this national myth. The concept of meta-narrative, of political mythmaking, is used to examine the reasons why the Liberal and Progressive Conservative governments in Ottawa during this period perceived Canada's national interest in maintaining a strong economic relationship with Jakarta over the protection of human rights in East Timor. These "Official" meta-narratives were countered by Canadian human rights activists, such as the East Timor Alert Network, who stressed the primacy of human rights in foreign-policy decision-making. Ultimately, this debate represents a conflict of values in Canadian society. The "Official" meta-narrative has developed since World War II in active support of the capitalist world-system dominated by the United States, whereas the "Counter" meta-narrative challenges the morality of that system. The "Humanitarian Middle Power" myth, which is at the core of the Canadian identity vis-a-vis the international community, is not completely invalid, but it is greatly limited by the firm adherence of Canadian governments to the world economic structure.
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Books on the topic "Meta-narratives"

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Prévost, Eddie. No sound is innocent: AMM and the practice of self-invention, meta-musical narratives, essays. Matching Tye, near Harlow, Essex, UK: Copula, 1995.

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Chakravarti, Uma. Of meta-narratives and "master" paradigms: Sexuality and the reification of women in early India. New Delhi: Centre for Women's Development Studies, 2009.

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Chakravarti, Uma. Of meta-narratives and "master" paradigms: Sexuality and the reification of women in early India. New Delhi: Centre for Women's Development Studies, 2009.

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Schembri, A. M., and V. Coppini. Meta konna żgh̳ar. Msida: l-Istamperija taʼ l-Università, 1995.

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Koprivica, Veseljko. Operacija Dubrovnik: Sve je bilo meta. Zagreb: Kapitol, 2004.

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Mizzi, Laurence. Meta Faqqgh̳et il-gwerra: Antoloġija ta' tifkiriet. [Bugelli, Valletta]: Pubblikazzjoni Bugelli, 1990.

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Kounio-Amarilio, Erika. Penēnta chronia meta--: Anamnēseis mias Salonikiōtissas Hevraias. Thessalonikē: Paratērētēs, 1995.

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Rēttas, Dēmētrēs. Spithes ap' tē chovolē: Meta tē Varkiza--. Athēna: Ekdōseis Dōdōnē, 1996.

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Neophytou-Mouzourou, Androula. Anamnēseis apo ton agōna tēs EOKA: 40 chronia meta : hē drasē sto Kaimakli. Leukōsia: [s.n.], 2002.

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Beck, Barbara, ed. Apparition Poem #1488. Paris, France: Upstairs at Duroc, 2014.

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Book chapters on the topic "Meta-narratives"

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Thornborrow, Joanna. "Meta-narratives of cultural experience." In Considering Counter-Narratives, 270–75. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sin.4.34tho.

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Shelley, Catherine. "Theological Ethical Processes and Meta-Narratives." In Ethical Exploration in a Multifaith Society, 229–61. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46711-5_8.

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Taylor, Millie, and Dominic Symonds. "‘What’s the Buzz?’: Meta-narratives and Post-linearity." In Studying Musical Theatre, 115–32. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-27096-2_8.

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Daiute, Colette, Robert O. Duncan, and Fedor Marchenko. "Meta-communication Between Designers and Players of Interactive Digital Narratives." In Interactive Storytelling, 134–42. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04028-4_10.

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Blackwell, Sarah E. "Porque in Spanish Oral Narratives: Semantic Porque, (Meta)Pragmatic Porque or Both?" In Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 615–51. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12616-6_25.

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Silverstein, Cory. "FIVE. Beyond Selves and Others: Embodying and Enacting Meta-Narratives with a Difference." In Feminist Fields, edited by Rae Bridgman, Sally Cole, and Heather Howard-Bobiwash, 70–85. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781442602571-006.

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Scott, Michael. "Knowledge of Governance as Knowledge for Governance: Spatialized Techniques of Neutralization." In Knowledge for Governance, 51–67. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47150-7_3.

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AbstractThe term governance often evokes processes of negotiation and collaboration between civil society, private sector, and state actors. Yet, governance processes also involve a contest of ideas in efforts to legitimate state-backed decision making. Drawing on empirical cases of coastal property developments in South Australia, this chapter investigates how key actors in land-use governance—such as developers, planners, politicians, and scientists—reflexively deploy “techniques of neutralization” to deflect critiques and manage opposition to contentious new developments. The author explores how these techniques draw on particular spatial metaphors and images to suggest that, somewhat ironically, a tacit meta technique is to neutralize the projected environmental risks to coastal space through narratives of time. By outlining these everyday techniques of neutralization, the author argues that such routines are a form of knowledge of governance—knowing what can be said and ways of speaking within governance processes—that is in turn a form of knowledge for governance.
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Gold, Marina. "Conceptualizing Change in the Cuban Revolution." In Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation, 89–111. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65067-4_4.

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AbstractThis paper will consider two levels within the study of the Cuban revolution: the meta-narratives of change and continuity that determine the academic literature on Cuba and inform political positioning in relation to the revolution, and the methodological challenges in understanding how people in Cuba experience change and continuity in their daily life. Transformation and continuity have been the two dominant analytical tropes used to interpret Cuban social and political life since the overthrow of the Batista regime in 1959. For Cuban scholars and politicians, a focus on change in reference to what was Cuba’s reality before the Revolution is a continuous concern and a powerful discursive mechanism in redefining and reinvigorating the revolutionary project. Simultaneously, in periods of crisis throughout the 62 years since the revolution, the capacity to demonstrate continuity with revolutionary principles while developing new mechanisms to redefine the political project has ensured the revolution’s subsistence. Conversely, continuity and change are also harnessed by critics of Cuba’s current regime to articulate the ever-imminent collapse of socialism in the region. Change has been their main focus of concern during critical historic moments that affected the trajectory of the Cuban revolutionary project. From this perspective, change embodies a promise of progress and implies a movement toward liberal democracy and a pro-US foreign policy, while continuity denotes failure, stagnation, and repression. At the core of the analysis of change in Cuba lies a concern with the nature of the state. Ethnographic data reveals the partialities and contradictions people experience in their daily life and across time. Two elements of ethnographic experience are particularly informative: life histories that span across the revolutionary period, and generational conflicts surrounding political issues. I will focus on the life history of key informants and the generational conflicts that surround their experience, a well as their material contexts (their neighborhood, their house, their job), all of which help to elucidate the complexities of studying change within a permanent revolution.
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Harré, Rom. "The logical basis of psychiatric meta-narratives." In Reconceiving Schizophrenia, 295–306. Oxford University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198526131.003.0015.

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Henderson, Willie. "Postmodernism and the Enlightenment Meta-narratives, enlightenment and paradoxgordon's." In A Research Annual, 291–96. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/s0743-4154(2009)00027a017.

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Conference papers on the topic "Meta-narratives"

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Ovodova, Svetlana. "Representation of Cultural Traumas in Contemporary Public Discourse: “New Frankness” of Meta-Modernism." In The Public/Private in Modern Civilization, the 22nd Russian Scientific-Practical Conference (with international participation) (Yekaterinburg, April 16-17, 2020). Liberal Arts University – University for Humanities, Yekaterinburg, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35853/ufh-public/private-2020-04.

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The prerequisites for this study are criticism of postmodernism by theorists and philosophers of culture, and the actualisation of metamodernism as one of the most popular theories of postmodernism. The relevance of the study is determined by the appearance of a ‘new sensitivity’ having arisen from geopolitical events of the 2000s. Metamodernism theory authors declare the new structure of sensation to be different from the dominants of postmodernism and modernism. The article describes the transformation of the representation of cultural traumas in public discourse with the consideration of ideas of metamodernism and a new frankness. The article covers the methodological capabilities for using postmodernism and metamodernism discourses for analysing the principles of representation of cultural trauma within public discourse. Distinguishing features of new frankness are highlighted. Immortal Regiment action is analysed as an example of actualisation of personal experience and family history in public discourse. The concept of ‘new frankness’ increases the role and significance of the witness. The examples of works of contemporary mass culture and media resources are used to trace the actualisation of the witness’s narrative of cultural trauma. Warmth, depth, and affect, characteristic of metamodernism, actualise the demand for plausibility and personal experience of an event. An indirect effect of these hypotheses consists in that narratives on cultural trauma are multivariate as manifested in criticism of the conventional image of a historic event. Re-evaluating historical events from different points of view triggers mechanisms of latent trauma, potentially making almost any historical event a cultural trauma. The study resulted in the revelation of accentuation of sensitivity in narratives of cultural traumas, as opposed to manners prevailing in modernism and postmodernism discourses, i.e. practices of stigmatisation, suppression, and the commodification of cultural traumas.
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