Journal articles: '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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Leontini, Rose. "Genetic risk and reproductive decisions: Meta and counter narratives." Health, Risk & Society 12, no. 1 (February 2010): 7–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698570903508705.

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Chen, Ching-Chang, and Kosuke Shimizu. "International relations from the margins: the Westphalian meta-narratives and counter-narratives in Okinawa–Taiwan relations." Cambridge Review of International Affairs 32, no. 4 (July 4, 2019): 521–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2019.1622082.

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Oschatz, Corinna, and Caroline Marker. "Long-term Persuasive Effects in Narrative Communication Research: A Meta-Analysis." Journal of Communication 70, no. 4 (April 1, 2020): 473–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqaa017.

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Abstract This meta-analysis builds on the broad and diverse research on the persuasive effects of narrative communication. Researchers have found that narratives are a particularly effective type of message that often has greater persuasive effects than non-narratives immediately after exposure. The present study meta-analyzes whether this greater persuasive power persists over time. Results are based on k1 = 14 studies with k2 = 51 effect sizes for immediate measurement (N = 2,834) and k2 = 66 effect sizes for delayed measurement (N = 2,459). They show that a single narrative message has a stronger persuasive impact than a non-narrative message on attitudes and intentions at immediate as well as on attitudes, intentions, and behaviors at delayed measurement. Both message types did not differently affect the participants’ beliefs. Meta-analytic structural equation modeling confirms transportation as a mediator of immediate persuasive effects.

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Gonsalves, Christine A., Kerry R. McGannon, Robert J. Schinke, and Ann Pegoraro. "Mass media narratives of women’s cardiovascular disease: a qualitative meta-synthesis." Health Psychology Review 11, no. 2 (February 2017): 164–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17437199.2017.1281750.

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Heilke, Thomas. "Theological and Secular Meta‐Narratives of Politics: Anabaptist Origins Revisited (Again)." Modern Theology 13, no. 2 (April 1997): 227–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0025.00039.

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Bøås, Morten. "Uganda in the regional war zone: meta-narratives, pasts and presents." Journal of Contemporary African Studies 22, no. 3 (September 2004): 283–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0258900042000283476.

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Shen, Fuyuan, Vivian C. Sheer, and Ruobing Li. "Impact of Narratives on Persuasion in Health Communication: A Meta-Analysis." Journal of Advertising 44, no. 2 (April 3, 2015): 105–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00913367.2015.1018467.

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Twis, Mary, and Regina Praetorius. "A qualitative interpretive meta-synthesis of evangelical Christian sex trafficking narratives." Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought 40, no. 2 (January 27, 2021): 189–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2020.1871153.

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Dürbeck, Gabriele. "Narrative des Anthropozän – Systematisierung eines interdisziplinären Diskurses." Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 3, no. 1 (July 11, 2018): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/kwg-2018-0001.

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Abstract The Anthropocene concept originates from earth system sciences and conceptualizes humanity as a planetary geophysical force. It links current action-oriented time horizons to Earth historical deep time and implies non-separability of natures-cultures. The Anthropocene concept has resonated in debates in natural and social sciences, the humanities and the broader public, serving as an inter- and transdisciplinary bridging concept. Based on an analysis of numerous texts from multiple scientific disciplines and media, this contribution distinguishes five narratives of the Anthropocene: the disaster narrative, the court narrative, the Great Transformation narrative, the (bio-)technological and the interdependence narrative. The five narratives articulate very different perspectives and experiences and transport divergent political, economic, ethical and anthropological values and interests; this is also shown in alternative conceptualizations such as Eurocene, Technocene, Capitalocene or Plantationocene. The analysis reveals that the narratives share significant structural characteristics concerning story, plot, protagonists, spatial and temporal structure and action-oriented emplotment which together can be referred to a meta-narrative of the Anthropocene. Since the partly overlapping, partly contradictory narratives compete for legitimation and dominance in science and the broader public, the findings raise the question whether this struggle will stabilize or undermine the Anthropocene meta-narrative in the long run.

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Hetland, Per. "Internet Between Utopia and Dystopia." Nordicom Review 33, no. 2 (December 1, 2012): 3–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/nor-2013-0010.

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Abstract The Internet has often been envisioned as a technological utopia, framed by the rhetoric of hope. However, after studying the popular discourse, three meta-narratives are identified: utopian narratives containing the pro-innovation position; dystopian narratives containing the anti-diffusion position; technology-as-risk narratives containing the control position. While narratives of anti-diffusion are more or less invisible, narratives of control are surprisingly absent from the scientific discourse about the Internet. The present article sets out to explore narratives of control as they were presented in the Norwegian press during the 1995-2006 period. We have also studied how the expectancy cycles of the Internet fluctuate over time within this period. The study supports two general conclusions: (1) the expectancy cycles for the Internet in the mass media fluctuate in a manner comparable with the stages of the innovation-decision process and; (2) the control position promotes individual, social, technological and institutional control, and is more prominent when the Internet is lower on the media agenda.

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Musliu, Vjosa, and Olga Burlyuk. "Imagining Ukraine: From History and Myths to Maidan Protests." East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures 33, no. 3 (January 23, 2019): 631–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325418821410.

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This article examines how the Maidan protests of 2013–2014 were a space for the collision of conflicting narratives on what Ukraine is and what it should be, and how past, present, and future were used to imagine contemporary Ukraine. Making use of speech acts by local and international actors and politicians on the Ukraine crisis, historical narratives on Ukraine, Maidan protest slogans, and field work data gathered throughout 2013–2016 in Ukraine, we identify four meta-narratives that enable us to unravel such an imagining: (1) Ukraine as a liminal category between East and West; (2) Ukraine as Russia, Ukraine as non-Russia; (3) Ukraine as Europe, Ukraine as non-Europe; and (4) Ukraine as Ukraine. We trace and contextualize these narratives in four separate sections. Positing all narratives in a discursive battleground and problematizing them as a struggle between stories, the article demonstrates that the imagining of contemporary Ukraine is deeply conditioned by the conflict between all four narratives. Ukraine is simultaneously all and none of them.

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Ingram, Alan. "Global Leadership and Global Health: Contending Meta-narratives, Divergent Responses, Fatal Consequences." International Relations 19, no. 4 (December 2005): 381–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047117805058530.

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McCoy, Alexandra, Amy Rauer, and Allen Sabey. "The Meta Marriage: Links Between Older Couples' Relationship Narratives and Marital Satisfaction." Family Process 56, no. 4 (May 11, 2016): 900–914. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/famp.12217.

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Baixauli, Inmaculada, Carla Colomer, Belén Roselló, and Ana Miranda. "Narratives of children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder: A meta-analysis." Research in Developmental Disabilities 59 (December 2016): 234–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2016.09.007.

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Batt, Sharon. "Limits on Autonomy: Political Meta-Narratives and Health Stories in the Media." American Journal of Bioethics 7, no. 8 (August 7, 2007): 23–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15265160701462335.

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Davidov, Veronica. "‘Pedagogical’ and Ethnographic Fictions and Meta-narratives of Development:1 World Manga." Journal of Development Studies 49, no. 3 (March 2013): 398–411. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2012.724169.

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Stephens, David. "RECONCEPTUALISING THE ROLE OF NARRATIVE IN EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA: LESSONS FROM THE FIELD." International Journal of Educational Development in Africa 1, no. 1 (October 14, 2014): 19–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2312-3540/3.

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There has been a major â€˜turnâ€™ towards narrative, biographical and life history approaches in theÂ academy over the last 30 years. But whereas some significant narrative research has been carriedÂ out in the West, such approaches are in their infancy on the African continent. This article exploresÂ narrative at three levels from the influence of Western meta narratives to the national and moreÂ personal narratives of teachers and students. Drawing on two periods of narrative field work inÂ Ghana and South Africa, the article concludes with a discussion of three important lessons to beÂ learnt from the field: that the relationship between â€˜grandâ€™ hegemonic narratives and individualÂ life histories needs to be re-thought; that context and culture provide the hermeneutic â€˜glueâ€™ thatÂ provides meaning to the field narratives; and that narrative research can provide alternativeÂ sources of evidence for policymakers.

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Suna, Laura. "Negotiating Belonging as Cultural Proximity in the Process of Adapting Global Reality TV Formats." Media and Communication 6, no. 3 (September 11, 2018): 30–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v6i3.1502.

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This article focuses on aspects of belonging the producers of reality TV programmes address in the staging of emotions. Based on interview statements by 12 experts from the field of national and international reality TV format production, we argue as follows: on the one hand, producers in reality TV shows address belonging as a perceived cultural proximity to trans-local meta-narratives of a longing for change, romantic love, competition and victory. The producers associate these trans-local meta-narratives with allegedly universal emotions. On the other hand, the producers address belonging as a perceived cultural proximity to local cultural discourses on beauty ideals and combine these with a specific local cultural performance of emotions. The results show that an emotional repertoire is developed and negotiated in the adaptation process of trans-local formats. It refers to universalistic understanding of emotional display and negotiates specific “feeling rules” accordingly.

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Mershon, Carol, and Olga Shvetsova. "Traditional authority and bargaining for legitimacy in dual legitimacy systems." Journal of Modern African Studies 57, no. 2 (June 2019): 273–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x19000065.

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ABSTRACTThis paper investigates the quest for legitimacy conducted by hereditary, traditional leaders in dual legitimacy systems. We theorise that traditional leaders engage in meta-constitutional bargaining, i.e. bargaining among constitutionally and traditionally defined actors within the meta-constitutional space. This process resembles constitutional bargaining in federations over the institutional balance between the members and centre, and among members. We thus propose a parallel between the theory of federal bargaining, on the one hand, and, on the other, the process of institutional balancing between agents in constitutional and traditional authority structures in dual legitimacy systems. Evidence from narratives of institutional balancing between constitutional and traditional authorities in Southern Africa suggests that actors’ strategies in dual legitimacy systems accord with the framework here. The narratives also disclose that both constitutional and traditional authorities rely on the state's courts for adjudication. The paper enriches social science scholarship on traditional authority, political economy and federalism.

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Mouw, Richard J. "Of pagan festivals and meta-narratives: Recovering the awareness of our shared humanness." Scottish Journal of Theology 70, no. 3 (August 2017): 251–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930617000278.

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AbstractThe notion of human commonness was a key interest of the nineteenth-century theologian-statesman Abraham Kuyper. As an orthodox Calvinist, Kuyper accepted the division of humankind into the categories of ‘elect’ and ‘non-elect’, but he was also convinced that this way of classifying human beings failed to account for the positive contributions of non-Christians. As a political leader, Kuyper was also concerned to enlist his fellow Calvinists in the quest for justice in the larger society and specifically focused on the ways in which Christian worship can nurture a sense of shared humanness that extends beyond the walls of the church. In our contemporary setting, where our loss of an emphasis on a shared humanness is becoming widespread, Kuyper's effort to ground human solidarity in the practices of worship has much to commend it.

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Hooper, Anna, Danielle De Boos, Roshan das Nair, and Nima Moghaddam. "First-person narratives around sexuality in residential healthcare settings: a meta-ethnographic synthesis." Sexual and Relationship Therapy 31, no. 2 (January 7, 2016): 207–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14681994.2015.1131256.

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Alkon, Alison Hope, and Michael Traugot. "Place Matters, But How? Rural Identity, Environmental Decision Making, and the Social Construction of Place." City & Community 7, no. 2 (June 2008): 97–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2008.00248.x.

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This article investigates the relationship between environmental policy and the social construction of place in two neighboring California counties. We examine two counties with dramatic geographic and sociodemographic differences that drew on similar place narratives in order to justify collaborative solutions to agricultural–environmental conflicts. Each narrative trumpets the importance of agriculture to each county's place character and praises the ability of well–intentioned county residents to work together. Our cases illuminate two processes through which place is socially constructed with regard to extralocal factors: place comparison allows residents to highlight potential risks by contrasting their own places with others while place meta–narratives allow actors to draw on culturally available notions of types of places. We conclude by discussing the relationship between place narratives and other factors that can affect policy choice, and therefore, shape the landscape itself.

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Bánkuty-Balogh, Lilla Sarolta. "Novel technologies and Geopolitical Strategies: Disinformation Narratives in the Countries of the Visegrád Group." Politics in Central Europe 17, no. 2 (July 27, 2021): 165–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pce-2021-0008.

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Abstract In the current media environment of growing information disorder and social media platforms emerging as primary news sources, the creation and spread of disinformation is becoming increasingly easy and cost-effective. The projection of strategic narratives through disinformation campaigns is an important geopolitical tool in the global competition for power and status. We have analysed close to 1,000 individual news pieces from more than 60 different online sources containing disinformation, which originally appeared in one of the V4 languages, using a natural language processing algorithm. We have assessed the frequency of recurring themes within the articles and their relationship structure, to see whether consistent disinformation narratives were to be found among them. Through frequency analysis and relationship charting, we have been able to uncover individual storylines connected to more than ten overarching disinformation narratives. We have also exposed five key meta-narratives present in all Visegrád Countries, which fed into a coherent system of beliefs, such as the envisioned collapse of the European Union or the establishment of a system of Neo-Atlantism, which would permanently divide the continent.

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Vasan, Sudha. "The Environment as a Meta-narrative: Introduction to a Special Issue." Journal of Developing Societies 37, no. 2 (April 23, 2021): 143–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0169796x211001226.

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Narratives about protecting, speaking/acting for the environment are ubiquitous in a wide variety of heterogenous social situations. The essays in this special issue examine the form, content, context and materiality of the discourse of environmental protection. Based on field studies in India, the essays each examine the discourses in and of the courtroom, logic of state bureaucracy, legitimating frames of neoliberal urban policy, regional development narratives and subjectivities developed in indigenous social movements against land acquisition. In each of these contexts the environment is invoked, sometimes in strategic or even instrumental ways; in others, a green discourse is normative, even constitutive of subjectivities of the people involved. It is shaped by material relations in each specific context. The malleability of form and content of the environmental narrative encourages its appropriation in multiple registers and allows meaningful expression of diverse material contestations through it. It is in this diversity of appropriation that we suggest that the environment is a meta-narrative of our times.

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Hussein, Nazia, Saba Hussain, Nazia Hussein, and Saba Hussein. "Interrogating Practices of Gender, Religion and Nationalism in the Representation of Muslim Women in Bollywood: Contexts of Change, Sites of Continuity." Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal 2, no. 2 (April 8, 2015): 284–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v2i2.117.

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Through a discourse analysis of four commercially successful Bollywood films between 2012-2013, this paper investigates Bollywood’s role in creation of hierarchical identities in the Indian society wherein Muslims occupy the position of the inferior ‘other’ to the superior Hindu ‘self’. Focusing on Muslim heroines, the paper demonstrates that the selected narratives attempt to move away from the older binary identity narratives of Muslim women such as nation vs. religion and hyper-sexualised courtesan vs. subservient veiled women, towards identity narratives borne out of Muslim women’s choice of education, career and life partner, political participation, and embodied practices. However, in comparison to signs of change the sites of continuity are strongly embedded in the religious-nationalistic meta-narrative that drives the paradigms of Indian femininity/ womanhood. To conclude, the nature of the recent deployment of Muslim heroines in Bollywood reinforce the hierarchy between the genders (male-female), between the communities (Hindu-Muslim) and between nations (India- Pakistan).

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Costa Ribas, Fernanda, and Cristiane Manzan Perine. "What does it mean to be an English teacher in Brazil? Student teachers’ beliefs through narratives in a distance education programme." Applied Linguistics Review 9, no. 2-3 (May 25, 2018): 273–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2017-0002.

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AbstractThis paper aims to investigate the beliefs of student teachers on a distance teacher education course about being an English teacher in Brazil. The theoretical framework of this paper is based on studies about beliefs in language teaching and learning (Barcelos and Kalaja 2011. Introduction to beliefs about SLA revisited. System 39(3). 281–289), and distant teacher education (Borg et al. 2014. The impact of teacher education on pre-service primary English language teachers. London: British Council). Data were collected in a supervised teaching practicum course in an English Language and Literature Distance Programme provided by a federal public university in Brazil. The data stem from visual narratives and meta-narratives posted on two online discussion forums. It is expected that the results of this study will contribute to advancing research on the use of visual materials in the investigation of beliefs, and that they will foster the debate on the contributions of visual narratives to teachers’ reflections, particularly in distance teacher education settings.

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Drennan, Lex. "FEMA’s fall and redemption—applied narrative analysis." Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal 27, no. 4 (August 6, 2018): 393–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/dpm-07-2017-0163.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to recover the narratives constructed by the disaster management policy network in Washington, DC, about the management of Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy. Recovering and analysing these narratives provides an opportunity to understand the stories constructed about these events and consider the implications of this framing for post-event learning and adaptation of government policy. Design/methodology/approach This research was conducted through an extended ethnographic study in Washington, DC, that incorporated field observation, qualitative interviews and desktop research. Findings The meta-narratives recovered through this research point to a collective tendency to fit the experiences of Hurricane Katrina and Sandy into a neatly constructed redemption arc. This narrative framing poses significant risk to policy learning and highlights the importance of exploring counter-narratives as part of the policy analysis process. Research limitations/implications The narratives in this paper reflect the stories and beliefs of the participants interviewed. As such, it is inherently subjective and should not be generalised. Nonetheless, it is illustrative of how narrative framing can obscure important learnings from disasters. Originality/value The paper represents a valuable addition to the field of disaster management policy analysis. It extends the tools of narrative analysis and administrative ethnography into the disaster management policy domain and demonstrates how these techniques can be used to analyse complex historical events.

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Leonard, Garry. "Tears of Joy: Hollywood Melodrama, Ecstasy, and Restoring Meta-Narratives of Transcendence in Modernity." University of Toronto Quarterly 79, no. 2 (April 2010): 819–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/utq.79.2.819.

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Soundy, Andrew, Brett Smith, Helen Dawes, Hardev Pall, Katrina Gimbrere, and Jill Ramsay. "Patient's expression of hope and illness narratives in three neurological conditions: a meta-ethnography." Health Psychology Review 7, no. 2 (April 8, 2011): 177–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17437199.2011.568856.

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Shahin, Saif. "Mediated modernities: (Meta)narratives of modern nationhood in Indian and Pakistani media, 1947–2007." Global Media and Communication 11, no. 2 (July 29, 2015): 147–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1742766515588417.

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Sukhera, Javeed, Michael Wodzinski, Maham Rehman, and Cristina M. Gonzalez. "The Implicit Association Test in health professions education: A meta-narrative review." Perspectives on Medical Education 8, no. 5 (September 18, 2019): 267–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40037-019-00533-8.

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Abstract Introduction Implicit bias is a growing area of interest among educators. Educational strategies used to elicit awareness of implicit biases commonly include the Implicit Association Test (IAT). Although the topic of implicit bias is gaining increased attention, emerging critique of the IAT suggests the need to subject its use to greater theoretical and empirical scrutiny. Methods The authors employed a meta-narrative synthesis to review existing research on the use of the IAT in health professions education. Four databases were searched using key terms yielding 1151 titles. After title, abstract and full-text screening, 38 articles were chosen for inclusion. Coding and analysis of articles sought a meaningful synthesis of educational approaches relating to the IAT, and the assumptions and theoretical positions that informed these approaches. Results Distinct, yet complementary, meta-narratives were found in the literature. The dominant perspective utilizes the IAT as a metric of implicit bias to evaluate the success of an educational activity. A contrasting narrative describes the IAT as a tool to promote awareness while triggering discussion and reflection. Discussion Whether used as a tool to measure bias, raise awareness or trigger reflection, the use of the IAT provokes tension between distinct meta-narratives, posing a challenge to educators. Curriculum designers should consider the premise behind the IAT before using it, and be prepared to address potential reactions from learners such as defensiveness or criticism. Overall, findings suggest that educational approaches regarding implicit bias require critical reflexivity regarding assumptions, values and theoretical positioning related to the IAT.

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Day, Giskin, Glenn Robert, and Anne Marie Rafferty. "Gratitude in Health Care: A Meta-narrative Review." Qualitative Health Research 30, no. 14 (September 13, 2020): 2303–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732320951145.

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Research into gratitude as a significant sociological and psychological phenomenon has proliferated in the past two decades. However, there is little consensus on how it should be conceptualized or investigated empirically. We present a meta-narrative review that focuses on gratitude in health care, with an emphasis on research exploring interpersonal experiences in the context of care provision. Six meta-narratives from literatures across the humanities, sciences, and medicine are identified, contextualized, and discussed: gratitude as social capital; gifts; care ethics; benefits of gratitude; gratitude and staff well-being; and gratitude as an indicator of quality of care. Meta-narrative review was a valuable framework for making sense of theoretical antecedents and findings in this developing area of research. We conclude that greater attention needs to be given to what constitutes “evidence” in gratitude research and call for qualitative studies to better understand and shape the role and implications of gratitude in health care.

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Clifford, Rebecca. "Emotions and gender in oral history: narrating Italy's 1968." Modern Italy 17, no. 2 (May 2012): 209–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13532944.2012.665284.

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The year 1968 was and remains an emotion-laden topic in Italy, and yet few historians have used emotions to parse the history and memory of this period. This paper draws on a collection of interviews with former activists in the student movement and the New Left to explore the ways in which expressions of feeling in life-history narratives can flag up possible lines of difference in women's and men's stories. It draws on three emotive themes – rebellion, violence and liberation – to explore the interaction between gender, feeling, narrative, and what the author calls the ‘third person in the room’: meta-narratives of 1960s activism that can exert a powerful weight on the interview, blending and blurring the lines of individual and collective experience.

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Holdo, Markus, and Lizzie Öhrn Sagrelius. "Why Inequalities Persist in Public Deliberation: Five Mechanisms of Marginalization." Political Studies 68, no. 3 (August 21, 2019): 634–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0032321719868707.

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Previous research has suggested that reflective “meta-deliberation,” or discussions about how discussions proceed, can help to address patterns of marginalization. This article suggests, however, that moving to a meta level is not in itself a solution, since it may easily bring along such patterns. Inequalities persist through specific mechanisms that may be present in both ordinary deliberation and meta-deliberation. We explore such mechanisms empirically, by focusing on experiences of people that were excluded from discussions to which they were uniquely qualified to contribute. Our case is the 2013 Stockholm riots, and our interviewees are people who live, work, and engage in local civil society groups in the affected neighborhoods. These interviews helped us identify five mechanisms that affect a society’s capacity for reflective uptake in both ordinary deliberation and meta-deliberation: (1) imposition of preexisting narratives, (2) inclusion of locally dominant actors, (3) discursive distancing, (4), reliance on social markers, and (5) paternalistic conflict avoidance.

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Hijjo, Nael F. M., Surinderpal Kaur, and Kais Amir Kadhim. "Reframing the Arabic Narratives on Daesh in the English Media: The Ideological Impact." Open Linguistics 5, no. 1 (April 20, 2019): 81–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0005.

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AbstractThis paper discusses the dynamic role of translators in possibly promoting certain ideologies and political agendas by presenting stories through the lens of an ideologically laden meta-narrative. It compares the representation of ‘Daesh’ in the narratives of Arabic editorials and their English translations published by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). MEMRI is a pro-Israeli organization, widely cited by leading Western media outlets, especially in the US. The study adopts the narrative theoryinformed analysis of Baker (2006) as its theoretical framework to examine how narrative is used to legitimize, normalize, and justify certain actions to the public. The findings suggest that through translation, MEMRI draws upon the meta-narrative of the War on Terror in furthering its ideologically laden agenda of terrorist Arabs and Muslims by publishing selective and decontextualized excerpts and mistranslation of concepts such as Daesh (داعش), Jihad (جهاد), and Jizya (جزية).

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Foster, Jennifer, and W. Hagedorn. "A Qualitative Exploration of Fear and Safety with Child Victims of Sexual Abuse." Journal of Mental Health Counseling 36, no. 3 (July 1, 2014): 243–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.17744/mehc.36.3.0160307501879217.

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Although child sexual abuse (CSA) is a pervasive societal problem that is estimated to affect 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys before the age of 18 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2005), little is known about CSA from the perspective of the victims themselves. To address this gap in the research, this study used a narrative approach to explore children's perceptions of their abuse experiences. Analysis of 21 narratives written during Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy revealed a meta-theme, which was entitled Fear and Safety. Children's descriptions of past and current fears and concerns about their safety and the safety of others were evident in all 21 narratives. The article delineates counseling interventions that mental health counselors can use to target fear and enhance safety.

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O'Brien, Patrick Karl. "The Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Reconfiguration of the British Industrial Revolution as a Conjuncture in Global History." Itinerario 24, no. 3-4 (November 2000): 117–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115300014534.

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All historical research, however micro and focussed can be represented as part of a process of ‘reconfiguration’ Research is simply the crafts dominant and traditional activity of transforming archival evidence into printed narratives which validate, qualify and occasionally demolish dominant meta-narratives. Most historians continue to be engaged in Von Ranke's grand project for construction of history by making different, more durable and better quality bricks that are piled up awaiting to be used as more modern architecture for national histories. They agree as a point of discipline (if not belief) that this remains the best way to proceed. Some (as Randolph Churchill remarked of Gladstone) are ‘old men in a hurry’ and opting.to proceed from the top down by relocating national histories within the wider spaces, larger chronologies and cosmopolitan concerns of global history.

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Parry, Sarah, and Stephen Weatherhead. "A critical review of qualitative research into the experiences of young adults leaving foster care services." Journal of Children's Services 9, no. 4 (December 9, 2014): 263–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcs-04-2014-0022.

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Purpose – Due to the emergence of rich personal narratives within recent research, the purpose of this paper is to review and to explore the experience of transition from care and consider how these accounts can inform care services. Design/methodology/approach – This meta-synthesis follows from several quantitative and mixed method reviews examining how young people experience aging out of the care system. Findings – Three themes emerged from an inductive analysis: navigation and resilience – an interrelated process; the psychological impact of survival; and complex relationship. Research limitations/implications – The findings of a meta-synthesis should not be over generalised and are at least partially influenced by the author's epistemological assumptions (Dixon-Woods et al., 2006). However, a synthesis of this topic has the potential to provide greater insight into how transition can be experienced through the reconceptualising of the personal experiences across the studies reviewed (Erwin et al., 2011). Practical implications – This synthesis discusses the themes; their relationship to existing research and policies, and suggestions for further exploration. The experience of transition is considered critically in terms of its often traumatic nature for the young person aging out of care but also the ways in which the experience itself can build essential resiliencies. Social implications – Reflections for clinical practice are discussed with importance placed upon systemic working, accommodating likely challenges and considering appropriate therapeutic approaches for the client group and their systems. Originality/value – No review thus far has qualitatively examined the narratives told by the young people emerging from care and how these narratives have been interpreted by the researchers who sought them (Hyde and Kammerer, 2009).

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Mäkinen, Sirke. "Russia — a leading or a fading power? Students’ geopolitical meta-narratives on Russia's role in the post-Soviet space." Nationalities Papers 44, no. 1 (January 2016): 92–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2015.1074994.

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This article explores the construction of Russia's role in the post-Soviet space on the popular level of geopolitical culture. This empirical study is based on an interpretative analysis of open-ended survey responses of International Relations and Political Science students in Russian universities. The purpose of the article is twofold: first, to introduce the two main geopolitical meta-narratives constructed from students’ responses, Russia as a leading power and Russia as a fading power; and second, to show how they resonate with the broader discursive field on Russian identity and policies in the post-Soviet space. I argue that the two meta-narratives tell us about both support and challenges posed against the elite level of geopolitical culture, and Russia's foreign policy in the post-Soviet space. They also show variation on how Russia's role is represented, as well as on the goals which Russia should have vis-à-vis this space. The ideal role of Russia would be that of integration leader, but students disagree on whether this is the actual role now, or whether this can ever be attained. Moreover, not all would even agree with aspiring for this role; instead, Russia should re-orientate its foreign policy as well as domestic policy.

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Naumovic, Slobodan. "The social origins and political uses of popular narratives on Serbian disunity." Filozofija i drustvo, no. 26 (2005): 65–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fid0526065n.

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The text offers an examination of socio-political bases, modes of functioning, and of the consequences of political instrumentalisation of popular narratives on Serbian disunity. The first section of the paper deals with what is being expressed and what is being done socially when narratives on Serbian disunity are invoked in everyday discourses. The next section investigates what political actor sty, by publicly replicating them, or by basing their speeches on key words of those narratives. The narratives on Serbian disunity are then related to their historical and social contexts, and to various forms of identity politics with which they share common traits. The nineteenth century wars over political and cultural identity, intensified by the struggle between contesting claims to political authority, further channeled by the development of party politics in Serbia and radicalized by conflicts of interest and ideology together provided the initial reasons for the apparition of modern discourses on Serbian disunity and disaccord. Next, addressed are the uninnally solidifying or misinterpreting really existing social problems (in the case of some popular narratives on disunity), or because of intentionally exploiting popular perceptions of such problems (in the case of most political meta-narratives), the constructive potential related to existing social conflicts and splits can be completely wasted. What results is a deep feeling of frustration, and the diminishing of popular trust in the political elites and the political process in general. The contemporary hyperproduction of narratives on disunity and disaccord in Serbia seems to be directly related to the incapacity of the party system, and of the political system in general, to responsibly address, and eventually resolve historical and contemporary clashes of interest and identity-splits. If this vicious circle in which the consequences of social realities are turned into their causes is to be prevented, conflicts of interest must be discursively disassociated from ideological conflicts, as well as from identity-based conflicts, and all of them have to be disentangled from popular narratives on splits and disunity. Most important of all, the practice of political instrumentalisation of popular narratives on disunity and disaccord has to be gradually abandoned.

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