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Roundy, Philip T. "On Entrepreneurial Stories: Tolkien’s Theory of Fantasy and the Bridge between Imagination and Innovation." Business Perspectives and Research 9, no. 1 (June 3, 2020): 31–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2278533720923464.
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Innovations are the product of entrepreneurs’ imaginations. To turn imaginations into realized innovations, entrepreneurs must attract the resources necessary to create the innovations they envision. Resource acquisition involves crafting and communicating compelling narratives that persuade stakeholders to provide resources. However, there is not a clearly articulated theory linking entrepreneurial imagination, narratives, and the production of innovations. To construct such a theory, this paper extends work on narratives in literary theory and, specifically, Tolkien’s theory of narrative fantasy. It is proposed that entrepreneurs’ narratives about innovations are, initially, “fantasies” because they describe possible worlds in which the imagined innovations exist. As fantasies, the characteristics of persuasive fantasy narratives, such as the degree to which narratives achieve an inner consistency of reality and suspend audiences’ disbelief, influence entrepreneurs’ ability to convince stakeholders about the viability of imagined innovations. The proposed theory contributes to entrepreneurship scholarship by developing a process model that articulates how entrepreneurs’ imaginations manifest in their narratives, which, in turn, influence the realization of innovations. The theory generates concrete implications for entrepreneurs and suggests that as the novelty of an imagined innovation increases, it becomes more critical for entrepreneurs to construct compelling narratives to describe the innovation. Thus, entrepreneurs and scholars should be attentive to the role narratives play in moving beyond the idea phase of entrepreneurship and bridging imagination and innovation.
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Gordon, Ross, Joseph Ciorciari, and Tom van Laer. "Using EEG to examine the role of attention, working memory, emotion, and imagination in narrative transportation." European Journal of Marketing 52, no. 1/2 (February 12, 2018): 92–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ejm-12-2016-0881.
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Purpose This paper aims to present a study using encephalography (EEG) to investigate consumer responses to narrative videos in energy efficiency social marketing. The purpose is to assess the role of attention, working memory, emotion and imagination in narrative transportation, and how these stages of narrative transportation are ordered temporally. Design/methodology/approach Consumers took part in an EEG experiment during which they were shown four different narrative videos to identify brain response during specific video segments. Findings The study found that during the opening segment of the videos, attention, working memory and emotion were high before attenuating with some introspection at the end of this segment. During the story segment of the videos attention, working memory and emotion were also high, with attention decreasing later on but working memory, emotion and imagination being evident. Consumer responses to each of the four videos differed. Practical implications The study suggests that narratives can be a useful approach in energy efficiency social marketing. Specifically, marketers should attempt to gain focused attention and invoke emotional responses, working memory and imagination to help consumers become narratively transported. The fit between story object and story-receiver should also be considered when creating consumer narratives. Social implications Policymakers and organisations that wish to promote pro-social behaviours such as using energy efficiently or eating healthily should consider using narratives. Originality/value This research contributes to theory by identifying brain response relating to attention, working memory, emotion and imagination during specific stages of narrative transportation. The study considers the role of attention, emotion, working memory and imagination during reception of stories with different objects, and how these may relate to consumers’ narrative transportation.
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Gabriel, Yiannis. "Case Studies as Narratives: Reflections Prompted by the Case of Victor, the Wild Child of Aveyron." Journal of Management Inquiry 28, no. 4 (June 21, 2017): 403–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1056492617715522.
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Drawing on a celebrated case study of a feral child in France, the author argues that there are similarities between stories and case studies as types of narrative and that they are both capable of acting as insightful tools of management inquiry. Both case studies and stories call for narrative imagination to develop meaningful narratives. Serendipity, the accidental discovery of meaning or purpose in what seems random and purposeless, is an important part of narrative imagination. As meaningful narratives, both case studies and stories follow a structure of interwoven actions and events with beginnings, middles, and ends. However, where storytellers enjoy poetic license to distort facts for effect, case study researchers are more constrained by factual accuracy. The beginnings and ends of case studies are not as clearly defined as those of stories and fictional narratives.
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Orgad, Shani. "The Sociological Imagination and Media Studies in Neoliberal Times." Television & New Media 21, no. 6 (July 26, 2020): 635–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527476420919687.
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To date, media and communication studies have mostly examined narratives either as stories that circulate in public discourse or as people’s personal narratives. In the context of deepening inequalities, the cementing of neoliberal rationality and the intensifying centrality of media and communication technologies in public and everyday life, connecting the two realms is a vital task. Drawing on The Sociological Imagination, I argue for and demonstrate the value of connecting what C. Wright Mills famously called “personal troubles” and “public issues of social structure” in the study of current media and narrative. Analysis of how contemporary cultural narratives furnish and condition our most intimate personal troubles highlights that our lives are shaped by social forces not of our own making. Yet, the intersection between media and cultural discourses and individuals’ sense-making of their experiences can open up possibilities for change and even resistance.
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Acero-Ferrer, Héctor A. "Imagining Borders, Imagining Relationships." Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society 5, no. 2 (January 21, 2020): 447–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/23642807-00502008.
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Abstract Conceptualizations of human borders will often refer to narratives of encounters, exchanges, and/or interactions that take place in two different but interrelated settings: one internal, between individuals or groups belonging to the space defined by the border; and one external, between such individuals or collectives and everything that is foreign to them. This integrating/distinguishing role of narratives underscores the imaginative process through which borders emerge, expressed with great poignancy in the fluidity and complexity of border-setting practices in late-modern societies. Paul Ricœur’s take on collective imagination and human action can be a tool to unearth some of the key conceptual features of such integration-distinction tension, by pointing to ways in which social imaginaries shape the liquidity and modality of borders in increasingly diverse communities. Ricœur’s analysis of the development of cultural imaginaries through the opposed yet complementary forces of ideology and utopia, and his exploration of the multi-layered character of mutual recognition, come together in an understanding of human persons – and communities – capable of imagining enlarged spaces of recognition. Richard Kearney complements this analysis with an account of narrative imagination that allows one to articulate the narrative origins of concrete human realities and practices, such as borders and border-setting. In this article, I make use of the contributions of Ricœur and Kearney to argue that a clear understanding social imagination is needed in order to account for the cultural matrix set by human borders, as well as to provide answers to the practical questions raised by concrete historical examples of borders and border-setting.
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Smyczyńska, Katarzyna. "A door to the unknown: crossing boundaries through picturebook art." Problemy Wczesnej Edukacji 34, no. 3 (September 30, 2016): 69–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0009.4844.
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This paper engages with the question of the ethical implications of, and artistic imagination in picturebooks. The analysis relies on two visual narratives confronting the theme of cultural difference. The juxtaposition of the two books that share the themes of visiting and hosting, of confronting otherness, and of cultural prejudice indicates differences in their narrative and artistic potential. The analysis of formal strategies in Jemmy Button by Jennifer Uman and Valerio Vidali and in Eric by Shaun Tan serves to point out the role of artistic imagination and narrative wisdom in creating visual literature.
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Sanford, A. Whitney. "Transforming Agricultural Practice: Hindu Narrative and the Moral Imagination." Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 15, no. 1 (2011): 88–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853511x553778.
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AbstractThe environmental degradation and social dislocations caused by industrial agriculture have created an urgency to rethink food production and consumption. The proliferation of farmers markets is one example of the public response to perceived problems with the existing food system, however the bewildering array of food choices suggest a need for new guidelines for food and agriculture. This paper asks how expanding the moral imagination through narrative can help us rethink human behavior in the context of agricultural practice. Agriculture is an inherently relational, and rethinking practice means revisiting metaphors and narratives that guide behavior in the biotic community. I use a Hindu agricultural narrative to think through existing practices and the narratives contexts. This story does not romanticize human relations with nature, but instead reflects power dynamics in human (and particularly gendered) relationships, and, more important, in human interactions in the biotic community. My analysis considers relevant tropes and themes, e.g. citizenship and community, so that we can ask "what stories about agriculture do we tell ourselves?" and "what stories might we be telling?" to address the current agrarian crises.
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Fenster, Mark. "A failure of imagination: Competing narratives of 9/11 truth." Diogenes 62, no. 3-4 (November 2015): 121–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0392192116669270.
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This essay describes the emergence of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon as an object of conspiratorial intrigue and imagination, offering a snapshot of the “9/11 truth movement” and its various theories as they began to reach full bloom. Theories about the attacks have come to constitute the dominant conspiratorial present – a present that looks remarkably like the mid- and late-twentieth-century past, despite significant changes in information technology and the continuing institutionalization and ironization of conspiracy theory as an influential form of popular politics. In addition to the 9/11 conspiracy community, the essay considers the battle over the 9/11 Commission’s review of the government’s failure to anticipate the terrorist attacks. The Commission engaged in knowing and savvy efforts to respond to conspiracy theories and to preempt popular belief in them, offering an authoritative narrative (or, more precisely, set of narratives) to explain what occurred. Meanwhile, the 9/11 truth movement made equally knowing and savvy efforts to critique the official account, responding with its own efforts to reinterpret and re-narrate the attacks, their causes, and what they signify about the contemporary world. While the 9/11 Commission may have criticized the federal government and its intelligence services for their failures of imagination prior to the attacks, the truth movement criticized the Commission either for a failure of imagination – an explanation for the attacks that could see through the “official” account – or for a quite imaginative cover-up of the hidden truths of 9/11. By considering the clash between official authorities and an active conspiracy community, this essay considers how the movement attempted to form a collective political and scholarly community, producing a blizzard of texts offering narratives that compete with the ones told by the Commission that seek the impossible grail of conspiracy theory: the truth. The essay also considers the effects, if any, of the state’s attempt to preempt and respond to conspiracy theories.
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Beer, David, and Ruth Penfold-Mounce. "Celebrity Gossip and the New Melodramatic Imagination." Sociological Research Online 14, no. 2 (March 2009): 48–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.1878.
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This article uses a range of media sources to ‘follow’ or ‘trace’ the well-known celebrity Miley Cyrus. Through the development of the concept of a new melodramatic imagination the case study develops the methodological potentials of the types of online archives that now exist. In this instance the authors exercise their own melodramatic imaginations to draw out substantive issues relevant to the case of Miley Cyrus. The article therefore has two aims, the first is the exploration of a particular approach toward understanding transformations in popular culture, and the second is to draw out the types of ‘grammar of conduct’ that face those who assemble the information about celebrities into consumable narratives. The piece considers how people, in what has been called the Web 2.0 context, assemble melodramatic narratives amongst celebrity gossip that might then shape everyday experiences, understandings and practices.
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Roca, Beltran, Eva Bermúdez-Figueroa, and Francisco Estepa-Maestre. "Life story as a tool for teaching sociological imagination." Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education 12, no. 5 (October 22, 2019): 829–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jarhe-06-2019-0158.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential of life story for the teaching of sociology to Social Work students. It contains the results of a teaching experiment in higher education which aims to foster sociological imagination among students. Design/methodology/approach The study employs a mixed methodology. The quantitative data came from a survey handed out to the students with closed and open questions. The qualitative information came from the contents of class exercises in which the students had to connect the theoretical contents of the course of sociology with the biographical narratives of different research subjects. Findings The results reflect student satisfaction or appreciation regarding the use of the life story as a teaching resource, as well as a successful acquisition of sociological skills and knowledge, such as critical thinking, micro-macro connection and the interplay between structure and agency. Practical implications Life story and narrative methods should be employed in post-secondary education as teaching instruments. Originality/value The study contributes to expand the reflection on narrative techniques as a pedagogical tool. The paper provides several examples of class exercises with biographical narratives that have demonstrated to be successful for teaching sociology in higher education.
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Leichter, David J. "Communication Breakdown." Social Philosophy Today 35 (2019): 59–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/socphiltoday201981263.
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The turn to narrative in biomedicine has been one of the most important alternatives to traditional approaches to bioethics. Rather than using ethical theories and principles to guide behavior, narrative ethics uses the moral imagination to cultivate and expand one’s capacities for empathy. This paper argues that by themselves narratives do not, and cannot, fully capture the range of the illness experience. But more than that, the emphasis on narrative often obscures how dominant forms of narrative discourse often operate to marginalize those whose narratives fall outside the parameters of traditional narrative forms or whose stories are occluded by structural violence and oppression. Rather, by focusing on forms of embodiment that are irreducible to narrative discursivity, this paper highlights forms of selfhood that exist outside of the narrative self.
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Thomson Salo, Frances. "Book Review: The Fertile Imagination: Narratives of Reproduction." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 38, no. 5 (May 2004): 384–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/j.1440-1614.2004.01368.x.
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Sheridan, Daniel P. "Maternal Affection for a Divine Son: A Spirituality of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa." Horizons 16, no. 1 (1989): 65–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s036096690003989x.
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AbstractLove for God as an actual concrete activity of a human being is sometimes obscured in contemporary American Christian culture. This essay studies the role of maternal affection for the divine child Kṛṣṇa, humanly embodied as a male child, in order to serve as a cross-cultural catalyst for the traditions of Christian love for Christ. The focus is the tenth-century Hindu Vaiṣṇava text, the Bhāgavata Purāṇa. Vaiṣṇavas promote the experience of loving God through imaginative participation in narratives of Kṛṣṇa's loves and by identification with human women who loved him, particularly his mothers. They are the exemplars of a maternal love for a divine child. This imaginative participation and identification is open to both men and women. This study illustrates the roles of gender, narrative, and imagination in the experience of loving God with one's whole heart, soul, and might.
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Honeck, Thomas. "A touch of post-truth: the roles of narratives in urban policy mobilities." Geographica Helvetica 73, no. 2 (April 4, 2018): 133–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-133-2018.
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Abstract. This paper characterizes different types of policy narratives that influence the trans-local motion of urban policies and elaborates on their relations. The paper first introduces conceptual and methodological recommendations from policy narrative literature to debates on policy mobility. In an empirical section, it then analyzes narratives that support policies on temporary use of vacant lands and buildings in the German cities of Berlin and Stuttgart. Based on semi-structured interviews with experts and document reviews, the paper finds different, partly competing narratives on temporary use in both case study cities. It identifies their typical elements, categorising them by form and content. Referential narratives are understood as connecters between different cities and influencers of policy mobility. Finally, the paper shows how narratives work with association as well as imagination and thus emphasize the non-factual, yet inherent aspects of relational policy making.
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Troscianko, Emily. "Kafkaesque worlds in real time." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 19, no. 2 (April 27, 2010): 151–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947010362913.
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We read in a linear fashion, page by page, and we seem also to experience the world around us thus, moment by moment. But research on visual perception shows that perceptual experience is not pictorially representational: it does not consist in a linear, cumulative, totalizing process of building up a stream of internal picture-like representations. Current enactive, or sensorimotor, theories describe vision and imagination as operating through interactive potentiality. Kafka’s texts, which evoke perception as non-pictorial, provide scope for investigating the close links between vision and imagination in the context of the reading of fiction. Kafka taps into the fundamental perceptual processes by which we experience external and imagined worlds, by evoking fictional worlds through the characters’ perceptual enaction of them. The temporality of Kafka’s narratives draws us in by making concessions to how we habitually create ‘proper’, linear narratives out of experience, as reflected in traditional Realist narratives. However, Kafka also unsettles these processes of narrativization, showing their inadequacies and superfluities. Kafka’s works engage the reader’s imagination so powerfully because they correspond to the truth of perceptual experience, rather than merely to the fictions we conventionally make of it. Yet these texts also unsettle because we are unused to thinking of the real world as being just how these truly realistic, Kafkaesque worlds are: inadmissible of a complete, linear narrative, because always emerging when looked for, just in time.
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McAllister, Brian J. "Narrative Disorientation and Beckett's Bureaucratic Space." Journal of Beckett Studies 29, no. 2 (September 2020): 161–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2020.0309.
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This essay investigates political implications of narrative space in Samuel Beckett's closed-space narratives, arguing for a narratological understanding of these spatial politics. It focuses on Imagination Dead Imagine, a text that radically disorients reader engagement with narrative space. In this text, Beckett collides bureaucratic narrative logic, which compartmentalises and accounts for all details of narrative space, against trenchantly anti-bureaucratic grammar, in which sentence structure disrupts and undermines spatial ordering. This dialectical relationship between bureaucratic narrative voice and unstable grammar critiques the logic that, in Giorgio Agamben's biopolitical sense, defines the bureaucratic nation-state. By associating narrative space and its inhabiting characters with the bureaucratic logic of modernity, Imagination Dead Imagine enacts and examines what Agamben calls the state of exception, inscribing politics onto the bare life of characters. While the text avoids direct reference to these historical conditions, its structure performs and resists the politics implicit in those conditions.
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Sheffield, Marcus L. "Melville's Puritan Imagination." Prospects 25 (October 2000): 69–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300000582.
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To a remarkable degree the literary works of Herman Melville (1819–91) have been read as subversive to traditional American religious aspirations. Some early reviewers, while praising the vivid recreations of the smell of salt air and the taste of hardtack, noted the blasphemy, perversion, and immoral elements they perceived in Melville's narratives of life among the peoples of Polynesia. Especially prominent for reviewers were Melville's literary assaults on Christian missionaries. Later, as his career progressed, he appeared to abandon the vivid for the mystifying and turned to regaling his readers with profundities, allegory, and metaphysics, or so the critics said. Melville's literary reputation glowed warmly for a short while, cooled, then died. As from the dead, the reputation was reborn in the 1920s.
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Tamawiwy, August Cornelis. "A FOUNDATION FOR A CULTURE OF JUSTPEACE: Church as a Hermeneutic Community to Promote Peace Narratives." MAHABBAH: Journal of Religion and Education 2, no. 1 (February 15, 2021): 61–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.47135/mahabbah.v2i1.3.
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This article argues that a culture of justpeace could be reached if the church as a hermeneutic community interprets all narratives in the light of promoting justpeace. Promoting good narratives will shape us to be peacemakers. By using the concept of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as a method, this article aims to invite people to engage conflict in a constructive way. This article aims discovers the role of justice, truth, and ecumenical-interreligious dialogue which play in the vision of a culture of justpeace. It also shows how the use of imagination is important in dreaming of a culture of justpeace. It invites us to see how narratives drive our imagination and design our character to make peace or violence.
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Katz, Louise. "Dangerous narratives: politics, lies, and ghost stories." Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 3, no. 1 (March 24, 2011): 20–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ccs.v3i1.1816.
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Narratives that resonate in the cultural imagination inform the ways in which we apprehend the world. This paper considers how certain images and stories that have been valorised over time, bleed into reality and become socially and politically affective. The identity of an entire people, for example, can be rendered down so that those social groups come to seem more spectral than human, through either misrecognition or a lack of acknowledgment. This idea will be discussed through two examples: one provided by traditional anti-Semitism, in which the Jew is viewed as a vampiristic agent of decay; and another in which the Arab presence becomes ‘spectralised’ in contemporary Israel/Palestine. We will look at the development of narratives that create these images, and also consider the liminal zone wherein those images have their source, because it is through imagination and storytelling that we continually create and recreate the realities we must then inhabit.
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Rindge, Matthew S. "Luke’s Artistic Parables: Narratives of Subversion, Imagination, and Transformation." Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 68, no. 4 (September 16, 2014): 403–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020964314540406.
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Castro, Gustavo, and Florence Dravet. "Time and chaos: the “imagination of possibilities” and the media." Comunicação e Sociedade 35 (June 28, 2019): 45–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.17231/comsoc.35(2019).3130.
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This article proposes a reflection about the notion of time and its relation to the media based on the complex thinking paradigm and the transdisciplinary perspective. Departing from reflections about literary and cinematographic narratives, our objective is to examine how the notion of time mediates the concept of comprehension of space/time as well as of the aesthetic perception of the world between order and chaos. We relied on the dialogue between science and narrative and on modern physics for concepts of time, order and chaos. Our conclusions point to three ideas: 1) the constant remembrance of catastrophe is an obsessive intimate theme which presents itself through an artistic and mediatic narrative; 2) the expression of catastrophic obsession partially satisfies the current humanity’s affection for horror and 3) the imaginary of catastrophe traverses time and space, being transdisciplinary.
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Gautreaux, Michelle, and Sandra Delgado. "Portrait of a Teach for All (TFA) teacher: Media narratives of the universal TFA teacher in 12 countries." education policy analysis archives 24 (October 24, 2016): 111. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.24.2149.
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This article employs narrative analysis to examine how the media in 12 different countries characterize the Teach for All (TFA) teacher. Examining mass media narratives in these 12 countries illustrates that there are some remarkable commonalities in the narratives and character portraits co-constructed and propagated by the media. At the core of these narratives is the notion of a problem in education. This problem justifies the creation and emergence of a character, commonly constructed in opposition to traditionally certified teachers, who embodies the characteristics and attributes of the contemporary neoliberal subject. This article discusses the implications of this character’s widespread representation; namely, how does the character construction influence the broader public perception about education and how is it contributing to the (re)imagination of the role of the teacher?
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Erhart, Walter. "Comparing Masculinities – True Grit (1968, 1969, 2010)." Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur 43, no. 2 (November 6, 2018): 440–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/iasl-2018-0023.
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Abstract By studying three different versions of an American Western narrative, the novel True Grit and its cinematographic adaptations, the essay starts with the plurality of masculinities embodied within the genre to outline the specific reference points, frames, and tertia comparationis that organize and structure these and other male narratives in the 20th and 21st century. While the narrative of True Grit is all about comparing men, each version centers upon a different concept these comparisons are directed toward: a nostalgic imagination of a noble masculine society gone by; a family narrative where men evolve as children, fathers, and potential husbands; a threatening masculinity representing the dark ‘other’ side of civilization. While taking a plurality of masculinities for granted, this essay aims to identify common frames and narratives of masculinities that allow for structuring the future field of comparative masculinity studies.
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Della Croce, Roberta, Benedetta Elmi, Chiara Fioretti, and Andrea Smorti. "Visit to an Unknown City: Exploring Children’s Fictional Narratives About a Tourist Experience." Open Psychology Journal 11, no. 1 (August 31, 2018): 148–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874350101811010148.
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Background:Children have an important role in the decision making process about travels. However, research about children in tourism is still lacking. Although scholars have investigated memories of trips, imagination and expectations on visiting new places that have not yet been explored.Objective:To explore children’s narratives about visiting an unknown city.Methods:Fifty-nine third grade 7-to-8-year-old children took part in the study. Children were asked to write a story on the visit to an unknown city starting from a given stem.Results:Two types of stories emerged from children’s narrations: likelihood and non-likelihood stories. The latter were characterized by the presence of complicating actions and resolutions, villain characters, fight and achievement and were rich in typical elements of fairy tale story. Likelihood stories were characterized by the presence of play and exploration activities, parents characters and the return to home. These type of stories mainly lack complicating action, resolutions and verbal interactions. Finally, these narrations do not show dramatic features as fantasy stories. The lexical analysis of emotions revealed that non-likelihood stories show more negative affective words than likelihood ones.Conclusion:Results make an important contribution to research on children’s narratives about travel, highlighting children’s imagination and expectations on the travel experience and providing an analysis of their representations.
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Gobbo, Francesca. "“Send in the Clowns!”, or the Imagination at Work: the Narratives of Three Pediatric Ward Clowns." Studia paedagogica 19, no. 4 (2014): 101–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/sp2014-4-5.
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Bevir, Mark. "Narrative as a Form of Explanation." Disputatio 1, no. 9 (November 1, 2000): 9–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/disp-2000-0009.
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Abstract Many scholars have argued that history embodies a different form of explanation from natural science. This paper provides an analysis of narrative conceived as the form of explanation appropriate to history. In narratives, actions, beliefs, and pro-attitudes are joined to one another by means of conditional and volitional connections. Conditional connections exist when beliefs and pro-attitudes pick up themes contained in one another. Volitional connections exist when agents command themselves to do something having decided to do it because of a pro-attitude they hold. The fear remains, however, that all narratives are constructed in part by the imagination of the writer, so if the human sciences deploy narratives, they lack proper epistemic legitimacy. The paper dispels this fear by arguing that we have proper epistemic grounds for postulating conditional and volitional connections because these connections are given to us by a folk psychology we accept as true.
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Rud, Daria. "Memory construction of the local space: analysis of mnemonic online messages on Shabolovka district (Moscow)." Inter 11, no. 18 (2019): 34–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.19181/inter.2019.18.3.
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The article is devoted to narrative recollections, published in social media. The author analyzed messages about the district Shabolovskaya / Tulskaya (in Moscow) in 2018. Analysis was performed using concepts of memory scale and mnemonic media. The concept of scale, usually used in a topographical sense, is modifed and applied to the temporal depth. Mnemonic media allows tracing memories with different criteria of memory validity and have a variety of functions: identity, imagination, knowledge transfer. Topics of Great Purge and avant-garde are isolated subjects of narratives, not intersecting with other topics. Narrative triggers of “mememory”, such as old city photographs, were identifed to designate the positions of a unifed identity, e.g. owners of childhood memories in a Soviet city. Typical features of narratives referring to different places were analyzed. Work can be attributed to the felds of post-socialist research, approbation of memory research methodology, analysis of narrative recollections in social media, local memory investigation.
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Chevalier, Noel. "Treasures of the Imagination: Rethinking Pirate Booty in Pirate Narratives." Lumen: Selected Proceedings from the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 37 (2018): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1042221ar.
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Just, Daniel. "Aesthetics of Blankness: Political Imagination in Marguerite Duras’s Hybrid Narratives." Romanic Review 101, no. 3 (May 1, 2010): 359–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/26885220-101.3.359.
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Traube, Elizabeth G. "Unpaid Wages: Local Narratives and the Imagination of the Nation." Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 8, no. 1 (March 2007): 9–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14442210601161724.
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Sarasa, Maria Cristina, and Luis Gabriel Porta. "Narratives of Desire, Love, Imagination, and Fluidity: Becoming an English Teacher in a University Preparation Program." Latin American Journal of Content & Language Integrated Learning 11, no. 1 (September 7, 2018): 141–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.5294/laclil.2018.11.1.7.
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This is a narrative study into the co-construction of teaching identities narrated by twenty-four undergraduate students in the context of an English language teacher education program in Argentina. Teacher identities are defined in the literature as co-authored stories of living and becoming. Our method uses narrative inquiry to study lived experiences as co-narrated phenomena. The narrative analysis of different texts gathered in the teacher education program allowed the co-composition of each participant’s identity story. Results first display thematizations of identity strands in these narratives involving emotions—love, desire, imagination, and fluidity. Next, participants’ negotiation of their processes of becoming through these emotions are retold. The discussion examines results considering state-of-the-art literature. The conclusions summarize the implications of the research for English language teacher initial university education.
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Creutziger, Christoph, and Paul Reuber. "Diskurse von Geopolitik und ‚Neuem Kaltem Krieg‘ – Zur Veränderung medialer Repräsentationen von Russland und ‚dem Osten‘." Geographica Helvetica 76, no. 1 (January 26, 2021): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-1-2021.
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Abstract. Thirty years after the Cold War, many aspects of the West's self-identification are still shaped by othering ‚the East‘. This geographical identity-building in Western media discourses is indicated by terms like geopolitics and the (New/Second) Cold War. The paper scrutinizes ‚grand‘ narratives behind the appearances of such concepts and observes their continuities, dislocations, and disruptions. Taking a critical geopolitical perspective informed by discourse theory and based on Foucault's conceptualization of the archive, the paper introduces aspects of the transformation of geopolitical imaginations of the East and the West: (1) it reconstructs phases of the rebirth of geopolitics after WW2 until today. (2) It focuses on the changes in the East-West relations after 1990 and shows how the imagination of the ‚cold war‘ disappears from media discourse. (3) Finally, it analyses the revival through rising geopolitical risk-narratives since the crises and wars in Georgia and Ukraine.
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Miller, Andrew. "Lives Unled in Realist Fiction." Representations 98, no. 1 (2007): 118–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2007.98.1.118.
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Referring to fiction by Charles Dickens and Henry James, this essay considers the moral psychology of counterfactual narratives, studying pressures that invite the imagination of alternate lives. Such "optative" narratives, characteristic of realism, typically become important within particular environments of attention; glancing at economic and ideological factors, the argument focuses on marriage and the loss of children.
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May-Chu, Karolina. "Von Grenzlandliteratur zur Poetik der Grenze. Deutsch-polnische Transiträume und die kosmopolitische Imagination." Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik 7, no. 2 (July 1, 2016): 87–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/zig-2016-0208.
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Abstract This contribution considers the changes in German-Polish border narratives since 1989, and it argues for a flexible transnational approach to studying borderlands literature. In particular, the article discusses ›border poetics‹ as an idiom of the cosmopolitan imagination: it is a broadly applicable narrative and cultural practice that connects locally and historically specific border experiences with universally understood liminal experiences (e.g., life and death) or with epistemic and ontological boundaries. Using examples from German and Polish literature, the article explains that border poetics both emerges from and expands upon an understanding of the border as a contact zone.
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Amalric, Jean-Luc. "L'imagination poético-pratique dans l'identité narrative." Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies 3, no. 2 (December 14, 2012): 110–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/errs.2012.130.
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Starting from a genesis of the concept of narrative identity, this article attemps to interpret the constitution process of our narrative identities through a systematic and synthetic review of the main contributions of the Ricœurian theory of imagination, from Freedom and Nature to Oneself as Another. In its complex imaginative constitution, narrative identity can then be characterized as a poetico-practical mix that mediates and puts in a dialectical relation two distinct functions of the imagination: a poetic and a practical one, which are themselves enlivened by a dialectic and an internal duplication.
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Conle, Carola, and Michelle Boone. "Local Heroes, Narrative Worlds and the Imagination: The Making of a Moral Curriculum Through Experiential Narratives." Curriculum Inquiry 38, no. 1 (January 2008): 7–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-873x.2007.00396.x.
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Ranasinghe, Prashan. "Refashioning vagrancy: a tale of Law's narrative of its imagination." International Journal of Law in Context 11, no. 3 (August 6, 2015): 320–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1744552315000178.
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AbstractThis paper explicates the relation between vagrancy and public disorder, a relation constituted by a dialecticism that is at once (dis)continuous and (dis)connected. This relationship is important not only to appreciate the place of public disorder vis-à-vis contemporary urban public space and social life, but historical vagrancy as well. The paper examines the refashioning of vagrancy, paying attention to the semantic legal reformatting of its constitution and how this process permits the regulation of essentially the same historical problems and concerns by translating them into legally sound language, visible in the shift from vagrancy to public disorder. This shift was necessary not simply to preserve the vestiges of vagrancy, now conspicuous in public disorder, but for the preservation of the images of, and imaginations about, Law, including its claims to justice. Loosely taking its cue from the visual culture movement which pays homage to the place of images in the ordering of the social world, the paper invokes (and, then, conflates) the concepts of image and imagination and explicates the manner in which the images of, and imaginations about, Law spearheaded the transmutation of the legal category of vagrancy by re-imagining the vagrant, a re-imagining which itself was the product not just of the Law's imagination, but, imaginations about the Law as well. The paper concludes by locating the place of the image and imagination to propounding a narrative of, and about, Law.
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Yeh, Hsin-Yi. "Telling a shared past, present, and future to invent nationality: The commemorative narrative of Chinese-ness from 1949 through 1987 in Taiwan." Memory Studies 11, no. 2 (December 1, 2016): 172–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698016679219.
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Consistent with memory studies’ emphasis on the tight relationship between memory and identity, this article regards nation-building as an ongoing social process of nation-remembering. Taking the official Chinese nationalism in Taiwan from 1949 through 1987 as the case, this study aims to demonstrate the significant role that commemorative narratives play in nation-remembering. Facing extraordinary difficulties, the master commemorative narrative of official Chinese nationalism led its intended national members to remember their Chinese-hood (thereby maintaining its legitimacy) by telling a shared past, present, and future. That is, collective memory facilitates the imagination of people’s commonalities in a community. Moreover, the abstractness of commemorative narratives allows room for employing mnemonic techniques to narrate a preferred shared past, present, and thus future for people to memorize their national identification. In addition to detailing the employed mnemonic techniques observed in the official Chinese nationalism, how the narrated shared past, present, and future are introduced as a package in the commemorative narrative to construct an organic whole and how the commemorative narrative undergoes ongoing modifications are discussed as well.
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Varghese, Ritu. "Mirabai in Popular Imagination." Artha Journal of Social Sciences 19, no. 2 (April 1, 2020): 67–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.12724/ajss.53.5.
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The immense popularity of Mirabai, the sixteenth-century bhakti poet-saint, transcends time and space. Beliefs have it that she renounced her kshatriya and royal identity for spiritual pursuits in the public domain. She was challenged, critiqued, ostracised, and castigated within her community and was labelled as a woman of questionable character. Mirabai wandered to various places, singing and dancing to bhajans negotiating the public and the private while becoming both virtuous and promiscuous in multiple narratives. Mirabai has been accommodated within the marginalised and subaltern communities and gradually, a community of destitute women has formed around her. With the revival of Mirabai during the Indian ‘nationalist’ period by popular spokespersons such as Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi as an ‘ideal’ and ‘chaste’ historical character in their public speeches and private letters, the promiscuous image of Mirabai, perpetuated through centuries, witnessed transgressions and she was eventually elevated to the status of a saint. This paper with literary, biographical and hagiographical representations explores the mechanism of the paradoxical plane that allowed the promiscuous image of Mirabai to achieve sainthood and become a cult name in the bhakti tradition.
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Kieling, Camila Garcia. "How do you spell “freedom”? Narratives about the 25 April 1974 Revolution in the Brazilian press." Comunicação e Sociedade 34 (December 17, 2018): 367–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.17231/comsoc.34(2018).2954.
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This paper proposes a recomposition of the intrigue of journalistic narratives on the Revolution of April 25, 1974 in Portugal based on the coverage of two Brazilian newspapers: O Estado de S. Paulo and Jornal do Brasil. The journalistic narrative is understood as a time orderer in the contemporaneity, expressing a “generalized circulation of historical perception” (Nora, 1979, p. 180), mobilized by the emergence of a new phenomenon: the event. The unusual coup d’état in Portugal stirred the world’s political imagination, reviving confrontations between left and right. At that moment, in Brazil, the military dictatorship completed 10 years and the fourth president of the Armed Forces was beginning its mandate. Narratives are analyzed from different points of view: the organization of facts in time, the construction of characters, projections for the future, or the re-signification of the past.
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Jonker, Gerdien. "Caught in a Nutshell." Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society 3, no. 1 (March 1, 2011): 61–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/jemms.2011.030105.
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In this article, I explore the dominant narratives about Islam in German history textbooks from the eighteenth century until the present day. I thereby deconstruct a longue durée script with a rather curious pattern. Until the 1980s, textbook narratives about Islam were rooted exclusively in people's historical imagination. Only when the children of Turkish workers entered the classroom did textbook authors try to accommodate knowledge based on real encounters. By addressing the di erent stages of this longue durée script, I enquire into the functions of narratives as they underpinned a German and European "we."
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Green, Garrett. "Myth, History, and Imagination: The Creation Narratives in Bible and Theology." Horizons in Biblical Theology 12, no. 1 (1990): 19–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187122090x00082.
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Armeni, Chiara. "Narratives as Tools of Legal Re-Imagination in the Climate Crisis." Journal of Environmental Law 33, no. 2 (March 1, 2021): 485–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jel/eqab007.
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Jenkins, Rebecca, Elizabeth Nixon, and Mike Molesworth. "‘Just normal and homely’: The presence, absence and othering of consumer culture in everyday imagining." Journal of Consumer Culture 11, no. 2 (July 2011): 261–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1469540511402446.
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The imaginative aspects of consumption have been recognized as playing a key role in accounting for Western consumerism, yet there has been surprisingly little attention paid to the role of imagining in everyday life. Previous consumer research has tended to focus on goods and services within daydreams and fantasies so that goods seem to be central to, and key resources in, the construction of imagined scenarios. Here we argue that this methodological framing has restricted a broader understanding of the imagination and the contextualization of consumption within it. By analysing phenomenological accounts that placed imagining ahead of consumption as the focus of the study, we found that individuals readily envisioned common cultural desires for successful relationships, happiness and love in positive imagined futures, where goods may be merely assumed as part of the background, or dismissed in favour of preferred emotional experiences. As such this article uses Law’s (2004) conceptions of presence, manifest absence and othering to provide a more nuanced analysis of how and where consumption may be seen in the imagination. In this way we suggest that previous narratives of the consumer imagination have neglected individuals’ autonomy in both removing consumer practices and positioning social relationships as more prominent.
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Shmuel, Irit, and Nir Cohen. "The Geographical imagination of Israeli tourists to Turkey." International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research 14, no. 3 (June 10, 2020): 385–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijcthr-11-2019-0201.
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Purpose This study aims to examine changes in the discourse concerning Israeli tourism to Turkey between 2000 and 2014. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the concept of geographic imagination and using a critical cultural discourse analysis of travel stories published in the Israeli media, the authors analyze the extent to which changes have both reflected and resulted from changing relations between the two countries. Findings The analysis reveals that before 2010, Turkey was depicted in largely positive geo-cultural terms, imagined as a desired cosmopolitan, culturally “authentic” destination, which elicits feelings of joy and peacefulness. More recent narratives, however, highlighted its negative geopolitical qualities, underscoring its anti-Israel stance and invoking a fearful discourse of political and ethno-religious radicalization. Originality/value The study makes three contributions. First, by attending to the significance of perceptions in the social construction of tourist destinations it brings the fields of tourism and cognitive geography into a closer dialogue. Second, by using a critical discourse analysis it highlights the changing cultural contexts within which places are imagined and constructed by tourists. Finally, by uncovering the geographic complexities that undergird the discursive construction of places as tourist destinations, it illustrates how everyday narratives change over time, reflecting the dynamic nature of inter-state relations.
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Castor, Laura. "Translation." Nordlit 9, no. 2 (July 1, 2005): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.1847.
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"Translation" is a life narrative about the ways in which cultural histories shape personal stories, and the capacity of the imagination to develop alternative narratives about oneself and the world. It can also be read a way of addressing the effects of what Ato Quayson calls the global process of postcolonializing. Quaysons critical perspective might be used as an interpretive lens for seeing some of the ways in which this autobiographical narrative complicates the jargon of race, class, gender," terminology which risks reducing the lived experiences of individuals to slogans and ideologies. The narrative considers, imaginatively, the difficulties of cultural translation, and especially some of the inadequacies of thinking in terms of narrow ideologies and national identities at the turn of the 21st century.
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PARK-KANG, SUNGJU. "Fictional IR and imagination: Advancing narrative approaches." Review of International Studies 41, no. 2 (September 29, 2014): 361–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210514000291.
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AbstractIn the field of International Relations (IR), narrative approaches and an alternative way of writing seem to have gained growing attention in recent scholarship. Autoethnography and autobiography can be taken as primary examples. The article aims to advance this growing scholarship by proposing the concept of fictional IR. The idea is concerned with how to use the imagination in IR. I suggest that fiction writing can become a method for dealing with lack of information and contingency surrounding it. Fictional IR is more than reading and using fiction as a reference source or vehicle for analysis. It can incorporate the employment of fiction writing in IR scholarship. One of the benefits could be to articulate sensitive and complicated problems in a more flexible and imaginative way, making the most of the power of story and imagination. It should be stressed that the focal point is to write fiction; it is not to write about fiction. To support this suggestion, the article offers a short fictional-factual story. By using imagination, creating characters, combining data with fictional narrative, or with one's own experience, I believe that more original and empathetic IR writing is possible.
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Luton, Larry. "The Art of Administrative Biography: Wallace Stegner's John Wesley Powell." Public Voices 4, no. 1 (January 26, 2017): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.22140/pv.334.
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Wallace Stegner's biography of John Wesley Powell is a valuable case study of the art involved in administrative biography. Biographical narratives entail a kind of thinking that involves the use of imagination, a viewpoint regarding human intentions and dynamics, an appreciation of the complex influences of historical and cultural context, and an empathetic engagement. This kind of thinking is valued highly by public administrators. It is well suited both to the representationand to the development of practical knowledge. Examining the impact of Stegner's perspective on this biography leads to important lessons regarding the interpreter's influence on the meaning derived from a nonfiction narrative.
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Kerner, Aaron Michael. "The Circulation of Post-Millennial Extreme Cinema." Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas 2, no. 3 (September 27, 2016): 200–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23523085-00203002.
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Extreme cinema is an international trend which encompasses a wide range of cinematic genres: thrillers, dramatic narratives, so-called “art films,” and horror films. In the context of Asian extreme films, we find an especially highly-dynamic crisscrossing of influences. There is an assumption in the Western imagination that the Asian diaspora is unidirectional insofar as Asian populations gravitate toward the beacons of Western civilization. Trends in post-millennial extreme cinema however disrupt this particular diasporic narrative. This article argues that post-millennial extreme films are not simply a bidirectional flow, but rather a complex circulation of themes, aesthetic motifs, and filmmakers.
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Sinnerbrink, Robert. "Imagining Cinema: ‘Cinempathy’ and the Embodied Imagination." Paragraph 43, no. 3 (November 2020): 281–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.2020.0341.
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Imagination has been the focus of much philosophical inquiry in recent decades. Although it plays an essential role in linking emotional engagement with ethical experience, imagination has received comparatively little attention in film-philosophy. In this article, I argue that imagination plays an essential role in linking emotional engagement with moral-ethical experience. Drawing on phenomenological, cognitive and aesthetic perspectives, I focus on perceptual imagining and suggest that an account of embodied cinematic imagination — encompassing both perceptual/sensory and propositional/cognitive imagining — is especially relevant to theorizing cinematic experience. The interplay of first-person empathic and third-person sympathetic perspectives (‘cinempathy’) is another essential feature of our emotional and ethical engagement with cinema. By synthesizing ‘bottom-up’ sensory, affective responses to audiovisual images, with ‘top-down’ cognitive processes associated with mental simulation, an account of embodied cinematic imagination can explain how emotional engagement and ethical responsiveness work together in our experience of audiovisual narratives.