{"title":"Organizational small storymaking","authors":"A. Bager, John G. McClellan","doi":"10.1075/ni.22052.bag","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.22052.bag","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this contribution, we place narrative theory in conversation with narrative practice to offer a small\u0000 storymaking approach for engendering organizational change. Drawing on insights from counter-narrative studies, small story\u0000 analysis, and communicative approaches to organizational change, we offer an applied narratology that conceptualizes\u0000 organizational change as occurring in small storymaking practices. Embracing discourse and communication as constitutive of\u0000 organizations, we invite narrative scholars to move beyond traditional distanced researcher positions to participate more actively\u0000 in the co-creation of small stories and thus enable more participatory, collaborative organizational change practices. Rather than\u0000 merely interpreting organizational stories, as in many traditional narrative studies, our applied narratology encourages\u0000 researchers to invite organizational participants to co-create stories of their potential futures. Through this tension-filled\u0000 practice of organizational small storymaking, narrative researchers and leaders can generate the ‘small story openings’ necessary\u0000 to inspire innovative change.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141345182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modus narrandi sceleris: Temporal shift in the crafting style of crime narratives","authors":"Fabio Indìo Massimo Poppi","doi":"10.1075/ni.24007.pop","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.24007.pop","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study contributes to a methodological debate within narrative studies, emerging from the specific context of\u0000 narrative criminology. It examines the evolution of storytelling styles, focusing on how the narrative selection process shapes a\u0000 narrative, thereby revealing both the origins of narratives and their capacity to offer critical insights into the narrator’s\u0000 perspective. This research specifically investigates the change of how narratives about the same events or topics, as recounted by\u0000 two different individuals, change over time in terms of their narrative construction. Focusing on crime narratives provided by two\u0000 participants – a drug dealer and a gangmaster – first in 2019 and again in 2023, the study demonstrates how these narratives not\u0000 only evolve in structural complexity but also incorporate more sophisticated elements that highlight the narrators’ agency,\u0000 rationalize or justify their criminal actions, or depict complex criminal identities. The findings underscore the potent\u0000 methodological contributions this approach can make to narrative criminology, offering new insights into criminal behavior and\u0000 dynamics that might not be as apparent in single-time-point interviews. This approach thus enriches the broader narrative studies\u0000 discourse by applying its techniques and insights to the unique challenges and structures of criminal narratives.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141100888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Narratology, applied","authors":"Lois Presser","doi":"10.1075/ni.22060.pre","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.22060.pre","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Criminology is foundationally an applied discipline, or one whose knowledge seeks to shape some non-academic practice. Narratives – particularly the narratives of parties to ‘crime’ – are essential to criminology, but criminologists have hardly engaged with narratology. This paper tracks the progression from traditional narrative research involving harm agents and criminalized persons to a relatively new narrative criminology that is attentive to narrative forms and strategies inasmuch as it considers these as shaping harm. In addition, the paper forecasts narrative criminology’s fruitful engagement in concepts from rhetorical narratology. Interviews with men who perpetrated violence and insights from restorative justice encounters are used to demonstrate the potential value of rhetorical narratological concepts to narrative criminology and to interventions informed by narrative criminology.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140752925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eevastiina Kinnunen, Hanna Meretoja, Päivi Kosonen
{"title":"Applying the approach of narrative agency","authors":"Eevastiina Kinnunen, Hanna Meretoja, Päivi Kosonen","doi":"10.1075/ni.22029.kin","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.22029.kin","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this article, we discuss a dialogue between narrative theory, reading group practices, and analysis of reading\u0000 group participants’ experiences. Hanna Meretoja’s theory of narrative agency has informed us in developing a new reading group\u0000 model that aims to enhance the participants’ narrative agency, and, in turn, the analysis of the reading group experiences\u0000 provides us with new knowledge on the reading group model, as well as on the theoretical approach. We explore narrative agency\u0000 analysis as a tool to analyze interviews, and our analysis of three participants’ experiences illustrates how narrative agency can\u0000 manifest itself in various forms. It also demonstrates that the enhanced ability to navigate narrative environments can be highly\u0000 meaningful on a personal level. The article suggests that, despite its challenges, this kind of research approach, combining\u0000 theory and practice, enriches and expands the possibilities of literary studies.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139781499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eevastiina Kinnunen, Hanna Meretoja, Päivi Kosonen
{"title":"Applying the approach of narrative agency","authors":"Eevastiina Kinnunen, Hanna Meretoja, Päivi Kosonen","doi":"10.1075/ni.22029.kin","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.22029.kin","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this article, we discuss a dialogue between narrative theory, reading group practices, and analysis of reading\u0000 group participants’ experiences. Hanna Meretoja’s theory of narrative agency has informed us in developing a new reading group\u0000 model that aims to enhance the participants’ narrative agency, and, in turn, the analysis of the reading group experiences\u0000 provides us with new knowledge on the reading group model, as well as on the theoretical approach. We explore narrative agency\u0000 analysis as a tool to analyze interviews, and our analysis of three participants’ experiences illustrates how narrative agency can\u0000 manifest itself in various forms. It also demonstrates that the enhanced ability to navigate narrative environments can be highly\u0000 meaningful on a personal level. The article suggests that, despite its challenges, this kind of research approach, combining\u0000 theory and practice, enriches and expands the possibilities of literary studies.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139841163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Narratives of stressful and traumatic personal experience disclosed by students with mental health conditions in\u0000 medical consultations","authors":"Agnieszka Sowińska","doi":"10.1075/ni.23042.sow","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.23042.sow","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper advances the field of narratives by focusing on the narratives of personal experience disclosed by\u0000 students with mental health conditions, in particular depression, anxiety and borderline personality disorder, in medical\u0000 consultations. I draw on sociolinguistic and discourse-analytic approaches to the analysis of narratives in interaction, viewing\u0000 language as a tool for constructing social reality, and examine the content, structural properties and functions of the stories\u0000 (Labov & Waletzky, 1967; De Fina &\u0000 Georgakopoulou, 2011). Engaging in self-disclosure and sharing stories of stressful and traumatic experience in medical\u0000 consultations allows the students (1) to explain symptoms and interpret causes of their current health problems, (2) manage\u0000 accountability, and (3) confront and cope with their painful experience and stigma.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139685907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}