The Uses of Narrative: Explorations in Sociology, Psychology and Cultural Studies

by Sclater,Shelley

• ISBN13: 9780765808165
• ISBN10: 0765808161
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-05-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Social scientists increasingly invoke "narrative" in their theory and research. This book explores the wide range of work in sociology, psychology, and cultural studies in which narrative approaches have been used to study meaning, subjectivity, politics, and power in concrete contexts. The Uses of Narrative complicates, challenges and stimulates, while demonstrating the diversity and potential of narrative approaches.

Table of Contents

Litt of contributors	vii
Foreword by Norman K. Denzin	xi
Introduction	1	(10)
MOLLY ANDREWS, SHELLEY DAY SCLATER, MICHAEL RUSTIN, CORINNE SQUIRE AND AMAL TREACHER
PART I Narrative and culture	11	(64)
Introduction	13	(62)
CORINNE SQUIRE
1 Narrative, civil society and public culture	18	(18)
RONALD N. JACOBS
2 Resurrective practice and narrative	36	(12)
CLIVE SEALE
3 Wedding bells and baby carriages: heterosexuals imagine gay families, gay families imagine themselves	48	(16)
SUZANNA DANUTA WALTERS
4 Narratives as bad faith	64	(13)
IAN CRAIB
PART II Narrative and life history	75	(54)
Introduction	77	(52)
MOLLY ANDREWS
5 When the story's over: narrative foreclosure and the possibility of self-renewal	81	(11)
MARK FREEMAN
6 A cautious ethnography of socialism: autobiographical narrative in the Czech Republic	92	(12)
ZDENEK KONOPASEK WITH MOLLY ANDREWS
7 'Papa's bomb': the local and the global in women's Manhattan Project personal narratives	104	(13)
CAROL WOLKOWITZ
8 Betrayals, trauma and self-redemption? The meanings of 'the closing of the mines' in two ex-miners' narratives	117	(14)
TOM WENGRAF
PART III Narrative and discourse	129	(64)
Introduction	131	(19)
SHELLEY DAY SCLATER
9 Narrative, discourse and the unconscious: the case of Tommy	136	(14)
WENDY HOLLWAY AND TONY JEFFERSON
10 Fictional(ising) identity? Ontological assumptions and methodological productions of ('anorexic') subjectivities	150	(14)
HELEN MALSON
11 'Let them rot': four boys talk about punishment	164	(16)
MARION V. SMITH
12 Narrative and the discursive (re)construction of events	180	(13)
JACKIE ABELL, ELIZABETH H. STOKOE AND MICHAEL BILLIG
Conclusion	193	(6)
PHIL BRADBURY AND SHELLEY DAY SCLATER
Index	199