Feeling stories: A Bakhtinian reading of metaphor in the practice of reflexive narrative analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 815-831
Author(s):  
Susan Soennichsen ◽  
Mandy Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Psychological Approach ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Psychological Literature ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Literary Practices ◽  
Theoretical Conceptualization

This paper aims to contribute to the critical psychological literature on a narrative psychological approach to emotion, particularly with regard to the ways in which critically reflective and metaphorically rich writing enhances our theoretical conceptualization of culturally constituted emotional experiences. We engage the concepts of sjuzet and fabula, initially introduced to the study of literature by the Russian formalists, and later extended by Mikhail Bakhtin, to consider how political dimensions of literary practices in cultural context strengthen reflexive narrative analysis. To illustrate our arguments, we provide analysis of passages from an article by Theodore Sarbin, working with an interpretation of sjuzet and fabula from a Bakhtinian theoretical perspective.

Dialogue as Generative Form of Positioning

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hubert J. M Hermans
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Main Part ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
The Self ◽  
David Bohm ◽  
Self Talk ◽  
Central Elements

For the development of a democratic self, dialogical relationships between different people and between different positions in the self are paramount. After a review of studies on self-talk, the main part of this chapter is devoted to a comparison of the works of two classic thinkers on dialogue, Mikhail Bakhtin and David Bohm. A third theoretical perspective is depicted in which central elements of the two theorists are combined. This perspective centers around the concept of “generative dialogue” that, as a learning process, has the potential of innovation in the form of new and common meanings without total unification of the different positions. Elaborating on central features of generative dialogue, a distinction is made between consonant and dissonant dialogue, the latter of which is inevitable in a time of globalization and localization in which people are increasingly interdependent and, at the same time, faced with their apparent differences.

scholarly journals Interface Direito/Psicologia em imagens: experimentação fotográfica em sala de aula

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Lúcia Regina Ruduit Dias ◽  
Andréa Vieira Zanella ◽  
Jaqueline Tittoni
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Interdisciplinary Practice ◽  
Legal Psychology ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Image Production ◽  
Psychology Course

O presente artigo é resultado de experimentação fotográfica realizada com alunos da disciplina de psicologia jurídica de um curso de Direito, dentro do contexto de pesquisa sobre imagem. Em sala de aula foi feito o pedido de que os alunos produzissem imagens sobre a “interface Direito/Psicologia” para posterior projeção e debate sobre as mesmas e seu processo de produção. A experimentação fotográfica visibilizou os diferentes olhares, colocando foco na tensão existente entre as práticas disciplinares e interdisciplinares, na prática interdisciplinar como ferramenta importante na solução de problemas sociais complexos, problematizando, ainda, as práticas contemporâneas em Direito. Entende-se, através das noções de Mikail Bakhtin, que a experimentação fotográfica se colocou como criação estética, enquanto um processo complexo de posicionamentos axiológicos que implicam tomadas de posições em um contexto cultural constituído pela multiplicidade de vozes sociais, onde compreender é uma atividade dialógica. This article is the result of photographic experimentation carried out by students of a forensic psychology course at the Faculty of Law Dom Bosco Porto Alegre ( FDB ), within the context of research on image. This discipline tensions the assumptions of positivist Legal Psychology of the subject as an autonomous, free individual, and voice of reason. In class students were asked to produce images on "Law / Psychology interface" for projection in classroom, discussion about these images and their production process. The photographic experimentation showed different looks, tensions, and refractions that could be seen in the image production process, focusing on the tension between the disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices, and also on interdisciplinary practice as an important tool in solving complex social problems, such as violence against children and youth, social inequalities, divorce, discrimination, homoaffective relations, homeless people, prison system, psychological distress and work of waste pickers. The photos also problematize contemporary practices in law as restorative justice, special testimony and mediation. It is understood, through the concepts of Mikhail Bakhtin, that photographic experimentation stood as aesthetic creation in a complex process involving axiological positions resulting in positions taking in a cultural context constituted by the multiplicity of social voices, where understanding is not a simple passive psychological experience on other people’s action, but a dialogical activity, that in the presence of a text or an image generates many other texts and images.

What Is Reproductive Justice?

Meridians ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (S1) ◽  
pp. 340-362
Author(s):  
Kimala Price
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
New Framework

Abstract Frustrated by the individualist approach of the “choice” paradigm used by the mainstream reproductive rights movement in the United States, a growing coalition of women of color organizations and their allies have sought to redefine and broaden the scope of reproductive rights by using a human rights framework. Dubbing itself “the movement for reproductive justice,” this coalition connects reproductive rights to other social justice issues such as economic justice, education, immigrant rights, environmental justice, sexual rights, and globalization, and believes that this new framework will encourage more women of color and other marginalized groups to become more involved in the political movement for reproductive freedom. Using narrative analysis, this essay explores what reproductive justice means to this movement, while placing it within the political, social, and cultural context from which it emerged.

Populist stories of honest men and proud mothers: A visual narrative analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Freistein ◽  
Frank Gadinger
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Visual Narrative ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Methodological Tool ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Exploratory Case Studies

AbstractThis article proposes the methodological framework of visual narrative analysis through the study of images and narratives. We are interested in the appeal of political storytelling. In applying an approach of layered interpretation, we study images and slogans to consider the more complex underlying narratives in their political and cultural context. Our exploratory case studies draw on material from right-wing populist parties, namely election campaign posters from Germany and the UK as material for the analysis. We find that narratives operate with a ‘fantasmatic logic’, which adds fantasy to politics, to depoliticise and camouflage their radical intent and gain approval by making consent desirable. We identify two exemplary narratives (honest men under threat; proud mothers) that entrench traditional gender roles in accordance with patriarchy and nationalism. Theoretically, our approach contributes to debates in IR on cultural underpinnings in international politics and the construction of collective identities through shared/divided narratives. Visual narrative analysis provides a promising methodological tool for analysing visual representations in their productive relationship with text. This perspective foregrounds the power of political storytelling through fantasmatic appeal and fosters a better understanding of the global rise of populism.

An Intervention Targetting Hopelessness in Adolescents by Promoting Positive Future Images

2001 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 51-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M Gidley
Keyword(s):  
Primary Prevention ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Psychology Research ◽  
Futures Studies ◽  
Psychological Literature ◽  
Futures Research ◽  
The Future ◽  
Images Of The Future

This paper presents some ground-work for the development of a new theoretical approach which has the potential to contribute to primary prevention of suicide in adolescents by targetting hopelessness. Drawing on the extensive psychological literature which has linked hopelessness with depression and suicide risk for decades, the author notes that although there is a strong research and clinical base for targetting depression, there is a gap in the psychological literature when it comes to targetting hopelessness, specifically. Looking beyond the psychology field to the futures studies research field, the author draws links between the psychology research that does exist and the youth futures research which correlates rising youth suicide rates with growing fears and negativity of young people towards the future. Based on this new theoretical perspective, an intervention has been developed and is detailed here which attempts to reduce hopelessness in adolescents by promoting more positive images of the future.

An empirical study of elder abuse in the state of Uttar Pradesh of India

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avanish Bhai Patel ◽  
Anindya J. Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Elder Abuse ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Family

Purpose Elder abuse is the matter of grave concern in recent times in India. Today, older people are facing the abusive behaviour such as maltreatment, mental and physical torture and heedless ignominy from the family and the society. The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature of elder abuse in Indian socio-cultural context and also focuses on the causes of elder abuse and abusers. Design/methodology/approach Mixed method design has been applied in this paper. The study has been conducted from October 2012-January 2013 on a sample of 220 older people living in both rural and urban areas of Lucknow, India. The data have been analysed through descriptive and narrative analysis. Findings The study finds that the emotional abuse is more common among the older people, which raises the feeling of insecurity, depression and isolation. The study also points out that the respect, honour, status and authority which were enjoyed by the elderly in the traditional society, have gradually started declining. Moreover, the study finds that the family members, do not provide proper food, clothing and medical facilities in rural areas. Research limitations/implications Since the sample of older respondents was small and focused on those living in a particular area of one state, the authors cannot generalise from this study to include the great diversity of experience and difference in perceptions among the older people even within a particular state. However, widespread and diverse types of accounts of elder abuse were reported even in these settings, which can help indicate areas for future research and policies. Originality/value This is an original paper, which is based on the experiences of older people living in rural-urban areas and discussed the elder abuse in socio-cultural context.

A Case of Historic Cannibalism in the American West: Implications for Southwestern Archaeology

2005 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison E. Rautman ◽  
Todd W. Fenton
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
American West ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Mass Murder ◽  
American Southwest ◽  
The Body ◽  
Hispanic American ◽  
Human Skeletal Remains ◽  
Cut Marks

Discoveries of concentrated deposits of fragmentary human bone and their interpretation as evidence of cannibalism in the pre-Hispanic American Southwest have engaged archaeologists in a continuing debate. Forensic study of the victims in the historic Alferd [sic] Packer case from southern Colorado in the 1870s contributes to this discussion by providing detailed data regarding perimortem trauma, cut marks, and butchering patterns in a well-accepted case of mass murder and survival cannibalism. In particular, postmortem cut marks record a butchering strategy focused on filleting muscle tissue for immediate consumption; patterning of cut marks was structured by anatomy and also by cultural values. Contrasts between this historic case and the archaeological assemblages highlights the need for a more nuanced discussion of the cultural context and meaning of the archaeological cases. Interpretations of human skeletal remains arguably must begin with the view of “the body as artifact” and from a theoretical perspective defined largely by osteology and in comparison with zooarchaeological assemblages under various ecological conditions. At this point, however, the debate regarding Anasazi cannibalism would benefit from the addition of other anthropological perspectives, particularly those concerning the human body as a vehicle for the expression of cultural ideas and values.

scholarly journals Paternalistic Leadership

Management ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekin K. Pellegrini
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Moral Leadership ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Paternalistic Leadership ◽  
Indigenous Leadership ◽  
Hierarchical Relationship ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Conceptual Clarity

Paternalistic leadership (PL) remains the leading indigenous leadership research area with increasing interest in the past three decades, and an exponential growth of research productivity in the last ten years. Paternalism in the context of leadership reflects a hierarchical relationship and is based on the assumption of power inequality. The current body of research on PL is fragmented, with research emerging from an array of different cultural contexts. While cross-cultural research interest provides an inclusive cultural base for theoretical development, it has also led to a lack of conceptual clarity, insufficient delineation of research paradigms, and inconsistent results. In the extant PL literature, two broad conceptualizations can be identified. First, there is theoretical and empirical research disseminating from Turkey, which defines PL as a hierarchical relationship in which the leader guides employees in their professional and personal lives, in a manner resembling a parent, and in return expects loyalty and deference. This definition refers to PL as a construct comprised of benevolent and authoritative leadership, common in the Middle East. Second, there is a more authoritarian definition emerging from China which suggests a configural approach and refers to PL as a combination of authoritarian, benevolent, and moral leadership. Given these two established and diverse conceptualizations, the definition of PL depends, in part, on one’s cultural context and theoretical perspective.

Conversion and the Truth of Tolerance

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Ylli H. Doci
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Anthropological Approach ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
The One

:Exploring the environment of inter-religious interactions to find out about its nature and meaning, is done with many presuppositions in mind, which should be clear before we engage the subject. In this study we come with a certain view of what tolerance means and argue for the importance of distinguishing the view which allows for tolerance from the one that dissolves tolerance. We also seek to present the arguments for the needed ingredients which constitute a tolerant attitude and we cannot emphasize enough the role of conversion in determining the level of tolerance present in the environment of conversion. The element of conversion is crucial in defining as tolerant a certain inter-religious environment. Depending on the cultural context where conversion happens the consequences of conversion are felt in different ways. The anthropological approach seeks to understand the nature and the meaning of this phenomenon in its cultural context, where social and political dimensions are considered, employing ethnographic description and theoretical analysis.Keywords: Conversion, inter-religious tolerance, interview, correspondence view of truth.

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