Narratives and social change : social reality in contemporary society / Emiliana Mangone.
This book is an important contribution to narrative research and highlights how narratives can produce social change. The author demonstrates this through an analysis of concepts like future, uncertainty and risk, both in terms of individual impact and as collective forms of social life. The book re...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Springer,
2022.
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| Series: | Culture in policy making,
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2022 English/International |
| Summary: | This book is an important contribution to narrative research and highlights how narratives can produce social change. The author demonstrates this through an analysis of concepts like future, uncertainty and risk, both in terms of individual impact and as collective forms of social life. The book reconstructs the relationships between future, uncertainty and risk through everyday how narratives exert power over individual and social life by influencing individual or collective decisions and choices. Narratives also change future prospects, thus producing social change. Some of the examples the author draws out for discussion are - in specific - the narration of the migration flows in the Mediterranean Sea, and the narration of the pandemic emergency from COVID-19. The result of different narratives has been the emergence of new ideologies and of a complex series of dynamics in which the local ends up becoming global and vice versa. Highly topical and interdisciplinary in its approach, this book is of interest to researchers and students of the sociology of culture and communication, media and communication studies, social and cultural psychology and cultural anthropology. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 184 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 3030945642 9783030945640 3030945650 9783030945657 |
| ISSN: | 2523-7314 |