Narrative Power
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Narrative Power

The Struggle for Human Value

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Narrative Power

The Struggle for Human Value

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About This Book

Narratives are the wealth of nations: they animate life, sustain culture and cultivate humanity. They regulate and empower us, bringing both joy and discontent. And they are always embedded in ubiquitous power: stories shape power, and power shapes story.

In this provocative and original study, Ken Plummer takes us on a journey to explore some of the key dimensions of this narrative power. His main focus is on what he calls 'narratives of suffering' and how these change through transformative narrative actions across an array of media forms. The modern world is in crisis, and long-standing narratives are being challenged in five major directions: through deep inequalities, global state complexities, digital risks, the perpetual puzzle of truth and the ever-emerging contingencies of time. Asking how we can build sustainable stories for a better future, the book advocates the cultivation of a narrative hope, a narrative wisdom and a politics of narrative humanity.

Narrative Power suggests novel directions for enquiry, discusses a raft of innovative ideas and concepts, and sets a striking new agenda for research and action.

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Publisher
Polity
Year
2019
ISBN
9781509517060
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Popular Culture
Index
Social Sciences

Index

  • 9/11, 15–16, 17, 126, 142, 155
  • 12 Years A Slave (McQueen), 64

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  • abstraction, 24, 34, 40–1, 55, 83
  • accountability, 14–15, 113–14
  • Achebe, Chinua, 112
  • activism see protest; social movements
  • Adie, Kate, 103
  • Adorno, Theodor W., 48, 125, 150
  • advertising, 33, 47–8, 56, 107
  • aesthetics, 37, 109, 122, 125–6, 128–9
  • affective power, 53
  • Afghanistan, 114
  • ‘Aftermath’ exhibition, 162
  • Against Our Will (Brownmiller), 139
  • Agamben, Giorgio, 68–9
  • Ai Weiwei, 69
  • AIDS, 57, 78, 142
  • AIDS ACT UP, 78
  • Albert, Michael, 150
  • Alexander, Jeffrey, 57–8
  • algorithms, 89, 92, 95
  • Allende, Salvador, 14
  • alterity, 72, 127
  • Amazon, 67
  • American Slave: A C...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. Prologue: Going Backstage
  4. Overture: In the Beginning
  5. Act I Setting Scenes: Narrative Power as a Way of Seeing
  6. Act 2 Locating Tensions: The Fragility of Narrative
  7. Act 3 Moving On: Acts of Narrative Hope
  8. References
  9. Index
  10. End User License Agreement