This book advances social scientific interest in a field long dominated by the humanities: stories, and storytelling. Stories are a whole lot more than entertainment; oral narratives, novels, films and immersive video games all form part of the sociocultural discourses which we are enmeshed in, and use to co-construct our beliefs about the world around us. Young children use them to learn about the world beyond their immediate sensory experience and, even in an era of interactive electronic media, the bedtime story remains a cherished part of most children’s daily routine. Storytelling is thus the first abstract formal learning method we encounter as human beings. It is also probably transcultural; perhaps even an immanent part of the human condition. Narratives are, at heart, sequences of events and presuppose and reinforce particular cause-and-effect relationships. Inevitably, they also construct unconscious biases, prejudices, and discriminatory attitudes. Storying (a term we use in this book to encompass stories, storytellers and storytelling) is complex, and this book seeks to make sense of it.
Author(s): Tom Vine, Sarah Richards
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 315
City: Cham
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: Introduction
Background
Demarcating Our Unique Contribution to Knowledge
Towards a ‘Science’ of Storying: A Triadic Rendering
Storying and Ethics
Storytelling-as-Method Appeals to Some Fields More So Than Others
Storying Serves a Vital Role in the Construction of Collective Identity
Storytelling as Revelation
Storytelling as a Unique Pedagogical Device
Chapter Synopses
Storyteller—Storytelling—Story
Storyteller—Storytelling—Story
Storyteller—Storytelling—Story
References
2: Narratives in (in)Authenticity: The Early Career Academic
Prologue
Autoethnography and Ethnographic Fiction
Erudite
An Emerging Academic
Epilogue
References
3: Women, Bullying, and the Construction Industry: A Story of Veiled Gender Dynamics
What Is Workplace Bullying?
Reviewing the Literature
(1) Gender, Complexity, and Paradox
(2) Women in the Construction Industry
(3) Workplace Bullying Between Women
Method
Ethnography
Diaries
Data Analysis
Case Context: Tina’s Preamble
Tina’s Story
Discussion
Being Conciliatory
Reconsidering
Reducing Interference
Redeveloping Balance
Concluding Thoughts
Tina’s Reflection
References
4: Clinical Advance Through Ethnographic Storytelling: Towards an Enacted Organisational Role for the Hospital Visitor
Auntie Halina
Method and Ethics
The Story
2 September 2017
9 September 2017
21 October 2017
22 October 2017
Discussion
The Salience of the Social, Cultural and Emotional Aspects of Hospital Care
The Visitor Has a Multifaceted Role: ‘Catalyst of Care’, ‘Proxy Carer’ and ‘Emotional Mediator’
So What Now?
Concluding Thoughts
References
5: Two-and-One: Discovering My Story in Participants’ Pregnancy Narratives
Introduction
Method
Defining the Participant
Defining the Researcher
Defining the Space Between Participant and Researcher
Concluding Thoughts
References
6: Exploring Polyvocal Stories of Space, Place, Movement, and Migration
Introduction
Situating Ourselves
Anna-Leah King
Barbara McNeil
Heather Phipps
Kathryn Ricketts
Situating Our Storytelling
Storying the Site of Our Practices
Diverse Voices in Response to Indigenous Literature—The âcimowin Circle
Africa in Me: Anancy/Ananse/Anansi on the Canadian Plains
Storying the Landscapes of Self and Other: Topographies of Body and Land
Fact and Fiction
LUG, Remington, and Rufus
Vignette 1: I Moved Between Them—A Kinaesthetic Conduit from Him to Them
Copenhagen, 1987
Vignette 2: The Hockey Stick—Disrupting the Habituated
Vancouver, 2009
Vignette 3: The Letter—A Collective Voice
Vancouver, 2008
Catalysts for Shared Storytelling
Concluding Remarks
References
7: Whose Story Is It Anyway? Hashtag Campaigns and Digital Abortion Storytelling
Introduction
Abortion Storytelling
Digital Abortion Storytelling in the Twittersphere
Campaigns
The US: #ihadansbortion, #shoutyourabortion, #youknowme
Ireland—#twowomentravel
Brazil—#precisamosfalarsobreaborto
Whose Story Is It Anyway? Celebrities, Essentialism, and Linguistic Perspectives
Celebrities and Journalists
Essentialism
Hashtag Language
Conclusions
References
8: Storytime in the Craft Beer Bar: Narratives, Gobbets and Segments
Introduction
Background and Method
Beer Stories
Story One—Gobbets in Process
Story Two—The (anti)Pragmatics of Craft Beer Storytelling
Story 3—Authenticity and Pragmatics
Implications for Storytime in the Craft Beer Bar
Concluding Thoughts
Appendix 1
Black Sheep
Timothy Taylor’s Landlord
References
9: Arbitrage and Autopoiesis in Police Sergeants’ Stories: More Than “Canteen Culture”
Author’s Note
Beyond Canteen Culture
Methods
The Sergeant’s Story
Analysing the Sergeant’s Story
Autopoietic Story
References
10: Restorying Trauma: Child Sexual Abuse
Storytelling and Trauma
The Power of Storytelling
Concluding Thoughts
References
11: Personal and Ethnic Bildungen: Cross-cultural Storytelling in Singaporean-British Writer PP Wong’s The Life of a Banana
Overview
Storytelling: Breaking Silence and Restoring Ethnic Subjectivity
Storytelling: Intergenerational and Intercultural Reconnection
Concluding Thoughts
References
12: Telling Stories, Building Bridges and Constructing Milton Keynes: Storytelling Practice and Research Working Together
Storying Milton Keynes
Telling Stories
Building Bridges
Constructing Place
References
13: The Personal Statement: A Tool for Developing the Pedagogical Potential of Storytelling in Business Management Education?
Staking a Small Claim for Story-based, Passion-inspired Learning in BME
The STEP UP to Business Module
What Did the Students Think?
A New Idea: The Personal Statement
Conclusion
Reflective Postscript
References
