Introduction This article aims to reflect upon the role of narratives in refugee care and the narrative nature of the therapeutic encounter with refugees. The discussion will be based on the distinction between grand narratives in psychotherapy and the hermeneutic-narrative approach in refugee care. It will be claimed here that psychotherapy as part of a societal discourse commonly uses expert knowledge in the form of grand narratives, defined as totalising and dominating structures of knowledge/power. It will also be claimed that understanding psychotherapy
Interest in the contribution narrative can make across many disciplines has been booming in recent years, but its impact in social work has been limited. It has mainly been used in therapeutic intervention such as narrative therapy, social work education or personal accounts. This is the first book to extend the narrative lens to explore the contribution of narrative to social work values and ethics, social policy and our understanding of the self in social, cultural and political context. The book firstly sets out theoretical concerns and then applies them to specific areas of social work, including child protection, mental health and disability. The author argues that narrative is a richly textured approach to social work that can enhance both theory and practice. As such the book will be of interest to social work students, practitioners and educators, policy makers and those interested in the application of narrative to professional practice.
Criminology has been reluctant to embrace fictional narratives as a tool for understanding, explaining and reducing crime and social harm.
In this philosophical enquiry, McGregor uses examples from films, television, novels and graphic novels to demonstrate the extensive criminological potential of fiction around the world. Building on previous studies of non-fiction narratives, the book is the first to explore the ways criminological fiction provides knowledge of the causes of crime and social harm.
For academics, practitioners and students, this is an engaging and thought-provoking critical analysis that establishes a bold new theory of criminological fiction.
345© The Policy Press • 2011 • ISSN 1744 2648 pr ac tic e Evidence & Policy • vol 7 • no 3 • 2011 • 345–58 • 10.1332/174426411X591780 The illness narratives of health managers: developing an analytical framework Mark Exworthy This paper examines the personal experience of illness and healthcare by health managers through their illness narratives. By synthesising a wider literature of illness narratives and health management, an analytical framework is presented, which considers the impact of illness narratives, comprising the logic of illness narratives, the
197 Voluntary Sector Review • vol 9 • no 2 • 197–214 • © Policy Press 2018 Print ISSN 2040 8056 • Online ISSN 2040 8064 • https://doi.org/10.1332/204080518X15299335540420 Accepted for publication 23 May 2018 • First published online 12 July 2018 research Changing narratives, changing relationships: a new environment for voluntary action? Markus Ketola, M.Ketola@ulster.ac.uk Ulster University, UK Ciaran Hughes Independent researcher In the context of shifting policy approaches and decreasing state funding, contemporary government policy narratives are
Contested spaces and sectarian narratives in post-uprising Bahrain Sossie Kasbarian and Simon Mabon Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University, Lancaster, England ABSTRACT In early February 2011, people took to the streets of Manama, Bahrain, protesting against the political system of the Al Khalifa monarchy. Although initially occurring along non-sectarian lines, the protests were quickly framed as such and, as a consequence, the nature of the protests changed. This article engages with this process of sectarianism, exploring how space
Part ii Global waste discourses and narratives shaping local practices
humanist traditions were at odds in several significant ways, they were sufficiently similar to facilitate a narrative turn in the human sciences as a whole (Squire, Andrews and Tamboukou 2013 ). Matti Hyvärinen ( 2010 ) identifies four distinct stages within this turn, beginning with literary studies in the nineteen sixties, moving to historiography in the nineteen seventies, social research in the nineteen eighties, and culture itself in the nineteen nineties. 2 Catherine Kohler Riessman ( 2002 ) explores the turn in more detail, noting the influence of narrative
Introduction Narrative inquiry is a method of finding the stories we wish to tell others about the impact of the work we do in the community. It is relevant to community work, because the method is highly accessible to the respondents. It seeks deep and rich accounts of experience and is consistent with the values of community work, in that it seeks to assist participants to frame their experience rather than asking them interview questions. It is the study of the stories people tell about their lives. Its purpose is to see how participants in interview
