Ken Plummer 
Narrative Power [PDF ebook] 
The Struggle for Human Value

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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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Table des matières

Prologue: Going Backstage
OVERTURE: In the Beginning
1 Narratives of Suffering: Six Stories in Search of a Better World
ACT I Setting Scenes: Narrative Power as a Way of Seeing
2 Narrative Actions of Power
3 Narrative Power as a Struggle for Human Value
ACT 2 Locating Tensions: The Fragility of Narrative
4 Narrative Inequalities
5 Narrative Digitalism
6 Narrative States
7 Narrative Wisdom
8 Narrative Contingencies
ACT 3 Moving On: Acts of Narrative Hope
9 Caring for Narrative Futures: Towards a Politics of Narrative Humanity
Notes
References
Index

A propos de l’auteur

Ken Plummer is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex.

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Langue Anglais ● Format PDF ● Pages 200 ● ISBN 9781509517046 ● Taille du fichier 2.3 MB ● Maison d’édition John Wiley & Sons ● Publié 2019 ● Édition 1 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 7028121 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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