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The Interface Work of Narrative

Beth Cross1
01 Jun 2010-Culture and Psychology (SAGE Publications)-Vol. 16, Iss: 2, pp 175-194
TL;DR: In this article, a group discussion in terms of preceding ethnographic material that contextualises it within a larger socio-educational history is analysed, and a mapping methodology first traces the power dynamics and different moments of dialogical activity across the discussion and then details the stances depicted within narratives which have a correspondence to Hermans' (2001a, 2001b) I-stances.
Abstract: The article explores further Lyra (1999) and Hermans’ (1999, 2001a, 2001b) glossing of complexity terminology within analysis of identity formation, taking a particular interest in differing uses of narrative within identity negotiations. Lyra (1999) draws attention to the importance of using an extended time frame to assess the power dynamics involved within any communicative exchange. The fragments of speech often under consideration in academic texts often preclude an appreciation of such groundwork. This article looks at a group discussion in terms of preceding ethnographic material that contextualises it within a larger socio-educational history. A mapping methodology first traces the power dynamics and different moments of dialogical activity (Lyra, 1999) across the discussion and then details the stances depicted within narratives which have a correspondence to Hermans’ (2001a, 2001b) I-stances. Initially, condensed narratives confirm each other. Subsequently, partial versions of narratives voice d...
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04 Mar 2010
TL;DR: Recording of presentation introducing narrative analysis, outlining what it is, why it can be a useful approach, how to do it and where to find out more.
Abstract: Recording of presentation introducing narrative analysis, outlining what it is, why it can be a useful approach, how to do it and where to find out more. Presentation given at methods@manchester seminar at University of Manchester on 4 March 2010.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that dialogical philosophy offers psychology a way to conceptualize and study human experience such that the notion of psyche is preserved and enriched, and discuss the implications of dialogism for theories of the self.
Abstract: The authors argue that dialogical philosophy, and particularly the work of the Bakhtin circle, offers psychology a way to conceptualize and study human experience such that the notion of psyche is preserved and enriched. The authors first introduce the work of the Bakhtin circle and then briefly outline some of the most influential theories of self and psyche. The implications of dialogism for theories of the self are then discussed, focusing on six basic principles of dialogical thought – namely, the principles of relationality, dynamism, semiotic mediation, alterity, dialogicality, and contextuality. Together, these principles imply a notion of psyche that is neither an isolated homunculus nor a disembodied discourse, but is, rather, a temporally unique, agentive enactment that is sustained within, rather than against, the tensions between individual and social, material and psychological, multiple and unified, stable and dynamic. The authors also discuss what this dialogical conception of psyche implie...

54 citations


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  • ..., Cresswell, 2009; O’Sullivan-Lago & de Abreu, 2010), multiculturality (König, 2009), phenomenological experience (Cunha & Gonçalves, 2009), child development (Lyra, 2010), and narrative development (Cross, 2010)....

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  • ...…(Gillespie & Zittoun, 2010), self-identity (Guimarães, 2010), immigration (e.g., Cresswell, 2009; O’Sullivan-Lago & de Abreu, 2010), multiculturality (König, 2009), phenomenological experience (Cunha & Gonçalves, 2009), child development (Lyra, 2010), and narrative development (Cross, 2010)....

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on how to study narrative-dialogical processes from the perspective of complexity and suggest that the reconstruction of a person's self-narrative depends on the structure of relations between i-moments, rather than on the mere accumulation of imoments.
Abstract: This commentary focuses on Cross’s (2010, this issue) work as an opportunity to elaborate upon how to study narrative-dialogical processes from the perspective of complexity. We start by elaborating on the notion that narrative development is a multidimensional activity that extends through several organizational levels and on the limitations of conventional research methods for narrative analysis. Following this, we focus on our experience of research on narrative change in psychotherapy in order to exemplify this point. From our perspective, clients’ problematic self-narratives can be challenged by the emergence of innovative ways of thinking and behaving that the client narrates during the therapeutic conversation (innovative moments or i-moments). Our results suggest that the reconstruction of a person’s self-narrative depends on the structure of relations between i-moments, rather than on the mere accumulation of i-moments. Therefore, we are particularly interested in looking at how clusters of i-mom...

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Cites background from "The Interface Work of Narrative"

  • ...Given this complexity and multitude it seems very likely that no specific level will give us a complete account of the ‘role of narrative within ongoing identity formation’ (Cross, 2010)....

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  • ...Our commentary on Cross (2010) focused on some of her contributions to the study of narrative-dialogical processes from the perspective of complexity....

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TL;DR: The role of participatory research with young people has enjoyed a decade of sustained development including the development of a range of embodied and visual methodologies as mentioned in this paper. But throughout this period there has also been a sustained critique of the UK Government's citizenship agenda for young people.
Abstract: Participatory research with young people has enjoyed a decade of sustained development including the development of a range of embodied and visual methodologies. Much of this has been in the service of a participatory citizenship agenda, as articulated in the Every Child Matters agenda in England, in the work of the UK's Children's Commissioners and through service provider commitment to consultation with young people more generally. However throughout this period there has also been a sustained critique of the UK Government's citizenship agenda for young people, and consequently of the role of participatory research and consultation processes within this. Much of this critique questions what kind of citizenship young people are being asked to participate in, juxtaposing the construction of ‘inclusive’ participatory spaces with an increasingly stratified and exclusionary context for participation in the social and economic arenas of society. This article reflects on this debate using material from a two-y...

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Cites methods from "The Interface Work of Narrative"

  • ...Drawing on insights from both these perspectives the approach I adopt is based on the premise of dialogical systems in contrast to dialectical or other deterministic models (Cross 2010)....

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Dissertation
01 Sep 2016
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on a study of the experiences and perspectives of four men working as SEN coordinators in primary schools in England, based on interviews between September 2013 and November 2014.
Abstract: This thesis reports on a study of the experiences and perspectives of four men working as Special Educational Need Coordinators (SENCos) in Primary schools in England, based on interviews between September 2013 and November 2014. Within their schools, SENCos have ‘day-to-day responsibility for the operation of SEN policy and co-ordination of specific provision made to support individual pupils with SEN’ (DfE, 2015, p.108). The role has an historic association with forms of motherly, selfless care and can be seen as a key site of tension as masculine-coded managerial and performative forces colonise SEN provision. There is currently no published research exploring men’s experiences of working as SENCos. The study adopts a ‘relational materialist’ ontology (Hultman and Lenz Taguchi, 2010), drawing on new material feminist (e.g. Taylor, 2013) and sociomaterialist (e.g. Fenwick and Edwards, 2013) approaches, and inspired by the work of Karen Barad and Gilles Deleuze. In line with this thinking, the research engages a ‘material storytelling’ sensibility (e.g. Strand, 2012) and is directed by a post-qualitative approach to data analysis (Lather and St. Pierre, 2013). This study pays close attention to how material objects (folders, filing cabinets, suits and ties, photographs, desks, et al.) are entangled with discourses of gender, teaching and SEN with/in the men’s narrative becomings. Thinking with relational material-discursive assemblages allows a sense of how these men emerge as particular ‘male Primary school SENCo’ subjects that knot around rigid and mutually-informing axes of hegemonic masculinity, heteronormativity, and neoliberal and neoconservative policy imperatives. This has consequences for the iterations of professionalism and care that emerge simultaneously with this ‘male Primary school SENCo’, which has potential to affect/effect the becomings of pupils, colleagues, knowledges and practices within their orbit. The research contributes to and advances the study of male Primary school teachers, SENCos and SEN practice, and develops the use of relational/new materialist theories.

6 citations


Cites background from "The Interface Work of Narrative"

  • ...others, in a moving assemblage (Schipper and Fryzel, 2011), and these clusters of narrative create patterns of likely scenarios (Cross, 2010) which are not just meaningmaking but ‘world-making’ (Boje, 2011)....

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  • ...Such narratives are seen as exploratory devices that probe multiple possible futures (Cross, 2010), suggesting trajectories of unfolding becomings without the limitations of narrative closure (Boje, 2011) – in the case of the stories below, this analysis seeks not to close them down by reading the gender discourses but instead wonders what else is in the process of becoming through them....

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  • ...Here I am going to briefly review examples of such attempts and work towards a post-human, assemblage inspired argument that care is emergent and agentic, and that developing affirmative rather than deconstructive analyses of these teachers’ proto- or ante-narratives (Boje, 2011; Cross, 2010) might enable us to go elsewhere than the gendered grounds of the debate...

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"The Interface Work of Narrative" refers background in this paper

  • ...Abstract The article explores further Lyra (1999) and Hermans’ (1999, 2001a, 2001b) glossing of complexity terminology within analysis of identity formation, taking a particular interest in differing uses of narrative within identity negotiations....

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  • ...What is evident within this diagram is that the oppositional narratives have differing import or to borrow Bakhtin’s terms, a different ‘spin’ as the discussion evolves. In the earlier part of the conversation most of the narratives are shared between Joan and Jackie who fill in the details or echo imitations in a project of building consensus (Themes 1–7). Here narratives seem to serve to condense the portrayal of the issues to a unified version emphasising distrust. In Lyra’s (1999) terms of analysis this could be seen to be the work of establishing mutual grounds for agreement....

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  • ...A keen interest in Bakhtin’s (1981) Dialogic Imagination underpinned this desire to see what interpretive light further exchanges of narratives as ‘utterances’ might shed on those collected so far, particularly as they relate to Hermans’ (2001a, 2001b) question of disjuncture....

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  • ...The next development could be argued to require even more trust, the trust needed to explore the potential of the surplus of vision (Bakhtin, 1990) that exists from their differing vantage points. From this point onward, indicated by the outward facing arrows, there is a more exploratory creative act of examining how other events might form the next moments in their on-going life narratives (Themes 16–22). I would interpret this as illustrating Lyra’s (1999) assertion that the prior moves open up a more creative space and use of each other’s perspectives....

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"The Interface Work of Narrative" refers background in this paper

  • ...They require a linear structure and yet are enlivened by complex connotations, the concrete as well as the affective that Bruner (1986) distinguished....

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04 Mar 2010
TL;DR: Recording of presentation introducing narrative analysis, outlining what it is, why it can be a useful approach, how to do it and where to find out more.
Abstract: Recording of presentation introducing narrative analysis, outlining what it is, why it can be a useful approach, how to do it and where to find out more. Presentation given at methods@manchester seminar at University of Manchester on 4 March 2010.

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"The Interface Work of Narrative" refers methods in this paper

  • ...…methodology was embedded within research that proceeded along established analytic lines searching through participants’ articulation of issues or perspectives to identify common themes, yet paying attention to the detail of the linguistical resources and skills used to do so (Riessman, 1993)....

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  • ...The development of a complexity-based narrative methodology was embedded within research that proceeded along established analytic lines searching through participants’ articulation of issues or perspectives to identify common themes, yet paying attention to the detail of the linguistical resources and skills used to do so (Riessman, 1993)....

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TL;DR: In a rented convent in Santa Fe, a revolution has been brewing: Nobel Laureates in physics and economics such as Murray Gell-Mann and Kenneth Arrow, and pony-tailed graduate students, mathematicians, and computer scientists down from Los Alamos are gathering novel ideas about interconnectedness, coevolution, chaos, structure, and order and forging them into an entirely new, unified way of thinking about nature, human social behavior, life, and the universe itself.
Abstract: In a rented convent in Santa Fe, a revolution has been brewing. The activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics such as Murray Gell-Mann and Kenneth Arrow, and pony-tailed graduate students, mathematicians, and computer scientists down from Los Alamos. They've formed an iconoclastic think tank called the Santa Fe Institute, and their radical idea is to create a new science called complexity. These mavericks from academe share a deep impatience with the kind of linear, reductionist thinking that has dominated science since the time of Newton. Instead, they are gathering novel ideas about interconnectedness, coevolution, chaos, structure, and order - and they're forging them into an entirely new, unified way of thinking about nature, human social behavior, life, and the universe itself. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell - and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today. They want to know why ancient ecosystems often remained stable for millions of years, only to vanish in a geological instant - and what such events have to do with the sudden collapse of Soviet communism in the late 1980s. They want to know why the economy can behave in unpredictable ways that economists can't explain - and how the random process of Darwinian natural selection managed to produce such wonderfully intricate structures as the eye and the kidney. Above all, they want to know how the universe manages to bring forth complex structures such as galaxies, stars, planets, bacteria, plants, animals, and brains. There are commonthreads in all of these queries, and these Santa Fe scientists seek to understand them. Complexity is their story: the messy, funny, human story of how science really happens. Here is the tale of Brian Arthur, the Belfast-born economist who stubbornly pushed his theories of economic ch

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"The Interface Work of Narrative" refers background in this paper

  • ...As Waldrop (1992) has paraphrased it, exploring complexity has required a kind of compromise in which the criteria of certainty and elegance has been foregone in order to gain contextualised approximate understandings....

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