Full Description
This book explores how narratives have been and can be used to facilitate radical transformations towards a more sustainable future.
Scholars from various disciplines have been increasingly utilizing social and cultural narratives to understand personal, social, and cultural transformations. These narratives offer guiding principles for achieving personal, social, and cultural transformations. Drawing on various fields such as psychoanalysis, psychology, sociology, technology, cultural studies, and related areas, this book presents different perspectives on narratives in situations of transformation, exploring both commonalities and differences. The interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research that underpins this book emphasizes the co-creation of knowledge between political, academic and civil society actors, and therefore necessitates shared narratives that can foster common problem-solving strategies. Shared narratives also play a crucial role in legitimizing goals by supporting pluralistic value- and norm-integration.
Offering new insights on how interdisciplinary research and therapeutic practice can assist individuals, groups, and even entire cultures in facilitating radical transformations towards more peaceful and sustainable living conditions, this book will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of sociology, psychology, technology, cultural studies, and related areas. It was originally published as a special issue of Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research.
Contents
Introduction: Narratives for personal and collective transformations 1. A study of spontaneous narrative formation: coronavirus and narratives of doom 2. Transformation through transcendence 3. From personal to transpersonal? An evolutionary stance and 'self' as the centre of narrative gravity 4. Paradoxical nature of narrative in analytical psychotherapy 5. The algebra of the protagonist: sustainability, normativity and storytelling 6. Interactive network visualization on the integration of mindsets and sustainability - creating conditions for emergence through a relational narrative 7. Exploring narrative strategy: the role of narratives in the strategic positioning of organizational change 8. Narratives of fungal-based materials for a new bioeconomy era 9. Smart grids, smart households, smart neighborhoods - contested narratives of prosumage and decentralization in Berlin's urban Energiewend 10. Can a rapid mobility transition appear both desirable and achievable? Reflections on the role of competing narratives for socio-technical change and suggestions for a research agenda 11. Honi the Circle-Maker: an ancient narrative for creating temenos in challenging times
