Search results for "narrative"

Risk narrations and perceptions in the COVID-19 time. A discourse analysis through the Italian press

2020

This paper explores how the risk related to the pandemic of COVID-19 was managed, narrated and perceived in Italy during the lockdown phase, from February until June 2020. To reach this aim, the study provides a discourse analysis of three main level: the official institutional discourses declaimed by the government and the health authority; the risk narration spread through the diaphragm of the Italian press, and specifically through two of the most-read newspapers in Italy (Repubblica and Corriere della Sera) and their related weeklies (Venerdì di Repubblica and Sette); finally, the diverse reactions and perceptions to the risk coming from the most affected and most vulnerable subjects, c…

Disability, illness and physical activity: a (post)qualitative research

2019

This PhD thesis is an assemblage of papers addressing 1) disability, illness and physical activity; and 2) (post)qualitative inquiry. The thesis tackles the case of Patrick, a man living with poor prognostic cancer and paraplegia. Overall, it examines in-depth how narrative and material forces acted by shaping Patrick’s struggle of becoming, and which role physical activity played in his life post-diagnosis. Data was obtained from life-story interviews, participant-produced images in different formats and object interviews, as well as three years of informal interactions with Patrick. The selection of data collection techniques was subjected to ethical considerations meant to preserve Patri…

Articulating the Practice Architectures of Collaborative Research Practice

2016

This chapter explores a collaborative practice of comparative data analysis through the researching activities of four researchers from Australia and Finland. We interrogate the ontological and empirical reality we experienced while engaged in a practice of analysing narrative data on mentoring. In this chapter, we are not reporting on the outcomes of our analysis of mentoring practice; instead we focus on our collaborative engagement, articulating the practice architectures of our research practice. This collaborative research practice was pre-figured by: (1) philosophical traditions instituted through a theory of practice architectures; and (2) normalised practices of researching mentorin…

Mariano Cabrerizo: literary initiatives and liberal energy in the time of Fernando VII

2018

La actividad del editor Mariano Cabrerizo ilumina el itinerario de la novela y la burguesía. El espíritu exaltado del Trienio lo condujo a la cárcel y al destierro, lo que supuso un duro golpe para la producción editorial y la economía familiar. Pero gracias a la inteligencia y al oportunismo pudo relanzar su negocio por medio de la Colección de novelas, poderoso instrumento en la difusión de la narrativa europea y española. Las suscripciones de los particulares, de las grandes instituciones y de las bibliotecas privadas ayudaron a consolidar las iniciativas comerciales y literarias de Cabrerizo. Los avatares personales condujeron al famoso editor a una nueva situación de bonanza económica …

Tertiary teachers with dyslexia as narrators of their professional life and identity

2015

Profiling Evil from Narrative Journalism: the troubling cohabitation between the brutal and the human

2018

Este artículo analiza el retrato poliédrico de la maldad que ofrecen los catorce perfiles sobre asesinos múltiples, torturadores, traficantes o violadores incluidos en la obra colectiva Los malos (Guerriero, 2015). El estudio aborda desde el comparatismo periodístico-literario cómo la combinación de las técnicas de investigación y acceso a la información del periodismo y las posibilidades expresivas y compositivas de la literatura favorecen el acercamiento a lo inaprensible. Los retratos analizados exploran las zonas oscuras de la condición humana, indagan en la tenebrosa dualidad de personas comunes y corrientes capaces de alcanzar grados de atrocidad extremos. Lo hacen desde una óptica mu…

Stat, kyrka och familj: Innehållet i allmogebarns uppfostran i Finland i början av 1900-talet

2020

The article presents a picture of the relationship between the public and private targets of upbringingof Finnish common people’s children in early 20th-century Finland. The statutes focusing on childrencontain the information regarding the expectations of the society. The documents date back to the periodfrom 1442 to 1917, when Finland gained independence. However, the legislation influenced people’sattitudes up to the 20th century. The narrative material consists of life stories, including episodes withproverbial speech and interpretations of proverbs. It is composed of two collections from the FolkloreArchives of Finnish Literature Society, which provide information about the childhood i…

Proclivity of sexual harassment and blame attribution in journalism: experiential narratives of ghanaian female journalists

2021

Though the proclivity of sexual-related harassments in African journalism is high, the rates of reporting of these incidences and empirical studies are low. Using a gendered approach, the study presents and exploratory inquiry into the lived experiences and impressions of Ghanaian female journalists about incidences of sexual harassments. The study examines how female journalists experience both newsroom harassments and on-assignment sexual harassments including the role they play in quid pro quo exchanges, which are relevant aspects of sexual harassments in the profession. The study also looks at blame attribution strategies female journalists adopt in assigning blame for sexual harassment…

Encuentro de saberes: Huellas de memoria pluriversa y descolonización de la Universidad contemporánea

2018

This paper studies the Encounter of Knowledge as a project that, by welcoming mestres and mestras of ancestral knowledge into universities, contributes to decolonize higher education, broadening its field of memory. Based on a systematization exercise, we established a theoretical dialogue with Bajtin and Bejamin. Based on the participation of four mestres -Lucely Pío, raicera del Cerrado, Mãe Lu and Tata Mutá Imé, religious leaders of Candomblé and the political leader and shaman Álvaro Tukano of the Tukano nation- we show how the project promotes in the contemporary Brazilian university a space of mnemic pluriversity, capable of activating diverse narrative planes (biographical, political…

From Mobile Crimes to Crimes of Mobility

2020

Piipponen, Mäntymäki and Rodi-Risberg suggest that many contemporary crime narratives across the globe host a heightened interest in diverse and ambiguous mobilities, border crossings and borderlands. They propose that such mobilities and crossings reflect on recent sociocultural developments on local and global levels and communicate specific geopolitical anxieties. They position their own mobilities research perspective within existing crime fiction scholarship, especially within the so-called transnational and spatial turns. Introducing some key observations of mobilities research, they suggest that mobility can be considered both as an object of study in its own right and a critical len…