mature individual, mythology and fairy tales are supposed to give way to rational analysis. Within academia this evaluation is common. Natural and social scientists typically disparage ‘anecdotal evidence’. Narratives are seen as optional supplements at
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Practical Judgment, Narrative Experience and Wicked Problems
Leslie Paul Thiele and Marshall Young
Narrative Markers in Pablo Picasso’s Tragicomic Strip The Dream and Lie of Franco
Michael Schuldiner
his trip with Sebastia Junyer to Paris in which narrative was provided. 4 However, Picasso’s most important foray into the world of the comic strip was no doubt his 1937 etching and aquatint, The Dream and Lie of Franco [ Sueño y mentira de Franco
Ambiguous Narratives of World War Technologies in Contemporary Military History Museums
Stephan Jaeger
. They also told specific stories of military and technological success. These narratives tended to thematize aspects of mobilization, the strategies and events of specific campaigns and battles, military leadership, and the heroism of soldiers. At times
Narratives of Socioecological Transition
The Case of the Transition Network in Portugal
Vera Ferreira and António Carvalho
This article analyzes narratives and characteristics of socioecological transitions, drawing on research conducted with members of the Transition Network (TN) in Portugal. The TN was founded in Totnes, United Kingdom, in 2005, by Rob Hopkins, a
Narratives of Development
An Anthropological Investigation into Narratives as a Source of Enquiry in Development Planning
Taapsi Ramchandani
’s success story so far. My findings would inform project plans going forward. I chose to include local narratives in my final report in order to present a holistic picture of how people understood economic development, to whom or to what they attributed the
A Vision of the Viewer
Situating Narration in the Fiction Film in the Context of Theories of Narrative Comprehension
Joseph P. Magliano and James A. Clinton
Narrative comprehension results from building a durable mental representation of the narrative events (e.g., Kintsch 1988 ). The vast majority of narrative comprehension research has been within the text domain rather than visual narratives
Refining the Comics Form
Chris Gavaler
formal qualities only, extant definitions are problematic because their constituent terms – ‘images’, ‘sequence’, ‘narrative’ – are themselves ambiguous. What, for example, differentiates two juxtaposed ‘images’ from an ‘image’ composed of two parts? In
Narratives of Ambivalence
The Ethics of Vulnerability and Agency in Research with Girls in the Sex Trade
Alexandra Ricard-Guay and Myriam Denov
. While it is important to acknowledge the abuses committed against minors in the sex trade, this one-dimensional narrative may come into opposition with how the girls themselves perceive their experiences, and may actually hinder an understanding of the
Narrating the Second World War
History Textbooks and Nation Building in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine
Lina Klymenko
and linguistic components of discourse about the Second World War in Ukrainian school history textbooks. 6 In contrast to these studies, this article conceptualizes a history textbook as an assembly of narratives, and explores how a narrative of a
The Shadows of Knowability
Reading between Opaque Narrative and Transparent Text
Younes Saramifar
something that may not be there at all. Am I being transparent enough in questioning the opaque aura of an object? The torch of ember and its puzzling knowability are my exemplars, serving to open the question of opacity and transparency in narrativity. I