UID:
almahu_9949385463202882
Umfang:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781000467260
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1000467260
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9780367808426
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0367808420
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9781000467239
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1000467236
Inhalt:
Storylistening makes the case for the urgent need to take stories seriously in order to improve public reasoning. Dillon and Craig provide a theory and practice for gathering narrative evidence that will complement and strengthen, not distort, other forms of evidence, including that from science. Focusing on the cognitive and the collective, Dillon and Craig show how stories offer alternative points of view, create and cohere collective identities, function as narrative models, and play a crucial role in anticipation. They explore these four functions in areas of public reasoning where decisions are strongly influenced by contentious knowledge and powerful imaginings: climate change, artificial intelligence, the economy, and nuclear weapons and power. Vivid performative readings of stories from The Ballad of Tam-Lin to The Terminator demonstrate the insights that storylistening can bring and the ways it might be practised. The book provokes a reimagining of what a public humanities might look like, and shows how the structures and practices of public reasoning can evolve to better incorporate narrative evidence. Storylistening aims to create the conditions in which the important task of listening to stories is possible, expected, and becomes endemic. Taking the reader through complex ideas from different disciplines in ways that do not require any prior knowledge, this book is an essential read for policymakers, political scientists, students of literary studies, and anyone interested in the public humanities and the value, importance, and operation of narratives.
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Author notes -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Definition of terms -- Story -- Public reasoning -- Evidence -- Rationales -- Case study selection -- Story selection for performative readings -- Structure and contents -- 1 Points of view -- Introduction -- Function description and evidence -- The narrative-empathy-altruism hypothesis (NEAH) -- Problems with the NEAH -- Empirical studies of the NEAH -- From empathy to points of view -- Performative readings -- Climate change and the Earth system -- AI and anthropomorphisation -- Alien points of view -- Nuclear attack and the identifiable victim -- The child -- Consequences -- Framing and points of view -- Scale-up and metonymic legitimacy -- Narrative deficits -- The humanities expert -- 2 Identities -- Introduction -- Function description and evidence -- Stories and individual identities -- Stories and collective identities -- Power and normativity -- Performative readings -- Historical examples -- Modelling collective identity systems -- Indigenous stories -- Apocalyptic stories -- Researcher collectives -- Consequences -- Narrative networks and identifying publics -- Challenges and new research -- Narrative literacy -- Narrative norms and narrative lock-in -- 3 Modelling -- Introduction -- Function description and evidence -- Models as functional tools -- The DEKI account of scientific representation -- Stories as narrative models -- The cognitive value of models -- Performative readings -- Identifying the relevant story -- Identifying the target system -- Identifying the modelling mode -- mimesis or anticipation -- The global and the local -- Generality, particularity, complementarity -- Consequences -- Pluralistic evidence base -- Synthesis -- Interdisciplinarity.
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Long-term relationships -- 4 Anticipation -- Introduction -- Function description and evidence -- Stories and scenarios -- Stories as Futures Studies techniques -- Science fiction and Futures Studies -- Anticipatory narrative models -- Performative readings -- Modelling Futures Studies -- Prediction and anticipation -- Stories as data -- Decolonising futures -- Pathways, risk, adaptation -- Consequences -- Evolving structures of public reasoning -- Evolving the humanities -- Narrative responsibility -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Dillon, Sarah. Storylistening ISBN 0367406748
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780367406745
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9780367808426
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367808426
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