Speaking of violence : the politics and poetics of narrative dynamics in conflict resolution / Sara Cobb.

Cobb, Sara B.
Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, [2013];©2013
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Part of the series Explorations in narrative psychology;Explorations in narrative psychology.
Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • The Pragmatics of Narrative Dynamics in Conflict Processes. Speaking of violence — Conflict narrative structure and relational dynamics — The evolution of conflict narratives. — Critical Narrative Theory: a Lens for the Analysis of Conflict. Radicalized narratives — Power dynamics of conflict narratives: towards a critical narrative theory — Witnessing the speaking subject within conflict narrative regimes. — Aesthetics a an Ethics of Conflict Resolution Practice. Aesthetic criteria for humanizing narratives — Aesthetic ethics as narrative practice — Conflict resolution as narrative practice: emerging better-formed stories — Narrative poetics as a foundation for politics in conflict resolution.
  • This text takes the notion of ‘narrative’ as foundational to conflict analysis and resolution. Distinct from conflict theories that rely on accounts of attitudes or perceptions in the heads of individuals, this narrative perspective presumes that meaning, structured and organized as narrative processes is the location for both analysis of conflict, as well as intervention.

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