Narratives and social change : social reality in contemporary society / Emiliana Mangone.

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Narratives and social change : social reality in contemporary society / Emiliana Mangone.

9783030945657 (electronic bk.)
3030945650 (electronic bk.)
9783030945640 (print)

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.

English

1 online resource (xv, 184 pages) : illustrations.

10.1007/978-3-030-94565-7 doi

HM831

303.4

This book is an important contribution to narrative research and highlights how narratives can produce social change. The author demonstrates this through an analysis of concepts like future, uncertainty and risk, both in terms of individual impact and as collective forms of social life. The book reconstructs the relationships between future, uncertainty and risk through everyday how narratives exert power over individual and social life by influencing individual or collective decisions and choices. Narratives also change future prospects, thus producing social change. Some of the examples the author draws out for discussion are - in specific - the narration of the migration flows in the Mediterranean Sea, and the narration of the pandemic emergency from COVID-19. The result of different narratives has been the emergence of new ideologies and of a complex series of dynamics in which the local ends up becoming global and vice versa. Highly topical and interdisciplinary in its approach, this book is of interest to researchers and students of the sociology of culture and communication, media and communication studies, social and cultural psychology and cultural anthropology.

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