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Abstract: “Let me tell you a story,” interlocutors repeatedly said to anthropologist Monika Kolodziej (in this issue) when she inquired about interethnic relations in a province in northwest China. Kolodziej tried to understand the people she engaged with: she wanted to know how they lived and what mattered to them. She did not ask for stories but found conversations in the field to be punctuated by them. She is not alone in this observation. Ethnographic fieldwork is often full of stories; it thrives on them. Practices of storytelling are foundational to sociality and sociability in a given social group. They facilitate social understanding and represent sites of identity negotiation. This special issue centers on this ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: While conducting fieldwork researching trends shaping the identity of young Muslims in the multiethnic social landscape of Qinghai Province in northwest China, I came across a conspicuous pattern of storytelling. In many cases, my respondents would tell me stories, rather than answer questions directly. This pattern usually involved people justifying their own personal attitudes by relating secondhand narratives of the lives of unnamed friends and relatives. This response tactic became particularly intriguing to me when I found that it most often emerged in relation to questions about interethnic relations, marriage in particular. After expanding my research to include respondents of a similar age from other major ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Organizational life is full of meetings, and meetings are full of talk (Brown et al.; Czarniawska, Narrating; Schwartzman; Wenger). In recent decades, with a focus on organizing (Weick, Psychology of Organizing) and on organizational culture (Schein), processes of interaction among co-workers have risen to the fore in organizational research. This resulted in a growing interest in the role of narrative in organizations. Two broad strands of research have become prominent in this respect. First, researchers collected stories of institutional identity, including organizational myths, gossip stories, and stories that went against the grain (i.e., counternarratives or alternative narratives) (Czarniawska, Narrating; ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The Yemeni scholar and poet ‘Abd Allāh al-Baraddūnī,1 who lived during the period 1929–1999, argues that to obtain a deeper understanding of a society, it is important to look beyond the formal production of history and official literature and consider popular fables, songs, folk poems, and proverbs, which reflect popular narratives that are usually obscured and neglected. The importance of his work is crucially linked to his personal background and the environment that he was surrounded by, which had a decisive influence on his knowledge and hence his perspective on society. He came from a simple background and witnessed the period under the Mutawakkilite kingdom and the time after the revolution of 1962. As a ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: “I want anyone traveling on the U4 to think of me because I was there from day one. I made so many drawings, drew so many plans, and worked so many night shifts.” These words were shared with me in an interview with a woman who came with her toddler son from Rijeka, Croatia, to Vienna, Austria, in her early twenties as a so-called guest worker. After taking several unskilled jobs, she trained as a technical assistant and then worked on the construction of Vienna’s subway line U4. This was one of many stories of placemaking I encountered in the field, including memories of tangible and visible changes to the cityscape, particularly the narrative of labor migrants’ contribution to the city’s infrastructure through ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: When looking back on life and reminiscing about childhood experiences, narrators reflect on the past from various perspectives and make new interpretations of past events and the meaning they have for their lives (Linde). Elderly narrators often wonder about how they acted as children, offering an adult’s interpretation of the events and experiences of a child’s world (Koskinen-Koivisto, Her Own Worth, 133–42, Savolainen, “Tellability”). It is crucial to note that a child’s perspective is substantially different than that of an adult’s because it focuses on concreteness and small details and often contains elements of fantasy and play (see Siim). In the retrospective reminiscence, the experiences and voices of a ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The interweave of space and politics in Istanbul has reached a remarkable dimension with the city council’s increased responsibilities for infrastructure and housing. Construction cranes are omnipresent in the megacity, and neighborhoods are being transformed by the government’s urban renewal program, which has recently become a buzzword for the public. Unlike a widely accepted modernization project, urban renewal has caused much stir and resistance in affected neighborhoods, for its neoliberal orientation has led to forced displacement and indebtedness. Indeed, the degree of sensibility toward urban renewal is high to such an extent that, when I took some photographs in the neighborhoods I visited, I was assumed ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Fairy tales function as models in their construction, content, language and idea (Niebrzegowska-Bartmińska 98), which leads to the conclusion that fairy tales, as works of art in educational space, should be considered through the lens of:▪ their structure,▪ the elements that distinguish them from other literary texts, and▪ developmental aspects.Important for me was the order of interpreting a cultural text and the resulting relationship between the text, the learner, and the (future) teacher. In the process of interpretation (as well as in the process of designing lessons based on fairy tales), one can depart from the beaten path into an area where success depends on curiosity, creativity, and courage (Jones and ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Seema had lived in the United States for several years when I met her in 2018.1 Kidnapping threats prevented her from returning to Afghanistan. When we first talked, Seema only knew that I was collecting refugees’ stories about their displacement from Afghanistan and resettlement in the United States. One of the first questions I asked was where she had lived in Afghanistan. She replied, “Dasht-e Barchi,” a sprawling, ethnic Hazara neighborhood of narrow lanes and mud-walled homes in the southwestern edges of Kabul, whose population had swelled over the past decade as violence proliferated in other parts of the country. Seema immediately told about how she remembered a time several years before when crowds had ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Bijan Kanti Sarkar was 20 years old in 1955 when he migrated from East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) to West Bengal, India.1 His parents decided not to migrate, and they stayed in their village, Dighnagar, in Jessore district, where Sarkar was born. After migrating, he did not get any chance to revisit his birthplace; hence, he never saw his parents again. At present, Sarkar resides in Chinsurah, West Bengal. I interviewed him in his residence.2 During the interview, as Sarkar remembered the day he left for West Bengal, his voice choked up a little. With tears in his eyes, he recollected how his younger brother waved goodbye. “And I never went back to my home,” he lamented, and he spread out his arms to mark ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-27T00:00:00-05:00
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