In this article, I suggest that narratives’ importance for social change may be understood by examining specific elements of narrative syntax — key rhetorical tropes within stories, and story genres. I argue that these stylistic elements generate social connections that themselves support and stimulate social change. I use Young’s (2006) theorisation of responsibility and global justice in terms of connection, to suggest how narratives may support or generate progressive social change. I then examine narrative tropes and genres of similarisation and familiarisation at work in narratives produced around the HIV pandemic, and the limits of those tropes and genres for supporting and catalysing social change.
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Ferguson, Matthew R.
2024. Internationalizing higher education with Thainess: a narrative case study of a rural-based university in Thailand. International Journal of Leadership in Education 27:2 ► pp. 449 ff.
Graziano, Matthew James & Marika Maris
2024. “I Couldn’t Say My Own Name:” Identity Narratives of Dominican American Women. American Journal of Qualitative Research 8:1 ► pp. 198 ff.
Grove, Nicola
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Hyvärinen, Matti
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Lamola, M. John
2019. BREAKING THE GRIDLOCK OF THE AFRICAN POSTCOLONIAL SELF-IMAGINATION. Angelaki 24:2 ► pp. 48 ff.
Shepherd, Jane
2022. ‘We can’t be perfect all the time’: Life with HIV before antiretrovirals: A narrative analysis of early published stories by women with HIV in the United Kingdom. Women's Health 18 ► pp. 174550572210787 ff.
Squire, Corinne
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