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A review of the current literature shows that by the age of two and a half (and probably earlier), children have already acquired a rich working knowledge of human intentionality and goal-directed action (Stein & Albro 1997: 7; Mandler 1998). The paper focuses on the ways in which children use this knowledge to tell stories from pictures. The story is the description of the actions performed by animate actors. We distinguish the main actors (protagonists in the narrative line) and the background actors (participants in the narrative field) who can observe and interpret what is going on in the main action. So the narrative text contains not only the action presented by the story-teller (landscape of action) but also how this action is interpreted by the story characters (landscape of consciousness). They are all thinking minds who can think similarly or differently about the plot. And the narrator uses characters' minds to produce different representations of the story (Bokus 1998, 2000). The narrator can confront one interpretation with another, and a) makes choices of the "true" representation of the main action (in doing this the child plays the role of the omniscient and omnipresent story-teller who is directly in touch with the ontology of the story), or b) presents a possible but not a certain story reality (the listener is not told how things are but rather how they seem to be). Therefore we can speak about the interplay of the narrator's mind and the minds of story characters in a kind of internal narrator's dialogue. The storyteller creates different minds and alternative ways of interpreting the main action. Also shown are examples of such inter-mind phenomena in the stories told by preschool children. Keywords: Child Discourse, Dual Narrative Landscape, Narrative Line, Narrative Field, Theory of Mind.

As one of the most influential events of the Western world, the French Revolution has been the topic of countless works of literature, both fictional and non- fictional. In recent years, the events, figures and geography of the French Revolution has served as an inspiration for authors in a new genre of fantasy, known as gunpowder or flintlock fantasy. Taking novels of Django Wexler’s Shadow Campaigns series as an example, this thesis establishes the basic tenets of this genre based on the theory of the fantastic. It also discusses the similarities between the various elements of the novels and their historical counterparts. Finally, the thesis discusses various questions regarding the fundamental principles of history as well as its relationship with the fantastic. Through this, the thesis demonstrates that historical fantasy is a suitable vessel for fictional portrayal of historic events, despite the criticisms of its detractors.

High-impedance faults in power distribution systems is a lasting problem with decades of steady investigation. Due to the complexity of the problem, the field can also be challenging to navigate. Although there exist surveys of the field in the literature, it is not easy to find a comprehensive contextualization of how and when the field developments unfolded. This paper presents the historical narrative of the progress and developments based on the most cited papers since the inception of the field. The accounts are not limited to archaic and obsolete works. They are all contextualized from the seminal papers to contemporary methods and related technology. Quantitative figures on the survey of the methods and relevant knowledge gaps are also discussed at the closing of the paper.

This article aims for revisiting the terrorism studies from different perspective. The terror attacks itself cannot be hundred percent zero but it just fluctuated trend. More specifically, terrorism always adaptive in following trends. While terror attacks still to target innocent civilians, the perpetrators could be closest relatives and neighbors. The way terror attack to reach out that group of people basically shows the silent role of returning foreign fighters (RFF)/returnees nurturing dan breeding terror ideologies. By using critical literature review especially historical narrative analysis, this study wants to examine the current terror trend that utilizes social media. It can spread terror narration and also affecting people to join. The way to analyze data is making clear connection from each literature. The findings of this study are: the RFF is adept at social media in nurturing terror ideologies and then making their home country and new terrorist cells to be breeding grounds.

One of the safest and most effective ways, used by Russian Federation to transmit harmful propaganda, both inside and outside of Ukraine, with intention of igniting public unrest and conflict within the country, is influencing the historical consciousness as a part of mass consciousness, both in context of its own citizens and Ukrainian citizens, as well as the international community. To put this plan into reality, Russian Federation has developed, formed and realized a very aggressive historical doctrine. Analysis and exposure of this historical doctrine, its final goal, focuses and tasks, as well as its main methods of realization in modern, geopolitical context is one of the top priority tasks to ensure national security of Ukraine. It concerns Ukrainian participation in a prolonged hybrid war, in which Russian Federation actively utilizes political, economic, information’s perception psychological, cyber and military methods. Historic doctrine as a modern phenomenon is a method of ensuring political, cultural, and political or any other loyalty of big social entities, as well as securing ideological and political control over said entities. The most important trait of the historical doctrine is usage of history in internal politics, law practice, and ideological sphere, in diplomatic and military conflicts. An aggressive historical doctrine is developing in Russian Federation, with only one task – influencing mass consciousness with a historical narrative that is controlled by the ruling Russian elite. This is done with intention of converting history from an academic subject into a “soft force” weapon for the political battlefield. This historical doctrine has a tendency of intensifying governmental control on historical research, controlling the historical community, increasing criminal responsibility for any historical activity that goes against the narrative (publication of scientific research, speaking out publicly, polemics, etc). One of the most currently relevant aspects of this historical doctrine is its’ usage in the hybrid war with Ukraine, which is of increasing threat to the national security of Ukraine.

This article aims to propose a polyphonic decolonial historical approach to Management and Organization Studies (MOS), relating the theoretical methodological aspects of the historical perspective with the decolonial option. We suggest a conceptual dialogue between the historiographical approach and MOS. We aimed to reflect on the possibilities for improving the organization theory, emphasizing the methodological concern with polyphony in historical studies. As a result, epistemological limitations in the use of history are presented when associated with MOS that is necessary to be overcome. We assume a position of understanding the history composed of narratives as fragmented representations of the past. Also, we articulate the ethical-political option of decoloniality for the co-construction of historical narratives about translocal practical-knowledge in management - towards pluriversal transmodernity. The article contributes to epistemic and methodological (re)orientations engaged in the context of (1) local/regional research-teaching (2) through the theory and practice of management in (3) rescuing the sociocultural identity.

Introduction. The “Shestvia (Procession) Journal” is one of the most common monuments of the historical narrative of the Peter the Great era. This monument has been published many times, but still does not have a scientific publication, and its handwritten tradition has practically not been studied. Methods and materials. This work examines the manuscripts of the “Shestvia Journal” in the funds of the Department of Manuscripts of the National Library of Russia. Analysis. The study of the literary “convoy” of historical collections about Peter the Great makes it possible to establish that the “Shestvia Journal” was assigned a strictly defined place in the narrative about the initial period of the reign of Peter the Great: in 42 collections it was directly connected with the texts of the “Notes” by A.A. Matveev, and only in eight lists had a separate existence. Results. Observations on the manuscripts of the “Shestvia Journal” held in the collections of the Manuscripts Department of the National Library of Russia allow us to hypothesize that the journal was created not as an independent work, but as part of a cycle of texts devoted to the early history of the reign of Peter the Great. This cycle, along with the magazine, included “The Legend of the Conception and Birth of... Emperor Peter the Great”, as well as the work of Count AA. Matveev on the rifle riots of 1682 and 1698.

This paper is a narrative history of European placenaming in the ‘fifth part of the world’ or ‘Oceania’, focusing on the ambiguous toponym ‘Polynesia’. The ‘Southern World’ remained little known an...

This article examines the continuities and discontinuities in the historical trajectory of the commercialisation of places. It outlines a performative approach to understanding how the process of t...

From social work’s early days, African American social workers were engaged in what today is termed as political social work, yet their work is often overlooked in both social work education and the broader retelling of our profession’s history. This article examines the early history of African American political social work, using Lane and Pritzker’s (2018) five domains of political social work. We outline ways in which African American social workers’ lived experiences led them to engage in political social work to support community survival and to challenge injustice during the Black Migration period post-slavery, the Jim Crow Era, and the Civil Rights Movement. Even as broader structural dynamics sought to exclude African Americans from the political arena, dynamic and influential African American social workers laid the groundwork for modern political social work. They politically engaged their communities, lobbied for legislation, worked in the highest levels of government, supported campaigns, and ran and held elective office to ensure that civil rights were given and maintained. This manuscript calls for a shift from social work’s white-dominant historical narrative and curricula (Bell, 2014; DeLoach McCutcheon, 2019) to assertive discussion of the historic roles African American political social work pioneers played in furthering political empowerment and challenging social injustice.

The problem of the "revival" (renaissance) of the Ukrainian statehood has been the focus of attention for centuries. On the other hand, Ukrainian intellectual discourse has not been able formulate an integral and consolidated image of the past. A significant obstacle on this path was the state policy of memory of an ad hoc nature, which was built through a combination of Soviet and Ukrainian approaches to the interpretation of the past. The lack of a unifying historical narrative, the regionalization of history interpretations of Ukraine have fueled interpersonal and interregional hostility within Ukrainian society for decades. It has become a fertile ground for the humanitarian aggression of neighboring countries, aimed at desubjectivation of Ukraine through destruction of historical foundations of statehood in public consciousness of the Ukrainians themselves. The points of their spokesmen are reinforced by arguments of the conservative pro-Ukrainian historians, who, trying to consider the history of Ukrainian statehood in the context of general civilization development, have developed the thesis of “non-historical” Ukrainian nation due to interruption of national existence in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. This approach, as shown in the article, was important for raising attention of global community to the Ukrainian issue in the second half of the twentieth century, even though it did not reflect the real case. After all, even at the time of strengthening of assimilation policy on the part of neighboring states, Ukrainians did not have the interruption of national existence and continued to cultivate diverse ideas of "revival" and development of their own statehood. Such desire was especially evident in the seventeenth century due to active position of the Cossacks, who managed to wield influence on all segments of Ukrainian population, raising it to an armed struggle for their own freedom and statehood. The inability of the Cossacks to fully implement the tasks gave rise to notes of pessimism in the minds of Ukrainians, whose faith in the revival of their own statehood faded away, but never waned at all. Cherishing the former Cossack greatness, Ukrainians, contrary to the assimilationist policy of the ruling nations or stratums, have always found the strength to speak out reminding themselves and the world that “Ukraine`s glory has not died, nor her freedom”, and therefore they will defend their own statehood.

La existencia de una iniciativa popular de reforma constitucional favorece que la Constitución suiza sea reformada de modo habitual. Sin embargo, a pesar de haber experimentado innumerables revisiones parciales y dos revisiones totales (en 1874 y en 1999), los elementos constitucionales fundamentales que definen la identidad del sistema político permanecen inalterables desde 1848, dando lugar a uno de los estados más estables de Europa desde el punto de vista constitucional y, desde luego, al régimen republicano más longevo del Viejo Continente. El presente trabajo explora como el relato histórico es fundamental en la construcción de la identidad constitucional del Estado federal suizo, que se realiza a través de una idea de continuidad con el pasado, que proporciona un fundamento extremadamente sólido para la continuidad del sistema. Para ello, se analiza el período comprendido entre la llegada de la Modernidad política a Suiza con la instauración de la República Helvética, en 1798, hasta la incorporación a la Constitución de la iniciativa popular de reforma constitucional en 1891. Fecha de envío / Submission date: 18/01/2021 Fecha de aceptación / Acceptance date: 11/03/2021

In step with many governments today, the current British government has consistently attacked scholarly efforts to understand imperialism and its legacies. Instead, it foists a historical narrative...

Recent interest in modern climate change has stimulated extensive scientific study into past societal responses to climate variability. However, examining climate change and society as a historical narrative drawing upon politics, economics, and settlement patterns does not provide a direct link between climate and society. Given that most inhabitants of the premodern world engaged in agriculture and/or pastoralism, examining chronological correlations between climate and foodways, not as a historical narrative but as a longterm socioenvironmental process, has the potential to identify direct societal adaptations to a changing environment. From South Greece there is evidence for drier conditions at the end of the Late Bronze Age. Is the disappearance of writing, art, and many known settlements at the end of the Bronze Age an example of collapse in the face of inability to adapt to climate change? This is a difficult question to answer given the coarse resolution of many of our archaeological and climatic datasets. Settlement faunal records suggest that food production systems became increasingly homogenous in Late Bronze Age Greece, potentially due to an elite control over various production systems that promoted intensification of certain products. However, in the first millennium B.C.E., animal husbandry, specifically, and food production systems, more broadly, became more heterogenous, and a proportional increase in goats in areas with less rainfall was likely an adaptive response to the drier climate. This paper examines the adaptive relationship between foodways and climate and argues for a process driven approach when explaining social responses to ancient climate change.

The founding of what has become the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness (SAC) can only be understood properly in the cultural context of its heritage, and the world in which it came to life. The author is the last living founder from an original group that included himself, Professor J. Norman Emerson, and Professor Joseph K. Long at the core, with a somewhat larger group advising. The roots of SAC began during the 1974 annual meetings of the American Anthropology Association in Mexico City, where the idea of the society that became SAC was conceived. This paper is an historical narrative tracing the intellectual lineage of this effort up to the time of SAC's affiliation with the AAA in 1990. It describes the conflicts, schisms, and often wrenching disputes that occurred as the organization struggled to define itself and the balance it wanted between the experiential and the intellectual. The paper also places these events in a larger anthropological context, explaining that a world view which had evolved over decades was breaking down in the 1970s, and describing how painful this process was. The academic birth of SAC, the 1974 Rhine-Swanton Symposium on Parapsychology and Anthropology, AAA Session 703, was only one manifestation of this shift. An even larger vortex of struggle centered on the challenge represented by Carlos Castaneda and his writings. Through a series of best selling books, including the publication of his dissertation for the anthropology department of UCLA, Castaneda, had attacked the way a critical part of anthropology was conducted. The argument in his narrative was that one could not understand the shamanic world view without becoming a shaman. No informant could ever convey this, because so much of it was experiential. And it could not be properly known unless one entered with sincerity into the experience as a participant, not just as an observer. Implicit in this was the worldview that non-technological cultures can be as insightful as their technological counterparts; albeit in different areas of human functioning. Two insights central to this thesis were particularly relevant to SAC: There is an aspect of human consciousness that exists independent of time and space that is susceptible to volitional control; and, there is an interconnection between all life forms which must be understood if the universal impulse humans feel toward the spiritual component of their lives is to properly

In this article, we analyse Indian museum practices that pertain to the representation of the nation’s liberation and independence from colonial occupation. We draw specifically on a comparative analysis of museums in the former Portuguese and French territories of India. These territories remained colonies for a number of years after the British were forced from India, raising questions of how contemporary museums represent these alternative narratives of independence. Such sites have previously been considered at the periphery of narratives of Indian decolonisation, but we argue that the territories reveal key aspects of current museological practice in India. In examining how museums in Velha Goa and Chandannagar represent colonial narratives, we demonstrate that the museums present a timeless and enduring Indian culture that has universal values, contrasted with the temporally limited European nature of imperialism. We subsequently argue that museum practices, which might appear to diverge from the central narrative of Indian independence, have instead been co-opted to support historical narratives of an essentialised Indian state and singular emergence as an independent nation.

Many scholars have cautioned against over-emphasizing the role of culture and values in the unique structure of the American welfare state. In this article, I argue that the Tea Party movement is an exceptional example of how values attributed to the founding of the American nation are used as a cultural schema to legitimize arguments and to mobilize political actors to constrain the perception of available welfare policy options. Using the Wayback Machine, I have built a bespoke archive of rhetoric from Tea Party chapter websites in 2009 to 2011, outlining the values the Tea Party attributes to the Founding Fathers. I provide a more nuanced history of the Founding Era in order to expose the selective scope of Tea Party history, exaggerating certain ideas while neglecting others. Adapting a pragmatic historiographical method, I argue that this historical narrative illuminates the less socially desirable motivations of both the elite and everyday actors in the Tea Party: free market ideology and latent racial animus. As such, I conclude that cultural values ought to remain an important area of research, particularly identifying how modern political actors co-opt history and national identity to legitimize partisan ideological claims, particularly in the arena of welfare policy.\ud \ud

This article scrutinises instances where translation corresponds to what I call ‘cultural repatriation’, through the examination of two Anglophone novels about the Greek civil war and their transfer into Greece. Translation as repatriation concentrates on works which are, effectively, repatriated into their original context and made vulnerable to its aesthetic and socio-ideological encounters. The translation of Gage’s Eleni (1983a) and de Bernières’s Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (1994) into Greek constitutes cultural repatriation as cultural representations in the works are constructed through a ‘foreign gaze’ and rendered problematic upon transfer. Within this context, I examine how specific strategies in the promotion, translation, and consumption of these works challenge or reinforce hegemonic versions and narrative modes of the historical narrative and lead to a renegotiation of the cultural categories constructed in them. Methodologically, the article combines Bourdieu’s sociology and narrative theory creating a robust framework for the study of cultural repatriation.

The publication of a selection of Paul John Eakin’s essays on life writing in the new Routledge Auto|Biography Studies series represents a landmark in the history of this immensely fertile genre. T...

Humans live by experiencing various types of sufferings, directly or indirectly. For this reason, it is evident that one of the topics of great interest in congregations is the question of suffering. This study aims to present redemptive-historical narrative preaching as a homiletical strategy for preaching on suffering. Redemptive-historical narrative preaching can be a homiletical alternative for preaching on suffering because it improves the weaknesses of the traditional homiletic and new homiletic and further develops their strengths. In this study, we will identify the main problems of preaching on suffering in Korean churches. Then, we will discuss redemptive-historical preaching and narrative preaching, which form the foundation of redemptive-historical narrative preaching. Finally, we will propose and explain the redemptive-historical narrative preaching in detail and why it is suitable to respond to contexts of suffering within congregations. Contribution: Redemptive-historical narrative preaching has greater significance, not only in terms of overcoming the limitations of redemptive-historical preaching and narrative preaching but also in maximising the advantages of both. This research would contribute to the field of homiletics of the Hervormde Teologiese Studies journal.

The concept of “apocalypse”, often evoking images of fiery, final judgments and cataclysmic endings, seems firmly situated within theological, indeed Christian, tradition. Recent historiographical literature analyzing the ways in which apocalyptic narratives have been leveraged within religious contexts, especially stories of conquest, has emphasized facets of this role, both rhetorically and logically, in their construction and framing. I investigate several of these, canvassing both long past and more recent examples, in order to unpack the ways in which they highlight the centrality of apocalyptic “technologies” in order to be recognized as historical narratives. Specifically, the discursive and aesthetic constituents of these narratives appear importantly connected to certain teleologies, and their requisite ontologies, emplotted within a framework of prophecy-cum-apocalypse. In this paper, I argue that this relationship is instrumental in order to give meaning to these narratives, as histories. This is a result of an inherent mechanism within that history’s interpretive telos functioning prophetically in support of their methodological and theoretical vantage points. As a result, historical analysis is quite often normatively constrained by therange of possible teli permitted within the boundaries of the discursive spaces inscribed by both the historian and the historical actors in play. Apocalypse, often evoking images of fiery judgments and cataclysmic endings, is situated within religious, perhaps especially Christian, traditions. Recent literature analyzing how apocalyptic narratives are leveraged within religious contexts, especially stories of conquest, has emphasized facets of this role, both rhetorically and logically, in their construction and framing. I investigate several of these, in addition to a contemporary, secular example, to show how apocalyptic logic is leveraged within them. Specifically, the discursive and aesthetic constituents of these narratives appear connected to teleologies emplotted within a story-telling framework of prophecy-cum-apocalypse. I argue that this relationship is instrumental as it gives meaning to these stories, as histories. Apocalypse’s function within historicity has been recognized by such authors as Daniel Reff, Antonis Liakos, and Stephen O’Leary, and my argument leverages their important insights while going beyond them to suggest that apocalyptic historicity trades as much in beginnings as it does in endings, allowing for a more thorough, indeed intimate, integration of prophetic elements within historical narratives.

W artykule śledzę taktyki przywoływania (i unikania) wcześniejszych nazw współczesnego Wrocławia jako elementu tworzenia jego dziedzictwa kulturowego. Na przykładzie opracowań historycznych i wykorzystując metodę analizy dyskursu, pokazuję mechanizmy kreowania różnie akcentowanych przeszłości miasta. Opierając się na użyciu nazwy historycznej (na przykład Breslau) czy konsekwentnie tylko współczesnej (Wrocław), wskazuję, że za strategią wyboru nazwy stoją odmienne, ideologicznie uwarunkowane, narracje. Jedni badacze, używając wcześniejszych, historycznych nazw miasta, tworzą obraz ciągle zmieniającego się europejskiego ośrodka miejskiego, natomiast drudzy, posługując się wyłącznie współczesną nazwą, konstruują obraz miasta jako kontynuatora wielowiekowej miejskiej tradycji, z dominacją polskiej perspektywy narracji historycznej.