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The article focuses on the interwoven Indigenous and diaspora identities of the author's family on the island of Guåhan. Topics include the interconnected histories of Black and Indigenous Pacific peoples, the narrative of family discovery that challenges dominant representations of Guåhan, and the author's choreographic practice as a means to engage with and honor her ancestral heritage.

This article is a commentary on Ramoglou and McMullen’s 2024 article “What is an opportunity?: From theoretical mystification to everyday understanding.” The original article is discussed here with a focus on the philosophy of ordinary language and actualization theory in the context of entrepreneurship theory.

This article is a commentary on the Wood, Bakker and Fisher 2021 article “Back to the future: A time-calibrated theory of entrepreneurial action.” Here, the authors focus on impulsivity, narrativity, and the intentionality bias in the context of temporality in entrepreneurship action theory.

Many human behavioral and brain imaging studies have used narratively structured stimuli (e.g., written, audio, or audiovisual stories) to better emulate real-world experience in the laboratory. However, narratives are a special class of real-world experience, largely defined by their causal connections across time. Much contemporary neuroscience research does not consider this key property. We review behavioral and neuroscientific work that speaks to how causal structure shapes comprehension of and memory for narratives. We further draw connections between this work and reinforcement learning, highlighting how narratives help link causes to outcomes in complex environments. By incorporating the plausibility of causal connections between classes of actions and outcomes, reinforcement learning models may become more ecologically valid, while simultaneously elucidating the value of narratives.

The current study explored how applied sport psychology practitioners adopting client-led stances described two of their athlete interactions. Applied sport psychology practitioners (8 female and 12 male, mean age = 33.76 years, SD = 4.70), describing themselves as client-led practitioners, discussed two athlete consultancies during open-ended interviews. Data analysis involved examining the narrative structure of practitioners' stories and identifying the features of client-led service delivery present in the accounts. The participants' stories reflected a collaborative empiricism narrative in which they collaborated with athletes to resolve client issues. The stories contained features of client-led person-centered therapy and the use of practitioner-led techniques and interventions. The results point to applied implications such as providing accounts of service delivery on which practitioners can reflect as they consider the ways they wish to help clients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Working with a prominent mentor can offer many benefits to one's career: mentors provide skills, resources, and values that leave a lasting imprint. Yet, these promising starting points also present a puzzle as people make sense of their careers further on: they must acknowledge their association with their prominent mentor, without being overshadowed by them. We refer to this tension as the paradox of promise. Through a qualitative study of former employees at the Eames Office, we examine how individuals navigate the paradox of promise as they construct retrospective career narratives. We find that individuals narrate their formative experience as imprints, but with two distinct emphases—values-dominant imprints versus skills-dominant imprints. Individuals then narrate their later career experiences by reprinting, reinforcing the existing meaning or finding new meaning in relation to their imprint; we induced three reprinting practices: (a) embracing values, (b) contrasting values, and (c) supplanting values. Using imprints and reprinting, former Eames employees crafted overarching sources of career meaningfulness: belongingness narratives, emphasizing collaboration and contribution with others; self-expression narratives, emphasizing authenticity and freedom; and achievement narratives, emphasizing expertise and accomplishment. Our study contributes to interpretive perspectives of career success and mentor relationships, and how meaningfulness is constructed over the career. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Authenticity is increasingly seen as a source of competitive advantage in many industries. Accordingly, authenticity work, the organizational efforts to develop and sustain believable authenticity claims, has emerged as an important organizational practice. We examined the interplay of materiality and narratives underpinning producers' authenticity work in the context of incumbent and micro-distilleries operating in the Canadian whisky industry. We found that producers' material endowments, especially central product features, anchored which authenticity claims they could credibly narrate. Other material endowments, such as key people and architectural design, were used to reinforce the integrity of authenticity claims. Our study extends our understanding of authenticity as a valued organizational resource. First, we identify two mechanisms, anchoring and reinforcement, through which materiality both constrains and facilitates organizations' authenticity narratives. Second, our research brings to the fore how audience members' experiential closeness to producers colors their perceptions of authenticity, and we show how material artifacts can enhance such closeness. Third, our findings highlight the competitive value of authenticity by unpacking how producers' material endowments may constitute a resource or a liability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Storytelling is a common tactic used by marketers to connect with consumers and persuade through narrative transportation. While researchers have explored how narrative transportation can be generated through many different mediums, little research has investigated how narrative transportation can be achieved through a single image, such as those used for print ads and billboards. This research examines how single-image, picture-based ads with high levels of depicted movement can prompt consumers to empathize with characters in the ad, activate their imagination, and experience narrative transportation leading to more positive attitudes toward that ad. In addition, when ads incorporate a design tactic that requires inductive inference, such as showing products as humanized, narrative transportation can be generated even in the absence of depicted movement. This research adds to the narrative transportation literature by providing depicted movement and humanization as specific tactics advertisers can use in a single image to persuade through narrative transportation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This descriptive phenomenology study aimed to glean insights from the narratives of Blaan learners, an indigenous community residing in Mindanao. Specifically, the study sought to capture the lived experiences and perspectives of Blaan learners, shedding light on their unique challenges and resilience. Five (5) Blaan learners from Lanao Kapanglao Elementary School were purposively sampled for in-depth interviews. The findings revealed that Blaan learners often traverse dangerous routes to school, assume independence at a young age, and come from large families. These experiences underscore the resilience of Blaan learners amidst adversity. However, they also highlight the significant challenges they face in accessing education and navigating their daily lives. In light of these findings, targeted interventions are recommended to support the educational journey and well-being of Blaan learners. Suggestions include the creation of safe road designs along school routes by the Local Government Unit (LGU), strengthening law enforcement within school zones, equipping learners with safety skills, and implementing weekly feeding programs for Blaan learners and other Indigenous youth. Additionally, initiatives such as counselling sessions addressing early marriage and parental separation among Blaan youth may be beneficial. This study emphasized the importance of understanding the unique experiences of indigenous communities like the Blaan, and advocates for proactive measures to address their specific needs and challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractI review the virtues and limitations of the narrative paradigm in contemporary clinical practice. I contrast ‘episodic’ and ‘diachronic’ forms of life, the former characterised by no particular predisposition to see one’s life in narrative terms and the tendency to experience oneself fragmentarily. After highlighting a progressive decline of storytelling in the current socio-cultural scenario, I show how a number of conditions (borderline-type personality and identity development in adolescence) are marked by reduced ability to organise narratively one’s own experiences. I emphasize a mismatch between the episodic and fragmentary phenomena characterizing these conditions and the prevailing opinion among clinicians belonging to academic culture that values instead the narrative paradigm. In the training of the clinicians, in addition to the necessary skills related to the diagnostic framing of the patient’s symptoms, and in addition to narrative competence, the capacity to embrace all that is fragmentary (that is, what at face value escapes diagnosis and narration) is necessary. I corroborate the approach with a theory taken from contemporary art criticism called ‘aesthetics of post-production’ and its capacity to re-signify the meaning of fragments by recontextualizing them. The personal ‘knots’ in the patient’s experience can be preserved and enhanced only through fragment-oriented listening. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzes hitherto neglected uses of a second-person singular (2sg hereafter) pronoun in Japanese: the ‘generic’ and ‘vague’ uses of the 2sg pronoun anata observed in reported speech. The aim of the study is twofold. First, it refutes the broader assumption in typological studies that languages with an open-class pronominal system, such as Japanese and Korean, do not allow generic uses of 2sg (Kitagawa and Lehrer 1990. Impersonal uses of personal pronouns. Journal of Pragmatics 14(5). 739–759). This study demonstrates that the 2sg pronoun anata in Japanese is used to refer to people in general (‘generic’ use) or to human referents who are low in specificity (‘vague’ use). Second, as these uses occur in reported speech, this study sheds light on the various ways in which current speaker attitudes in reported speech may be encoded across different languages (Spronck 2012. Minds divided: Speaker attitudes in quotatives. In Isabelle Buchstaller & Ingrid van Alphen (eds.), Quotatives: Cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary perspectives, 71–142. Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 87). Drawing on the notion of ‘constructed dialogue’ (e.g., Tannen 1989. Talking voices: Repetition, dialogue, and imagery in conversational discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), the study shows that these uses of anata are most often the quoting speaker’s ‘construction’ rather than ‘report’, reflecting the quoting speaker’s attitude in specifying the referent. Using the data obtained from parliamentary debates, the study demonstrates that politicians draw on these uses of anata as one of their speech strategies for creating generalized narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In response to the evolving needs of knowledge synthesis, this manuscript introduces the concept of narrative reanalysis, a method that refines data from initial reviews, such as systematic and reviews, to focus on specific sub‐phenomena. Unlike traditional narrative reviews, which lack the methodological rigor of systematic reviews and are broader in scope, our methodological framework for narrative reanalysis applies a structured, systematic framework to the interpretation of existing data. This approach enables a focused investigation of nuanced topics within a broader dataset, enhancing understanding and generating new insights. We detail a five‐stage methodological framework that guides the narrative reanalysis process: (1) retrieval of an initial review, (2) identification and justification of a sub‐phenomenon, (3) expanded search, selection, and extraction of data, (4) reanalyzing the sub‐phenomenon, and (5) writing the report. The proposed framework aims to standardize narrative reanalysis, advocating for its use in academic and research settings to foster more rigorous and insightful literature reviews. This approach bridges the methodological gap between narrative and systematic reviews, offering a valuable tool for researchers to explore detailed aspects of broader topics without the extensive resources required for systematic reviews. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores how self-identity can be impacted upon by the use of digital and social media. In particular, drawing on a narrative account of selfhood, it argues that some forms of activity and interaction on the internet can support the capacity to be oneself, and foster transformative processes that are self-enhancing. I start by introducing different positions in the philosophical exploration of identity online, critically outlining the arguments of those who hold a "pessimistic" and an "optimistic" stance respectively. I then expand on the narrative identity framework that has been used to support the optimists' view, arguing that digital and social media use can foster forms of self-understanding that enable us to preserve or develop our identity. More precisely, exploring these dynamics also in relation to the lived experience of mental ill-health, I maintain that internet-enabled technology can support narrative self-constitution in three main ways: (1) by facilitating the processes through which we remember self-defining life-stories; (2) by enabling us to give salience to the stories that we decide should matter the most; and (3) by providing us with opportunities to obtain social uptake for our narratives. I then conclude by dispelling some possible objections to the use of a narrative approach to account for selfhood online. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In recent years, several emblematic cases of girls pregnant due to rape have occupied the Brazilian news. The obstacles they faced to access the right to abortion mobilized the public debate, especially through social networks. In this context, using a theoretical-analytical framework in relation to the narrative disputes and framing of social movements in networks, this article analyzes two of the most recent widely known cases on Twitter/X. To do so, quantitative and qualitative methodologies are employed. On the one hand, message exchange networks are analyzed, along with their influence and contagion relationships and automation in Twitter/X. On the other hand, narratives are categorized based on topic modelling combined with qualitative analysis, highlighting narratives for and against abortion rights in order to understand how the social imaginary is disputed in networks. It is concluded that the narratives for sexual and reproductive rights were successful in influencing the public sphere and in promoting ideas with positive effects for guaranteeing victims’ rights. However, these same narratives reproduced a moral dichotomy between “good” and “bad” abortions. Thus, it is necessary to overcome such antagonisms so that all people may have reproductive freedom in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we introduce the term "conjuration of algorithms" to describe how the tech industry uses the language of magic to shape people's perceptions of algorithms. We use the image of the magician as a metaphor for how the tech industry strategically deploys narrative devices to present their algorithms. After presenting a brief history of the Western European and North American understanding of stage magic, we apply three principles of magic to a recent case: OpenAI's discussion of ChatGPT to show how tech leaders present algorithms as magical entities. We argue that the conjuration of algorithms allows the tech industry to forge vivid, overly positive, and deterministic narratives that make it challenging for their critics to call attention to the very real harms that algorithmic systems pose to users. We call for discourses of reality instead of magic, as a way to support responsible technology design, development, use, and governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Talking about sexuality in a health care total institution is not an easy task insofar as it contributes to the disclosing of the subjective and cultural postures of professionals, in contexts still marked by the absence or lack of professional training on this subject. Talking about sexuality can also endanger or challenge the institution. This paper presents a secondary analysis of what is presented as a form of "clinical ethnography". The materials used in this study were collected in 1996–1997, in the context of a crisis situation caused by the revelation of illicit sexual relations between a head special educator and a young woman labelled as mentally handicapped, in a care institution. In the course of a psychosociological intervention carried out in response to a request from the management of the institution, professionals from different categories were able to express themselves on these "events" and to address, more generally, issues related to sexuality in the institution. The sessions, moderated by the author of the study and a psychoanalytic research assistant, were recorded and transcribed for subsequent feedback to participants. The thematic content analysis of the transcripts of the sessions allowed for a better understanding of the psychosocial obstacles to communication about sexuality, the subjective difficulties related to speaking out, the phenomena of denial of sexuality, as well as the representations of sexuality in institutional situations. The documents discussed here invite reflection on the complexity of collecting information and stories about sexuality in institutional settings. They explore communication processes and, in particular, the difficulties of communicating about sexuality and sexual abuse in institutions in the health and social sector. This study suggests ways in which clinical support can be provided to teams affected by and confronted with traumatic events and the personal and professional difficulties that may arise from such situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Parler de sexualité dans une institution de soins n'est pas chose aisée dans la mesure où cela contribue au dévoilement des postures subjectives et culturelles des professionnels, dans des contextes encore marqués par l'absence ou les lacunes de formation professionnelle à ce sujet. Parler de sexualité peut aussi mettre en danger ou en cause l'institution. Cet article propose une analyse secondaire de ce qui se présente comme une forme d'« ethnographie clinique ». Les matériaux mobilisés dans ce travail ont été recueillis en 1996–1997, dans le contexte d'une situation de crise suscitée par la révélation de relations sexuelles illicites entre un éducateur-chef et une jeune femme désignée comme handicapée mentale, dans une institution de soins. C'est au cours d'une intervention psychosociologique menée en réponse à une demande de la direction de l'établissement que des professionnels de différentes catégories ont pu s'exprimer sur ces « événements » et aborder de façon plus générale les questions liées à la sexualité dans l'établissement. Les séances de travail animées par l'auteur de l'étude et une assistante de recherche psychanalyste ont fait l'objet d'une prise de notes et ont été retranscrites pour être ensuite restituées aux participants. L'analyse de contenu thématique des retranscriptions des séances a permis de mieux comprendre les obstacles psycho-sociaux à la communication sur la sexualité, les difficultés subjectives liées à la prise de parole, les phénomènes de négation de la sexualité ainsi que les représentations de la sexualité en situation institutionnelle. Les documents discutés ici invitent à la réflexion sur la complexité du recueil d'informations et de récits sur la sexualité, explorent les processus de communication et notamment les difficultés à communiquer autour des questions de sexualité et d'abus sexuels dans des institutions du secteur sanitaire et social. Ce travail propose des pistes de travail clinique d'accompagnement des équipes concernées et confrontées à des événements traumatiques et aux difficultés personnelles et professionnelles qui surgissent de ces situations. Talking about sexuality in a health care institution is not an easy task insofar as it contributes to the disclosing of the subjective and cultural postures of professionals, in contexts still marked by the absence or lack of professional training on this subject. Talking about sexuality can also endanger or challenge the institution. This paper presents a secondary analysis of what is presented as a form of "clinical ethnography." The materials used in this study were collected in 1996-1997, in the context of a crisis situation caused by the revelation of illicit sexual relations between a head special educator and a young woman labelled as mentally handicapped, in a care institution. In the course of a psychosociological intervention carried out in response to a request from the management of the institution, professionals from different categories were able to express themselves on these "events" and to address, more generally, issues related to sexuality in the institution. The sessions, moderated by the author of the study and a psychoanalytic research assistant, were recorded and transcribed for subsequent feedback to participants. The thematic content analysis of the transcripts of the sessions allowed for a better understanding of the psychosocial obstacles to communication about sexuality, the subjective difficulties related to speaking out, the phenomena of denial of sexuality, as well as the representations of sexuality in institutional situations. The documents discussed here invite reflection on the complexity of collecting information and stories about sexuality in institutional settings. They explore communication processes and, in particular, the difficulties of communicating about sexuality and sexual abuse in institutions in the health and social sector. This study suggests ways in which clinical support can be provided to teams affected by and confronted with traumatic events and the personal and professional difficulties that may arise from such situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Criminal Narrative Experience (CNE) is a framework developed within Invest-igative Psychology, which combines the emotions and narrative roles experienced by the offender during the commission of their offense, to understand their personal experience of crime. Previous research proposes four distinct themes within CNE; The Elated Hero, The Calm Professional, The Distressed Revenger, and The Depressed Victim , however little attention has yet been paid to the potential differences in themes across various offense types. The current study explored the CNE model within a sample of sexual offenders. Results found evidence of two CNE themes; The Intrepid Professional-Adventurer and The Dejected Revenger-Victim, this has implications stretching further than theorical, and are particularly poignant for therapists and treatment managers, who may be providing intervention to groups of sexual offenders at any one time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study was to investigate stories of life's greatest challenge among men in late adulthood from a narrative and developmental perspective. The investigations focused on narrative processes and the content of challenge narratives in relation to satisfaction with life and generativity. Narrative processes were analyzed using existing frameworks (Eriksson et al. Identity 20:157–169, 2020). The study showed negative, neutral/vague, redemptive, and a combination of positive and negative emotional sequences, among which negative sequencing was the most common. An additional narrative theme, metareflections of challenges as part of life, involved the conclusion that hardship is simply part of what one may expect from life. Analyses of types of challenges revealed six categories and a secondary coding the adversity of the challenges. In contrast to expectations, redemptive sequencing was not associated with either higher satisfaction with life or generativity. The few differences that emerged in the subsequent analyses showed that participants whose challenges were coded as not expected and potentially disruptive had significantly lower satisfaction with life and lower mean age when the challenge occurred. In conclusion, the study demonstrated the saliency of the challenges' timing and adversity. Negative framing was common in the challenge narratives of the men in late adulthood, without being negatively associated with satisfaction with life or generativity. The role of negative emotional sequencing in this study adds new perspectives to the emphasis on redemption and positive emotionality for well-being and generativity in later adulthood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This review presents a comprehensive summary and critical evaluation of intention-to-treat analysis, with a particular focus on its application to randomized controlled trials within the field of rehabilitation. Adhering to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, we conducted a methodological review that encompassed electronic and manual search strategies to identify relevant studies. Our selection process involved two independent reviewers who initially screened titles and abstracts and subsequently performed full-text screening based on established eligibility criteria. In addition, we included studies from manual searches that were already cataloged within the first author's personal database. The findings are synthesized through a narrative approach, covering fundamental aspects of intention to treat, including its definition, common misconceptions, advantages, disadvantages, and key recommendations. Notably, the health literature offers a variety of definitions for intention to treat, which can lead to misinterpretations and inappropriate application when analyzing randomized controlled trial results, potentially resulting in misleading findings with significant implications for healthcare decision making. Authors should clearly report the specific intention-to-treat definition used in their analysis, provide details on participant dropouts, and explain upon their approach to managing missing data. Adherence to reporting guidelines, such as the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials for randomized controlled trials, is essential to standardize intention-to-treat information, ensuring the delivery of accurate and informative results for healthcare decision making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article revisits one of the texts associated with the fourteenth-century spread of Franciscan mission across Eurasia, the account of the travels of Odoric of Pordenone (d.1331). Odoric's text is often mined for what it might reveal about Latin Christian perceptions of East Asia. This article argues that the local rather than the global aspects of the text should be given prominence in our assessment of his work, and greater attention paid to the process of composition and likely audience. Odoric worked with a co-author and addressed a specifically Franciscan audience in the early fourteenth-century Veneto. The central priority of the text was to convey the 'reality' of a distant martyrdom, in Tana, India, in the absence of tangible relics to demonstrate the truth of that martyrdom. The account highlights some of the intellectual tensions produced as a narrative of universal mission – and martyrdom – became increasingly central to Franciscan identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the views of Jews in the early eleventh century on issues of rulership and power through analysis of a Hebrew text known as the '1007 Anonymous'. The article opens with a discussion of this work's account of practices of lordship, showing that its protagonist is presented as a lord. It then turns to examine papal involvement in the power struggles that characterised France, concluding that the protagonist's appeal to the papacy was at the time a common practice. It moves on to analyse anti-Jewish rhetoric and its underlying political messages, presenting it as a manifestation of power narratives. Finally, the article reframes the Hebrew account as evidence of Jewish attempts to cope with the rise of new practices of rulership in early eleventh century France, and as depicting a Jewish-Christian dispute over the symbolic role (or lack thereof) of the Jews within this political dynamic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research from political geographers has increasingly identified the diverse actors, practices, and performances of diplomacy, challenging narrow conceptions that had tended to associate them with the state alone. The following paper engages this plurality directly through, on the one hand, its focus on young people as diplomatic actors and, on the other, the diplomacy of a British Overseas Territory (OT)—the Falkland Islands—a polity characterised by its liminal subjectivity between colonial dependency and independent statehood. In 2022, to mark the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War, we partnered with the Falkland Islands Government Office (FIGO) in London, to design, deliver and evaluate a national schools' competition. The Falklands Forty Schools Competition (FFSC) culminated in an eight‐day trip to the Islands for seven prize winners. The paper reflects on our role in co‐organising the competition and the opportunities it afforded to observe young people probe and critically question the official narratives presented to them by government representatives. This offered us the opportunity to explore how geopolitical and diplomatic narratives can be projected, negotiated and challenged by young people in the context of a highly curated trip with narrative projection at its heart. We show how young people through their participation in the competition and, more specifically, a trip to the Falkland Islands, were able to identify slippages and inconsistencies in these 'stable' narratives related to governance of the Islands. The young people, far from being passive diplomatic 'delegates' unquestioningly imbibing the information presented to them were, instead, highly aware of narrative tipping‐points, tensions and slippages in their engagements with government representatives and diplomats. Research from political geographers has increasingly identified the diverse actors, practices and performances of diplomacy, challenging narrow conceptions that had tended to associate them with the state alone. The following paper engages this plurality directly through, on the one hand, its focus on young people as diplomatic actors and, on the other, the diplomacy of a British Overseas Territory (OT)—the Falkland Islands—a polity characterised by its liminal subjectivity between colonial dependency and independent statehood. We show how young people through their participation in the competition and, more specifically, a trip to the Falkland Islands, were able to identify slippages and inconsistencies in these 'stable' narratives related to governance of the Islands. The young people, far from being passive diplomatic 'delegates' unquestioningly imbibing the information presented to them were, instead, highly aware of narrative tipping‐points, tensions and slippages in their engagements with government representatives and diplomats. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Strategic culture has been studied to explain patterns of behavior focusing thereby almost exclusively on the impact of culture held by decision makers on strategic choices. This preoccupation with the culture-behavior nexus has resulted in overlooking the questions about the (re)construction of strategic culture and presuming it as historically given, out there, and self-evident. This article shifts the focus to the (re)construction of strategic culture and brings in narratives and othering as discursive practices that (re)construct strategic culture. By bridging strategic culture, narration, and othering, it demonstrates that strategic culture is not out there and self-evident but a set of narratives with elements of othering that constitutes and transmits distinct meanings about the self and others, and their interactions through particular storylines which frame strategic thinking as well as appropriate policy means and ends. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This experiment employed viewing time methods to investigate the effects of individual differences in visuospatial working memory (VWM) on the processing of older adults' bridging inferences in the understanding of visual narratives. The results showed that older adults could make bridging inferences in visual narrative processing, and that VWM had no significant effect on the generation of older adults' bridging inferences in visual narrative comprehension. The findings of this study have the potential to enrich and advance the theories and models related to discourse comprehension and its inference processing, and they would have important implications for using visual media to facilitate training in inference processing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fridays for Future, Extinction Rebellion and Sunrise Movement are among the new climate movements that have come into the public spotlight since 2019. While their successes in agenda-setting are undisputed, conclusions vary on whether and how this re-politicizes climate discourses. This article presents a new framework to analyze the dynamics of (de-)politicization along the dimensions of vision, agency and process. Based on a narrative analysis, we compare US movement and media documents from 2019 and identify five key narratives, namely, 'Evidence First,' 'Intergenerational Divide,' 'Climate Justice & Intersectionality,' 'System Change' and 'Political Fight.' While all movements use politicizing notions, we find that tensions between the dimensions inhibit the articulation of alternative visions of the future. This overall depoliticizing tendency appears to be rooted in process understandings that originate in dominant discursive framings of climate change and of science–policy interfaces – a finding that is informative for climate discourses in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on Indigenous women's narrative and storytelling tradition and its relation to decolonial ecologies. It argues that Indigenous women's narratives, both written and orally transmitted, constitute sites of defiance to the eco-social structures of settler colonialism and imperialism. Drawing on the case of Palestine, the article reveals that 'zoocentric environmentalism,' as represented by an Israeli installation at the Venice Biennale, incarnates the material and symbolic constituents of Zionist blooming enterprise. That is, such presumed forms of progressive 'non-anthropocentric' engagements with ecological calamities unveil the historical continuity of the Zionist project that aims to erase Indigenous Palestinians and their multigenerational, more-than-human place thought. To counter universalising environmental projects and their inherent colonial violence, the article engages with place-based stories of a Palestinian woman's novella; more-than-human ancestral knowledge shared by Palestinian women elders; and a visual-media project showing Palestinian refugee women returning to their ancestral villages. The article's overall aim is to advance an Indigenous situated approach to decolonising today's environmentalism and to centre Palestine in the wider social and cultural geography debate on Indigeneity, decolonial ecologies, and storytelling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Encounters with loss and death are an inherent part of human existence and a significant element in the tapestry of leisure. This article concludes the special issue of Leisure Sciences on 'Leisure, Loss, and Death.' It reflects upon the submitted manuscripts and introduces temporal approaches to the study of loss, highlighting distinctions between planning for and anticipating loss, the commodification and festivalization of loss, and the ways in which leisure can contribute to the recovery from loss and death. The article underscores that, by contemplating the event of loss and the temporal/experiential milieus before and after, numerous promising avenues for further inquiry emerge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Suicide attempts (SA) during perinatal period have the potential to adversely affect a woman's health and her developing infant. To date, little is known about perinatal SA and their risk factors. This study aimed to synthetize the evidence on risk factors of SA in pregnant and postpartum women. Methods: We systematically reviewed studies retrieved from PubMed/Medline, PsycINFO, and CINAHL, following the PRISMA guidelines for reporting. A meta-analysis was conducted only for risk factors examined in at least three distinct samples. Results: A total of ten studies were eligible for inclusion. All the studies found significant associations in regression models between perinatal SA and other variables (sociodemographic, clinical factors obstetric, neonatal, and psychosocial). The meta-analysis showed that unmarried women (pooled OR = 1.87, 95% CI = 1.26–2.78), with no higher education (pooled OR = 1.89, 95% CI = 1.31–2.74) and affected by a mood disorder (pooled OR = 11.43, 95% CI = 1.56–83.87) have a higher risk of postpartum SA; women who smoke during pregnancy (pooled OR = 3.87, 95% CI = 1.35–11.11) have a higher risk of SA in pregnancy; and women with previous suicidal behavior(pooled OR = 38.04, 95% CI = 3.36–431.17) have a higher risk of perinatal SA, whether during pregnancy or in the postpartum period. The type of sample, whether community or clinical, is a relevant moderating factor. Conclusion: Our study extends prior reviews about suicidal behaviors in women by studying perinatal suicide attempts independently, as well as it synthesized data on some sociodemographic, clinical, and obstetric/neonatal risk factors. Further studies about specific risk factors for perinatal SA are needed in order to improve early detection and intervention of women at risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ten years after its proposition, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has become a cornerstone of China's foreign policy. It paved the way for China to develop into an active global power shaping global norms and institutions. Applying a role theoretical perspective, the key principles and mechanisms at the heart of the BRI are outlined as well as the dynamic evolution of both the BRI narrative and key contents by highlighting in the Belt and Road Forums of 2017 and 2019. The paper argues that the BRI constitute a unilateral change of China's role conception for global economic gov7ernance (GEG). This interpretation of the BRI demonstrates that China is now presenting a model for GEG to other countries and that both the contents and the way it is presented continues to evolve. In this regard, a role theoretical reading of the BRI highlights both dynamic as well as pragmatic elements of foreign policy making under Xi Jinping. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Restorative narratives describe a new form of journalism that attempts to overcome the detrimental effects of the more prevalent negative and destructive tone of news coverage. This study investigates the potentials and risks of restorative narratives in the coverage of crises with a 2 (restorative/negative) × 2 (COVID-19/climate crisis) experimental online study (n = 829) for emotional, cognitive, evaluative, and behavioral outcomes. For both crises, results demonstrate that restorative narratives evoked more positive emotional reactions to the news, were more likely to be endorsed, and improved quality ratings of the news article compared with negative narratives. We found no effects for elaboration and information-seeking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the public contestation of the rollout of the fifth generation of mobile telecommunications networks (5G) in the Netherlands. Drawing on Pfaffenberger's framework of technological dramas, we analyze the variety of symbolic expressions about 5G made in documents published by "design constituencies" leading the technology's implementation, "ambivalent intermediaries" reporting on 5G's implementation and its emerging controversial status in the news, and by "impact constituencies" who organize on Facebook to oppose against 5G. The analysis describes a variety of publicly performed narratives and activities that build on symbolic meanings of a supposed public need for 5G, imaginaries of 5G futures, and scientifically manageable and responsible innovation. The paper demonstrates how the technological drama of 5G is constituted by tensions between different interpretations of these publicly performed meanings. However, amidst the drama, meanings of public need and imaginaries of 5G futures are temporarily suspended, constraining the stage for opposition and enforcing partial closure of the conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: To explore the health beliefs and health behaviours of older Vietnam‐born people living with chronic disease in Western Australia. Design: This study was designed as a focused ethnography guided by the interpretative research paradigm and Leininger's Theory of Culture Care. Methods: Data were collected through participant observation and interviews undertaken at participants' homes in Western Australia over 7 months in 2019. Data were analysed using Wolcott's approach for transferring qualitative data, comprising three phases: description, thematic analysis and interpretation. Results: This study included 12 participants. The health perspectives and practices of older Vietnam‐born Australians significantly reflected the traditional Vietnamese values. These included the stigma towards chronic disease as an inevitable consequence of ageing; self‐blame thoughts about chronic disease causations and maintained traditional dietary practices. However, some aspects of their health behaviours such as beliefs and practices in traditional medicine, Western medicine and physical exercise reflected a blended approach combining both Vietnamese‐oriented and Westernized‐orientated practices. Individual factors were also identified as contributing to chronic disease self‐care among participants. Conclusion: This study emphasizes culture played a significant role in shaping the way that older Vietnam‐born Australians believed and behaved while living with chronic conditions. However, it also indicates that culture is not a stationary concept, it evolves gradually and is socially constructed. Implications: A better understanding of the health beliefs and practices of older Vietnam‐born Australians is expected to contribute to the delivery of culturally safe and effective support for this population. The achievement of culturally safe care requires a systemic approach and collaboration of strategies across sectors. Patient and public contribution: This study encompassed the contribution of 12 older Vietnam‐born Australians who offered the researcher the privilege to enter their world and the staff of social care organization who opened the gate for the researcher to approach participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Humans have a proclivity for storytelling and narration. Although a lot of attention in the field of episodic memory focuses on the mnemonic content of narratives, memory narratives are not just for conveying the past. Instead, narratives provide a vehicle for meaning-making, social connection, and other complex facets of human cognition and thinking. This short reflection piece discusses the importance of narratives in these diverse realms. In addition, it briefly touches on the role of memory narration in the modern digital era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The modern phase of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has lasted for over three decades. Since the independent republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan emerged in 1991, the status of Nagorno-Karabakh has been at the centre of these countries' foreign and domestic policies. Using Robert Entman's theory, this article examines speeches about possible remedies to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict by the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey between 2002 and 2022 and identifies frames that these leaders create over the conflict's resolution. By enhancing our understanding of how state leaders frame their perspectives on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict for external audiences, this article demonstrates the complex challenges in achieving a peaceful resolution. Understanding these framing strategies is crucial for comprehending the underlying motivations and interests of the involved parties and sheds light on the challenges faced in resolving the conflict through peaceful means. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Individuals with autoimmune diseases face a multiplicity of adverse disruptions throughout their lives that can span physical, emotional, social, and financial contexts. We employed the communication theory of resilience as a theoretical framework to explore how individuals with an autoimmune disease construct the connections between triggers and communicative resilience responses within their narratives. Utilizing abductive analysis, we identified four overarching trigger patterns: (1) linear, (2) cyclical, (3) compounding, and (4) branching. In examining the triggers and health journeys of individuals with autoimmune diseases, we can practically aid physician communication approaches for patients with complex symptomologies, diagnostic journeys, and trigger patterns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The mainstream narrative of intercultural communication (IC) as a field remains Euro/U.S.-centric despite efforts to (re)imagine it from the margins. To shift this, in this exploratory essay we challenge the disciplinary contours of IC by using a pluriversal framework. We ask, how to pluriversalize Euro/U.S.-centric IC scholarship when it already penetrates non-European/U.S. spaces? And what lessons can this offer? To that end, we turn to a comparative review of the state of IC in the Gulf Cooperation Council states and Taiwan. We propose that to pluriversalize a focus on indigeneity and human-nature relationships is needed; and the concept of relational ontologies bind the two cases together and can be extended to other non-Euro/U.S. spaces so that pluriversal alternatives can appear. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper considers how the codex as a medium, specifically via its illustration and layout, translates into material forms the literary and textual choices of the texts it transmits in order to make its version of the Troy story tangible, and thus intelligible for its medieval readers. It takes as an example the first prose version of the Roman de Troie of Benoît de Sainte-Maure, probably composed in the last quarter of the thirteenthcentury in Frankish Greece, and focuses more specifically on a late manuscript of Prose 1, recently rediscovered, the manuscript F°26 from the Abbey of Maredsous (Belgium), made almost two centuries later, c. 1450, in the Burgundian Netherlands. This paper argues that this codex, in its specific context of production and within its textual and visual traditions, allow its audience to come into contact with the long-lost city of Troy, and the narrative that evokes it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In February 2017, Syrian-German artist Manaf Halbouni set up three upright bus wrecks at a central square of Dresden, thereby recalling a scene from the war-torn city of Aleppo, from which thousands were fleeing. The work of art, entitled Monument, was one of many controversial occasions on which emotions were mobilised in conflicts over migration. This paper deploys the concept of crafting emotional proximity and distance as a way to shift debates on whether emotions should be mobilised in conflicts over migration towards a closer engagement with how this can be done and what the ethical and political implications are. I suggest a methodological framework which combines a focus on the aesthetic, pragmatic and ethical/political aspects. By applying the approach to Monument, I argue that the material presence and physical proximity of the work of art disrupted the carefully crafted categories of 'inside' and 'outside' which characterise the concept of world order held by sections of the local population and catalysed by far-right activists. So whether or not Monument contributed to crafting stronger emotional proximity with refugees, it claimed public space and exposed world views of exclusivity and inequality which may otherwise have remained below the surface. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Narratives fundamentally shape the way we remember real-life experiences. However, neuroscientists have only begun to understand how narratives impact the way our brains support memory. In this opinion piece, I illustrate how the hippocampus, a key region of the brain for memory, transforms our experiences into larger narratives in memory. Furthermore, I argue that the hippocampus provides a biological basis for "intertextuality" -- that is, all experiences or texts may be necessarily understood and remembered in relation to other experiences or texts. An intertextual hippocampus has tangible consequences for our lives and our art. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: To systematically identify knowledge patterns and gaps in the appropriateness of nursing home (NH) to emergency department (ED) transitional care for older adults with dementia. Method: A systematic search of multiple information sources was performed from July to August 2023 using predesigned search strategies. Results: From 13 articles, 54 identified pieces of specific care evidence were grouped into six major care domains: (1) Resource Support for Assessing Transfer Needs and Patient Status; (2) Resource Support, Shared Decision Making, and Early Advance Care Planning; (3) Standardized Multimodal Information Transfer; (4) Designated ED and NH Transition Coordinators; (5) Enhanced Interfacility Collaboration; and (6) Appropriate Transitional Care Education, Research, and Policy Beyond the Transfer Interface. Conclusion: A comprehensive, consensus-based body of evidence is lacking. Despite person-centered, standardized, and professional resources supporting transitional care, reorienting NH cultural models remains unclear. Gaps include evidence tailored to diverse participants and contexts. Thus, a focus on policies, education, and research is required. [Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 50(9), 37–45.] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper develops the concept of 'imagined temporalities' to explore multiple temporal subjectivities, time cultures, 'myths', and realities evident in interviews with resettlement workers who were part of the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) in Merseyside, United Kingdom (UK). Conducted in 2019, the interviews took place as the triggering of Article 50 signalled the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union (EU). This period of unprecedented social, economic, and political changes formed a crucial backdrop framing our interviewees' narratives. The views of resettlement workers have been little explored and are employed here to complement the insights provided by work undertaken by others with refugees and asylum seekers. This research provides important insights into their perceptions of the interplay of factors that affect belonging and access to supports for refugees and asylum seekers, revealing wider, largely underreported, concerns.1 These include, their own personal experiences working in support services and system changes, driven by growing socio-political pressures that impact on community-building among refugees during their resettlement. Significantly, debates about "Brexit" and the UK's political future, as well as heated public discussions of the historical legacies of colonialism which underpin the present treatment of migrants, are reflected in these resettlement workers' views as well. Subsequently, this paper employs the concept of 'imagined temporalities' to explore how support workers understand the treatment of migrants by social and political systems—and their own personal struggles and hopes,—against this wider, divisive post-Brexit backdrop. Overall, the paper underlines the highly politicised space the resettlement workers operate in, where they balance the needs of service users in the midst of constraints imposed by overly rigid time regimes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To foster diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in environmental fields, scholars of environmental education call for educators to critically examine the cultural influences on our pedagogies (e.g., Chinn, 2006; Miller, 2017), particularly as they relate to land and Indigenous perspectives (Bang et al., 2014; Calderon, Lees, Swan Waite, & Wilson, 2021; Engel-Di Mauro & Carroll, 2014; Paperson, 2014). Professional development is one tactic institutions use to address DEI and is the focus of this case study, which seeks to determine how a professional development training supported environmental educators in recognizing exclusionary cultural narratives in their work. Ten staff and board members from a small, urban nature center participated in a training that included a five-module online course titled Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Environmental Education (KAEE, 2021) and four discussions using photovoice methodology (Wang & Burris, 1994). Each participant identified an example of how race and ethnicity influence their work and discussed changes they could make to organizational policies, practices, and culture. These findings point to the utility and limitations of professional development as a tool toward critical pedagogies that address DEI. Implications of this study are applicable in a wide variety of environmental education settings. These examples can help educators in environmental studies and sciences to reflect on our own narratives and how we might shift them in our classrooms, departments, and research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines how compliance with the CNMV Guide impacts narrative disclosures in listed companies' management reports from 2010 to 2016. Analyzing text and visual elements, we introduce a novel measure for visual content. Additionally, we create a quality indicator surpassing traditional methods to accurately assess disclosure quality.Examining consolidated management reports from 2010 to 2016, we track changes in the quantity and quality of narrative disclosures, their influencing factors, and interrelationships. Findings show significant increases in text and visual length, with visuals growing relative to text. Adherence to the CNMV guide positively impacts text quantity but not visual elements. Moreover, companies complying with the CNMV guide demonstrate higher information quality, effectively meeting stakeholders' needs. These results underscore the positive impact of the CNMV guide on narrative disclosures in listed companies. Our research contributes insights into disclosure dynamics and underscores the importance of adherence to reporting guidelines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article introduces Experimental Life Writing, a special issue dedicated to exploring narratives that push the boundaries of the form. It provides an overview of the field of experimental life writing, as it is viewed in the contemporary, and homes in on the relationship between creative practice and critical interpretation of the genre. It goes on to discuss the conference from which the special issue was born, with its particular focus on placing creative and critical practitioners in conversation. The article concludes with a précis of the resulting papers, which range from coining new hybrid genres, to analysing spontaneous writing practices, and identity creation in writing, taking in themes as broad as gender, death, childhood, technology and international politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]