The power of narrative in environmental networks / Raul Lejano, Mrill Ingram, and Helen Ingram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lejano, Raul P., 1961- author.

Ingram, Mrill, author.

Ingram, Helen M., 1937- author.

Series:

American and Comparative Environmental Policy

American and comparative environmental policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmentalism.

Environmental policy.

Policy sciences.

Social networks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2013]

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For as long has humans have lived in communities, storytelling has bound people to each other and to their environments. In recent times, scholars have noted how social networks arise around issues of resource and ecological management. This book argues that stories, or narratives, play a key role in these networks - that environmental communities 'narrate themselves into existence'. The book proposes the notion of the narrative-network, and introduces innovative tools to analyse the plots, characters, and events that inform environmental action.

Contents:

Contents; Series Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction: The Stories Environmental Networks Tell Us; Environmental Networks as Solution; Speaking New Environmental Truths; Emergent Ecologies; Integrating Scientific and Other Knowledge; Research and Critiques of Environmental Networks; The Power of Narrative in Understanding Networks; Envisioning New Ecologies; Layout of the Book; Our Choice of Case Studies; Chapter 2. A Theory of "More than Social" Networks; The Structuralist Dilemma; The Power of Networks; The Power of Narrative in Networks

How Networks Explain HeterogeneityAn Example of the Structural Dilemma; Chapter 3. The Turn to Narrative Analysis; The Centrality of Narratives; Linking Networks and Narratives; Narratives and Organization; Narratives, Frames, and Discourses; Guiding Principles; A Framework for Narrative Analysis; A Note on Narrative Nomenclature; Applying the Narrative-Network Framework; Chapter 4. Narrative, Network, and Conservation on the Arizona-Sonora Border; Introduction; The Setting: A Place of Contrasts; Tracing Network Ties; Border Environmental Activists ' Narratives

Implications for Democracy and GovernanceValue Added through Narrative Analysis of a Network; Chapter 5. Narrating the Ethical Landscape of the Turtle Islands; Tracing the Narratives; Emplotment: Making Sense of the Whole; Characterization: Nonhuman Actants and Conservationists; Alterity and the Other; Breach of Convention; The Contextuality of Knowledge; Value Added through Narrative Analysis; Chapter 6. Narratives of Nature and Science in Alternative Farming Networks; Elucidating Farmer Narrative-Networks; Emplotment in Alternative Farming Networks; Characterization - Nature as Partner

AlterityBreach - Keeping the Story Interesting; Hermeneutics and Gaps; Contextuality of Knowledge; Insights from Narrative Analysis; Chapter 7. Expanding the Ecological Imagination; Introduction; Themes and Findings; The Promise and Challenge of Narrative Analysis; Broader Implications for Research and Action; Linking Narratives to Practice; Notes; References; Index; American and Comparative Environmental Policy

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-01937-X

0-262-31534-3

OCLC:

855534557