A Narrative Analysis of Success and Failure in Environmental Remediation

Campbell, Robert A.

doi:10.1177/1086026602153002

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“…The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien 50, no 2 (2006) challenges that also feature localized environmental health concerns (see Campbell 2002).…”

Section: The Risk Society and Environmental Pollutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The risk society at work in the Sydney ‘Tar Ponds’

Haalboom

Elliott

Eyles

et al. 2006

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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This paper explores the implications of environmental contamination on the perceived health impacts, effects on daily life and coping mechanisms of residents living near the Tar Ponds in Sydney, Nova Scotia. The site contains over 700,000 tonnes of contaminated sediments and is considered one of the most contaminated commercial–industrial sites in Canada [Canadian British Consultants Limited (CBCL) and Conestoga Rovers and Associates (CRA) 1999 Phase 1 Site Assessment: Muggah Creek Watershed, Sydney, Nova Scotia]. Resident fears regarding perceived health risks, as well as other concerns related to property values and the viability of the local economy have been reinforced by distrust of government and of science. These concerns have been sustained by clean‐up delays. In response, many residents have engaged in forms of activism as a prominent form of coping, while several residents have kept well‐informed and sought social support. These findings indicate that the process of remediation and site clean‐up must be sensitive to local context.

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“…The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien 50, no 2 (2006) challenges that also feature localized environmental health concerns (see Campbell 2002).…”

Section: The Risk Society and Environmental Pollutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The risk society at work in the Sydney ‘Tar Ponds’

Haalboom

Elliott

Eyles

et al. 2006

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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“…By analyzing how these events are integrated and sequenced into a story and the narrative choices that are made along the way, narrative analysis can generate insights about the organizational life: its culture, processes, strategies, and member identities (Barry & Elmes, 1997). Numerous scholars have applied narrative analysis in management research, including the studies of organizational decisions and actions (O'Connor, 1997), organizational change process, (Stevenson & Greenberg, 1998), dynamics of environmental movements (Campbell, 2002), sense making after tragic events (Dubnick, 2002), and symbolic meanings hidden beneath the surface in CEO letters to shareholders (Prasad & Mir, 2002).…”

Section: Content and Narrative Analysesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Implicit Mental Models in Teaching Cases: An Empirical Study of Popular MBA Cases in the United States and China

Liang

Jia-qian

2004

AMLE

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To identify the possible mismatch between what MBA students are supposed to learn and what they are actually exposed to in the case methods, we analyzed the manifest and latent meanings of popular MBA teaching cases in the United States and China. Our findings suggest that despite repeated calls for a more holistic approach to management education, overemphasis on the rational framework persists. We identify five patterns common to both U.S. and Chinese cases; namely, rationalistic framework, undersocialized protagonist, strategy-driven organization, manager-as-analyst, and naïve and biased politics. We also discuss the likely causes for the biases and propose possible ways to develop better-balanced teaching cases.

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“…Narratives are essentially temporal by structure, historical by design, and rhetorical by explanation mode (Griffin, 2010: 133). So, no less than everyday actors, sociologists are "narrators" (e.g., Ellerman, 1998;Ezzy, 1998;Fraser, 2004), telling "stories" to explain how they transform narratives of everyday actors and empirical objects into some spatial, temporal, and logical configurations (Campbell, 2002;Maines, 1993: 17). Thirdly, one can choose a broad definition of narrative as a metaphor for various forms of biographies that denies the possibility of systematic and precise methods of obtaining, transcription and analysis of narratives, i.e.…”

Section: Why Narrative and Discourse Analysis Are So Multi-within Socmentioning

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When Methodology Beats Techniques; or, Why We Prefer Discourse and Narrative Analysis to Interpret Textual Data

Trotsuk¹

2015

RSR

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Recently, textual analysis has become quite popular in social sciences in general, and in sociological studies in particular, partly due to the "narrative turn" that emphasizes the textual nature of all social practices and legitimizes their explanations through discourses that constitute social reality and identification models in contemporary society. Though content analysis has long ago proved its methodological and technical relevance to solve sociological questions in providing both qualitative and quantitative data about discursively structured social reality, the modern popularization of textual analysis within sociology is associated with two vague and multifaceted approaches, those of narrative and discourse analysis. The article first outlines the three types of sociological data the researchers have to deal with: formalized data that can be arranged in different matrices and analyzed mathematically; weakly formalized, but still structured and organized data; and non-formalized data that supposes the application of textual analysis. The author then presents her explanation of the current state of affairs in the use of textual analysis in empirical sociological studies, in which narrative and discourse analysis are often positioned as the only possible research methods to be employed despite several decades of the successful application of content analysis. This explanation consists of two parts: the first section includes a number of strict requirements a researcher must follow while conducting content analysis, while the second consists of the attractive advantages of narrative and discourse analysis as determined by their interdisciplinary status, nature, and origin.

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A Narrative Analysis of Success and Failure in Environmental Remediation

Cited by 13 publications

References 26 publications

The risk society at work in the Sydney ‘Tar Ponds’

The risk society at work in the Sydney ‘Tar Ponds’

Implicit Mental Models in Teaching Cases: An Empirical Study of Popular MBA Cases in the United States and China

When Methodology Beats Techniques; or, Why We Prefer Discourse and Narrative Analysis to Interpret Textual Data

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