2017
DOI: 10.1177/1473325016657866
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Narrative resistance in social work research and practice: Counter-storying in the pursuit of social justice

Abstract: In this article, we propose 'narrative resistance' as a potent and useful concept for both social work research and practice. A concept that attends to power and oppression, narrative resistance provides a platform for tangible applications to support people's efforts to resist harmful storyings of their lives. The aim of this article is to provide practical guidance for how social workers can attend to and support people's acts of narrative resistance. This is achieved by introducing the functions of narrativ… Show more

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“…Within social work, focus is often directed on client or staff stories: giving them a voice by listening (McKenzie-Mohr & Lafrance, 2017;Riessman & Quinney, 2005). In particular, one function of narrative is to construct understandings of persons and groups.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Within social work, focus is often directed on client or staff stories: giving them a voice by listening (McKenzie-Mohr & Lafrance, 2017;Riessman & Quinney, 2005). In particular, one function of narrative is to construct understandings of persons and groups.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The project is epistemologically rooted in the commitments of critical participatory action research (Torre, Fine, Stoudt, & Fox, 2012), which reorients views of expertise and emphasizes the importance of collaborative knowledge production. Given that stories carry legacies of sedimented ways of knowing, as well as imaginative possibilities for knowing differently, the project emphasized the importance of community members authoring their own counter-narratives of place (McKenzie-Mohr & Lafrance, 2017).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…International psychogeriatrics, 23 (6), 1011. [7] van Buren, B., Bromberger, B., Potts, D., Miller, B., & Chatterjee, A. (2013).…”
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“…У психології та соціології особисте оповідання охоплює розширені розповіді про життя в контексті, що розвиваються в ході одноразового або багаторазового інтерв'ю [10; 11]. У соціальній роботі наративний аналіз пропонує дослідникам спосіб зрозуміти, яку роль відіграють особисті історії у створенні суспільно-політичних контекстів та яким чином можна впливати на ці контексти [7].…”
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