No One Wakes Up Wanting to Be Homeless: A Case Study in Applied Creative Writing

Rendle-Short, Francesca; Scott, Ronnie; Taylor, Stayci; Thin, M Aung; Ellis, Melody

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-68115-3_7

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“…Approaches include harnessing the capacity of stories to “transport” listeners into a different world, thereby bypassing some of the normal critical and evaluative processes that might preclude the adoption of new or challenging ideas (Dey and Mason, 2018; Frantzeskaki, 2019; Cavada et al. , 2021; Díaz, 2021); supporting the adoption of transformative social innovation (Lenz and Shier, 2021); generating and distributing stories in ways that benefit and empower their original authors (Nutt and Schwartz, 2008, Rendle-Short et al. , 2018); and using emotional, affective, social and symbolic cues to guide audiences towards empathy, personal identification/attachment and, ultimately, action (Bublitz et al.…”

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“…, 2016). Within this larger theme sits a substantial subset of publications from the arts (Rendle-Short et al. , 2018; Coban et al.…”

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“…Intrapersonal narratives have been studied for their ability to shape entrepreneurial identities. But, we ask, might an attention shift towards application of intrapersonal narrative, rather than just analysis, have positive effects on entrepreneurs' well-being and resilience as demonstrated for those affected by social enterprise (Ahmas, 2012;Rendle-Short et al, 2018;Oswald, 2022)? Especially in terms of transformative social innovation, a stronger focus on the applications of storytelling at the micro and meso levels might help sustain the typically long and complex social innovation processes.…”

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“…Other publications presented descriptive case studies where stories played a role in social innovation, whether through empowering citizens to collectively construct and narrate their realities (Ahmas, 2012;Tassinari et al, 2017), challenge xenophobic narratives (Coban et al, 2020) or through elucidating, by means of practical examples, the potential for a more socially and environmentally sustainable economy (Longhurst et al, 2016). Within this larger theme sits a substantial subset of publications from the arts (Rendle-Short et al, 2018;Coban et al, 2020) and design (Chueng-Nainby et al, 2015;Eriksen et al, 2016;Galbiati and Piredda, 2017;Copeland and de Moor, 2018;Bertolotti, 2020;Nawawi et al, 2020;Piredda and Ciancia, 2022;Venter and Moolman, 2022) that describe applications of storytelling to collectively imagine, debate and co-design alternative futures.…”

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Exploring the role of narrative in social enterprise and social innovation

Meissner,

McNeill,

Allen

2024

SEJ

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Purpose This paper aims to examine how the fields of social enterprise, social entrepreneurship and social innovation have theorised and applied the concepts of narrative and storytelling. Design/methodology/approach A literature review and subsequent thematic analysis were used. A keyword search of three databases identified 93 relevant articles that were subsequently reviewed for this paper. Findings Four main roles for storytelling and narrative were found in the literature: to gain support for social innovation, to inspire social change, to build a social-entrepreneurial identity and to debate the meaning and direction of social innovation itself. Practical implications Following the literature review, capacities and applications of storytelling and narrative in other, related fields are discussed to highlight practical use cases of storytelling that might currently be underdeveloped in the social enterprise and innovation sectors. Originality/value The paper argues that the social innovation and enterprise literature predominantly views storytelling as a form of mass communication, while often overlooking its ability to foster communal debate and organise intrapersonal dialogue as possible aspects of strategic thinking and innovation management in social enterprise, social entrepreneurship and social innovation.

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