Telling the Crisis: Narrative Elements in the Social Semantics of Crisis
Abstract
Based on the evidence provided by 9 focus groups, this paper deals with social semantics of the crisis within the framework of the hypothesis proposed by Janet Roitman. It proposes to portray various narrative strategies that allow to give account of the experience of the crisis, according to four axes of contrasts: Agency/patience, moralizing/power, situation/chronicity, destruction/creation. At its end, it proposes to reconstruct the fundamental features of the subjects appearing inside the proposed narrative plots.
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