Shaul Shenhav, "Analyzing Social Narratives" (Routledge, 2015)
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The Importance of Narratives in Political and Social Science
There are many ways to understand narratives and although I am in the conceptual business list within this book, I don't really care for the exact way one defines narrative. It's not the things themselves but representation of something and there is also succession of events. There is a time element there. And what strikes me at least that narratives can be very, very complicated and rich, but some of the key concepts can be quite straightforward. For me, at least in the book, I define narratives and I use the adopted definitions that are already there as the narration of a succession of Events.
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