Storylistening: Narrative Evidence and Public Reasoning

Storylistening makes the case for the urgent need to take stories seriously in order to improve public...
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Author: Sarah Dillon
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Storylistening: Narrative Evidence and Public Reasoning by Dillon, Sarah

Storylistening: Narrative Evidence and Public Reasoning

$948.09

Storylistening: Narrative Evidence and Public Reasoning

$948.09
Author: Sarah Dillon
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Storylistening makes the case for the urgent need to take stories seriously in order to improve public reasoning. Dillon and Craig provide a theory and practice for gathering narrative evidence that will complement and strengthen, not distort, other forms of evidence, including that from science.

Focusing on the cognitive and the collective, Dillon and Craig show how stories offer alternative points of view, create and cohere collective identities, function as narrative models, and play a crucial role in anticipation. They explore these four functions in areas of public reasoning where decisions are strongly influenced by contentious knowledge and powerful imaginings: climate change, artificial intelligence, the economy, and nuclear weapons and power. Vivid performative readings of stories from The Ballad of Tam-Lin to The Terminator demonstrate the insights that storylistening can bring and the ways it might be practised.

The book provokes a reimagining of what a public humanities might look like, and shows how the structures and practices of public reasoning can evolve to better incorporate narrative evidence. Storylistening aims to create the conditions in which the important task of listening to stories is possible, expected, and becomes endemic.

Taking the reader through complex ideas from different disciplines in ways that do not require any prior knowledge, this book is an essential read for policymakers, political scientists, students of literary studies, and anyone interested in the public humanities and the value, importance, and operation of narratives.



Author: Sarah Dillon, Claire Craig
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/17/2021
Pages: 214
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9780367406738

About the Author

Sarah Dillon is Reader in Literature and the Public Humanities in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Claire Craig is Provost of Queen's College Oxford, UK, and a former civil servant.




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