Narratives in Times of Radical Transformation

<p>This book explores how narratives have been and can be used to facilitate radical transformations towards a more sustainable future.</p><p>Scholars from various disciplines have been increasingly utilizing social and cultural narratives to understand personal social and cultural transformations. These narratives offer guiding principles for achieving personal social and cultural transformations. Drawing on various fields such as psychoanalysis psychology sociology technology cultural studies and related areas this book presents different perspectives on narratives in situations of transformation exploring both commonalities and differences. The interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research that underpins this book emphasizes the co-creation of knowledge between political academic and civil society actors and therefore necessitates shared narratives that can foster common problem-solving strategies. Shared narratives also play a crucial role in legitimizing goals by supporting pluralistic value- and norm-integration. <br> <br> Offering new insights on how interdisciplinary research and therapeutic practice can assist individuals groups and even entire cultures in facilitating radical transformations towards more peaceful and sustainable living conditions this book will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of sociology psychology technology cultural studies and related areas. It was originally published as a special issue of <i>Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research. </i></p>