Narrating migration, narrating futures
Social narratives on global power dynamics in Cameroon and the Cameroonian diaspora
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Beschreibung
The book revolves around narrative as an intriguing, as well as intricate object of analysis and demonstrates how theoretically sound and empirically founded narrative research can look like. Migration is imbued, motivated, and shaped by imagination. Based on the everyday language around migration in Cameroon, the author is exploring social narratives about migration and their relationship with the global. Migration storytelling is a cultural force which speaks about people and their lives to the fullest: What they aspire to, the risks they take, and the stories they tell about all of it.
The book revolves around narrative as an intriguing, as well as intricate object of analysis and demonstrates how theoretically sound and empirically founded narrative research can look like. Migration is imbued, motivated, and shaped by imagination. Based on the everyday language around migration in Cameroon, the author is exploring social narratives about migration and their relationship with the global. Migration storytelling is a cultural force which speaks about people and their lives to the fullest: What they aspire to, the risks they take, and the stories they tell about all of it.
Proves the hypothesis that influential social narratives have consequences for our actions Explains why people continue to travel through perilous pathways despite knowing the risks of irregular migration Develops a coherent methodology for applied narrative research on everyday storytelling
Autor*in
Marlene Gärtner
Themen in »Narrating migration, narrating futures«
Cameroon and the Cameroonian diaspora Contextualist narratology Colonial narratives Countering social narratives Crisis narratives Embodied, relational and situational research Empirical migration research Everyday storytelling Experiential dimensions of immobilities Migration storytelling Multisided glocal ethnography Narrative communities Narratives of belonging Paradise Europe narrative Story games and border games