Considering Counter-Narratives

“Researchers, teachers or students interested in the subject of counternarratives, narrative analysis, and discursive resistance will find the collection very useful. It is informatively and methodologically fruitful, as well as thought-provoking through fostering debates between authors and commentators.”

“This informatively and methodologically fruitful volume is especially valuable for its multifaceted insight and dynamic perspective. The focus constantly shifts from the single steps of the specific contributions to the path they move along, from a situated action to an interactional situation. The unifying and salient issues are interaction and transformation. The unpredicted tripartite organization of the chapters reflects the findings of the essays, which show that narratives and counter-narratives are subsumed to a transformation process, rather than representing two fixed -- and in this case opposite -- categories, or just them. So is the dynamic perspective embedding the making of a research and the researcher's attitude, which is referred to when authors talk about their reading their papers after some time or about their involvement, or else is pointed out through the commentaries and the relevant responses.”