As a confessed gentrifier, I prefer my own lived narrative of a changing Harlem - a story that uses a blended set of observed and data-driven indicators to establish the presence of economic (affordability) and cultural (racial composition and ethnic preferences) gentrification, and whether its outcomes have produced positive benefits for all.
Both Groenhout and Dodds emphasize the holistic nature of human persons, their particular social contexts, the centrality of emotional responses in ethical reasoning, and the implausibility of judging actions separated from the lived narratives that confer meaning on them.
The stage, as she observes in her book (much of it written within commuting distance from Silicon Valley), is "the yang of technology's yin," meaning "live experience, narrative, character, immersion".
What happened to me was a small precursor to a much larger narrative and we are still living that narrative and we still need to fight that fight".
When he was not providing live narrative to the sound and light of bombs bursting around him, he was giving interviews about himself to news organizations in the United States.
Rather, I think, we should recognise him as an author with sympathies beyond the European, who engaged both with contemporary literature and with live narrative traditions on the point of extinction – and who could turn bare bones into the most wonderful soup.
While previously the only reason to leave the spotlight was to study (like Natalie Portman, James Franco and Anna Chlumsky) or abandon showbusiness altogether (Macaulay Culkin), social media has given young actors and musicians a means of seizing control of their lives' narrative and dictating the terms of their own well-being.
We are in danger of living parallel narratives.
"Family counselling is one of the most effective tools … nothing is a stronger source for creating a living counter-narrative to radical ideals than the deep attachments and emotions harnessed in a family.
Humans are real storytelling animals: most of our lives we live in narrative form.
