This list is based on CrossRef data as of 28 december Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them. Hardbound β Available Buy now. Counter-narratives only make sense in relation to something else, that which they are countering.
The very name identifies it as a positional category, in tension with another category. But what is dominant and what is resistant are not, of course, static questions, but rather are forever shifting placements. The discussion of counter-narratives is ultimately a consideration of multiple layers of positioning. The fluidity of these relational categories is what lies at the center of the chapters and commentaries collected in this book.
The book comprises six target chapters by leading scholars in the field. Twenty-two commentators discuss these chapters from a number of diverse vantage points, followed by responses from the six original authors.
A final chapter by the editor of the book series concludes the book. Introduction to the book. Michael Bamberg and Molly Andrews p. Opening to the original contributions : Counter-narratives and the power to oppose. Molly Andrews pp. Memories of mother : Counter-narratives of early maternal influence. Blame it on psychology!? Accidental cases : Extending the concept of positioning in narrative studies. Catherine Kohler Riessman pp. Politicising mothers : Counter-narratives of mothering experience.
Leigh Coombes and Mandy Morgan pp. Socially organised use of memories of mother in narrative re-construction of problematic pasts. Kyoko Murakami pp. Karen Throsby pp. IVF failure : Reproductive normativity and dealing with disappointment. Keith Tuffin pp. When IVF fails β the success of science and medicine. Michele L. Crossley pp. On identifying counter-narratives of failed IVF. Susan E. Bell pp. Photographic visions and narrative inquiry. Barbara Harrison pp. Photographs and counter-narratives.
