Brave Space-Making: The Poetics & Politics of Storytelling
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 682
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 684
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Storytelling is a meaning-making process with catalytic capacity.
Brave Space-Making: The Poetics & Politics of Storytelling explores the generative potential of storytelling by focusing on its centrality in brave space-making. Brave spaces are spheres of possibility where participants undo in order to become, question and disrupt dominant narratives, and imagine otherwise. By extension, brave space-making is a vulnerable, risky, and often tension-riddled process of perspective-sharing, capacity-building, and creative invention.
This book features voices of scholars, teachers, artists, and poets who use narrative theory, methods, and practices to foster individual and social healing and transformation through brave space-making. Contributors offer story-based understandings of brave space-making in contexts such as prisons, farmers markets, continuing care facilities, and mobile health clinics. Through first-person narratives, ethnographic portraits, short-form stories, poetic interpretations, and even visually rendered accounts authors reveal the shapeshifting and script-flipping that occurs among dominant and counter-narratives. The book also comes with ancillary digital materials including feature-length documentaries and podcasts as well as other public and creative analytic scholarship relevant for use in organizations and classrooms alike.
The stories in Brave Space-Making follow real people reckoning with the myriad challenges and inequities that confront them in the fostering brave spaces. They invite readers to feel the embodied heartbeat of each tale, as life courses are disrupted and courageously reimagined. An aesthetic mindset allows contemplators to consider what storytelling does within and for participants. Collectively the chapters explore how storytelling can foster resilience as individuals refashion selves and reidentify priorities in the face of expectations gone awry, and the difficulties in doing so. They reveal the capacity of storytelling to foster enriching potentials through human connection. Storytelling connects past events with present states and imagined futures and as such is well suited to revealing character transformations. Taken together, chapters position brave spaces as vital for people to compose lives in ways that counter restrictive narratives and refigure people’s relationships with one another. In this way, brave space-making holds particular significance for individuals living in vulnerable circumstances.
Part 1: The Narrative Nature of Brave Space-Making
Brittany L. Peterson and Lynn M. Harter
CHAPTER 1: Imagining New Normals in Health Contexts: Narrative Features, Forms, and Functions
Lynn M. Harter, Brittany L. Peterson, Kayla Duty, & Taylor M. Walker
CHAPTER 2: Even after the Ending: Narrative and Arts-Based Methods for Telling Continuing Tales of Survivorship
Laura L. Ellingson & Parwana Khazi
CHAPTER 3: Identity Fragmentation and Fieldwork: A Confessional Tale
Sydney Graham & Lacy G. McNamee
CHAPTER 4: At a Loss For/words Studio: Practicing the Art of Mad Grief
Erin K. Willer
CHAPTER 5: Teaching Engineering Ethics through Storytelling
Megan Kenny Feister, Patrice M. Buzzanell, & Carla B. Zoltowski
Part 2: Storytelling and Embodied Sensemaking
Lynn M. Harter & Dani Galek
CHAPTER 6: “Will I die too?” Unknotting Memories as a Kosovar War Child
Erjona Gashi
CHAPTER 7: Stories as Clinical Knowledge in Medical Education: Improving Future Physicians’ Ability to Thrive in the Midst of Uncertainty
Anna M. Kerr
CHAPTER 8: Lessons Learned: A Conversation with a Fifth Year Medical Student about Building Brave Spaces in Medical Schools
Alyssa Brogden & Sharon Casapulla
CHAPTER 9: Worlds at Risk: Using Dialogical Reading of Patient Narratives to Eliminate Racial Bias in Medicine
Oshea D. Johnson, Berkeley Franz, & John W. Murphy
CHAPTER 10: Storying (In)Authentic Performances of Athletic Injury
Alaina C. Zanin
Part 3: The Aesthetics of Storying Possible Worlds
Lynn M. Harter & Chuck W. Kaminski
CHAPTER 11: The Narrative Capacities of Arts Programming in Healthcare Contexts
Lynn M. Harter, Margaret M. Quinlan, & Stephanie M. Pangborn
CHAPTER 12: Alzheimer’s and Artful Rebellion: Coloring Outside the Lines, Playing with Scissors, and Seeing You
Stephanie M. Pangborn
CHAPTER 13: “Tell Me More…”: Six-Word Stories as a Start
Brittany L. Peterson, Lynn M. Harter, & Taylor M. Walker
CHAPTER 14: Fostering Vulnerability, Making Brave Spaces, and Transforming Worlds in 55 Words: Writing 55-Word Stories for Healthcare Teaching, Research, and Practice
Brianna R. Cusanno, Lindy Grief Davidson, & Nivethitha Ketheeswaran
CHAPTER 15: Serving Life (Paws Up!): The Poetic Possibilities of Rescued Second Chances
Jill Yamasaki
CHAPTER 16: “I’m a week into IVF”: Amy Schumer, Poetic Inquiry, and Narrative Co-construction
Bethany L. Johnson, Margaret M. Quinlan, & Anna Grace Thrailkill
CHAPTER 17: 20/20 Vision: Osteopathic Medical Students and Educators Set the Pandemic to Verse
Joseph A. Bianco, Amanda Martinez, Chynna D. Smith, Anna M. Kerr, Taylor Walker, Tiandra Finch, Lynn M. Harter, & Sharon Casapulla
Part 4: Re/Storying Organizational Scripts
Brittany L. Peterson & Danielle C. Biss
CHAPTER 18: Co-Cultural Stories of Racialized Trauma, Vulnerability, and Empowerment: A Collective Autoethnography of Negotiating Academic Whitespeak and Whitespace
Mark P. Orbe, Ashlee A. Lambert, Evelyn B. Winfield-Thomas, & Ashley R. Hall
CHAPTER 19: And All Because She Was/n’t Believed…Composite Narratives and Dialogic Data Debriefing as Disruption
Brittany L. Peterson, Courtney N. Hook, & Madison F. Sloat
CHAPTER 20: Embracing Narrative Logics, Enriching Organizational Interactions, and Humanizing Medicine
Lynn M. Harter, Brittany L. Peterson, & Danielle C. Biss
CHAPTER 21: Searching for Synergy in Singapore: Resistance, Resilience, and Integrating Health Care
Barbara F. Sharf
CHAPTER 22: Cheerleaders, Champions, and Connectors: Cultivating Inclusive Healthcare Through Mobile Health Clinics
Karen L. Deardorff
CHAPTER 23: The Role of Origin Narratives in Nonprofit Organizing
Kristen E. Okamoto
Part 5: Catalyzing Social Change through Disruptive Storytelling
Caroline E. Wilson, Samuel J. Taylor, & Brittany L. Peterson
CHAPTER 24: From “Sin” to “Sacrifice”: Adoption Stories of Birth Mother Bravery
Anna Wiederhold Wolfe
CHAPTER 25: (Re)storying Appalachia: Navigating the Tensions of Place-Based Narrative Labor
Sonia R. Ivancic
CHAPTER 26: One School Leader’s Storied Response to the Opioid Crisis: A Narrative on Moral Literacy
Charles L. Lowery & Michael E. Hess
CHAPTER 27: Stories for Social Impact: Narrative Sensemaking and the Approval of a Novel Food Allergy Therapy
Jennifer J. Bute & Amy M. Applegate
CHAPTER 28: Permutations of Aesthetic Presence, Imagination, and Storytelling in the Slow Food Movement
Michael L. Broderick, Taylor L. Jackson, & Kathryn Hobson
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Brittany L. Peterson (PhD, University of Texas at Austin) is an associate professor in the School of Communication Studies and the Director of E-Learning for the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University. She aims to understand (and upend assumptions surrounding) the communicative construction of membership in organizations. Her scholarship investigates varied experiences including involuntary membership, “high stakes” and traditional voluntary membership, and stigmatized membership with an eye toward agency, ownership, tension, identity, narrative, empowerment, and community. Dr. Peterson’s work has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Management Communication Quarterly, Communication Monographs, Health Communication, Western Journal of Communication, Communication Quarterly, and Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly as well as in edited books.
Lynn M. Harter (PhD, University of Nebraska) is a professor and co-director of the Barbara Geralds Institute for Storytelling and Social Impact in the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University. Her scholarship and teaching focus on the construction of possibility as individuals and groups organize for survival and social change amid embodied differences. She is committed to engaged scholarship in which she works with community members to explore what stories do for individuals and groups and develop narrative-based interventions. She has published more than 75 journal articles and book chapters, produced an Emmy award-winning documentary series for PBS, and is producer and host of the “Defining Moments Podcast” in partnership with the academic journal Health Communication.