Inside Story

How Narratives Drive Mass Harm

Lois Presser (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2018
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29017-4 (ISBN)

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Stories have persuasive powers: they can influence how a person thinks and acts. Inside Story explores the capacity of stories to direct our thinking, heighten our emotions, and thereby motivate people to do harm to others and to tolerate harm done by others. From terrorist violence to “mere” complacency with institutionalized harm, the book weds case study to cross-disciplinary theory. It builds upon timely work in the field of narrative criminology and provides a thorough analysis of how stories can promote or inhibit harmful action. By offering a sociological analysis of the emotional yet intersubjective experience of dangerous stories, the book fleshes out the perplexing mechanics of cultural influence on crime and other forms of harm.

Lois Presser is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of Been a Heavy Life: Stories of Violent Men and Why We Harm and coeditor of Narrative Criminology: Understanding Stories of Crime with Sveinung Sandberg.

Preface

1. Introduction: Narratives and Narrative Impacts
2. The Cultural Grounds of Mass Harm
3. Emotion, Narrative, and Transcendence
4. The Invitational Edge of Underdog Stories
5. Becoming Criminal: A Hegemonic Story of Antisociality
6. Better Living in Story Worlds

Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.10.2018
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
ISBN-10	0-520-29017-8 / 0520290178
ISBN-13	978-0-520-29017-4 / 9780520290174
Zustand	Neuware