Narrating migration, narrating futures

Social narratives on global power dynamics in Cameroon and the Cameroonian diaspora
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-662-72007-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 400 g

Reihe: Literatur und Postmigration

The book revolves around narrative as an intriguing, as well as intricate object of analysis and demonstrates how theoretically sound and empirically founded narrative research can look like. Migration is imbued, motivated, and shaped by imagination. Based on the everyday language around migration in Cameroon, the author is exploring social narratives about migration and their relationship with the global. Migration storytelling is a cultural force which speaks about people and their lives to the fullest: What they aspire to, the risks they take, and the stories they tell about all of it.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gärtner, Marlene

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction.- Narrative Research in Theory and Practice.- Global imaginaries and local imagining.- Narratives of conflict, crisis, and belonging.- Narrating an Elsewhere.- Narrating the global.- The diaspora narrates.- Conclusion.- References.

Über Autor(innen)

Marlene Gärtner is a literary scholar and a cultural scientist, currently holding a post-doc research position at the University of Education in Schwäbisch Gmünd.