The Fractured Self: Exploring Selfhood in the Neuronovel The Echo Maker and the Neuromemoir Brain on Fire by Bonnie Cross

“…I argue that The Echo Maker and Brain on Fire complicate the perception of selfhood as the main character in each text can no longer trust their own perceptions and must instead weave together their fragmented personal experience, background from their social groups, and scientific explanations of their conditions to regain a sense of self. The narratives of The Echo Maker and Brain on Fire combine these different perspectives in an effort to regain a sense of selfhood that brain damage has fractured. …”
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Tacit Racism Toward Roma Students: The Case of a Turkish Public School by Ozan Uştuk

“…Navigating cognitive dissonance, teachers frequently redirect their focus toward the behaviors of Roma people due to a sense of helplessness and the influence of the pervasive meritocratic narrative. This dynamic contributes to the perpetuation of institutional racism through the daily discourse of teachers, which inadvertently exacerbates this systemic issue.…”
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The Incredible Shrinking Man in Paul Auster’s Report from the Interior: The Film and the Myths by Marie GOURRUT

“…The Incredible Shrinking Man, one of the two “written films” (quoted in Gonzalès 18) that Auster narrates in Report from the Interior, turns the book, as in The Book of Illusions, into a virtual screen, showing how influential the 1957 Universal Pictures production was to fabricate both Auster’s auctorial identity and his various characters’ identities. …”
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Conceptual approaches in combating health inequity: A scoping review protocol. by Michelle Amri, Liban Mohamood, Cristián Mansilla, Kathryn Barrett, Jesse B Bump

“…Screening will be conducted by two independent reviewers and data will be charted, coded, and narratively synthesized.<h4>Discussion</h4>We anticipate developing a foundational document compiling categories of approaches and discussing the nuances inherent in each conceptualization to promote clarified and united action.…”
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Capitalising on conjunctures: Tesla’s ups and downs in financialised capitalism by Tobias Klinge, Stefan Ouma, Reijer Hendrikse

“…Among these, meticulously maintained narratives, boosted by social media, attracted dedicated followers, while the rise of new retail trading platforms and excitement around Tesla’s index inclusion helped in producing its stock ‘mementum’. …”
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Blended Supervision of Theses: by Md. Mahadhi Hasan, Sabrina Khanom, Al Mahmud Rumman, Kaniz Fatema

“…We conducted this qualitative research using the narrative method and a purposive sampling technique. …”
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Getting ready for the Second World War. Fascist Propaganda and Ideology in L’Avventuroso (1938–40) by Manuela Di Franco

“…The study also employs qualitative discourse analysis to trace the alignment of narrative structures with Fascist ideology. By examining nationalistic and propaganda contents in L’Avventuroso, the article provides a nuanced understanding of how Fascist policies at the onset of World War II influenced the publishing of comics, offering insights into the regime’s use of children’s media as a tool for propaganda.…”
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Rod Hill and Tony Myatt, The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Microeconomics (Book Review, Fernwood Publishing Ltd, 2010, 296 p.) by İnan Gidiş

“…This dual presentation provides readers with an insightful comparison, where the authors systematically challenge and question the assumptions and narratives commonly found in economic education. The book covers a wide range of topics, including market structures, efficiency, externalities, income distribution, government intervention, and globalization. …”
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Non-take-up as a social experience. Towards a typology of not claiming social benefits by Barbara Lucas

“…More precisely, we identify four meanings of not claiming social benefits in the narratives of the people interviewed, which are captured through four figures: Non-take-up as a means to combat social exclusion (Mr. …”
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Raconter la Partition de l’Inde : une impossible histoire des femmes ? by Anne Castaing

“…In the light of literary texts written in the aftermath of Partition, this article aims to question the paradoxical role of literary texts in creating the master narratives of Partition, and more specifically in reconstituting a women’s history.…”
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Commerce and Sentiment in Tales of Barbary Encounter: Cathcart, Barlow, Markoe, Tyler, and Rowson by Andrew S. Gross

“…This essay sketches the history of the Barbary conflict and considers three fictionalized accounts of Barbary encounter as secular conversion narratives, two of the three demonstrating how even despotic slaveholders could learn to embrace commerce and sentiment.  …”
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Places of Memory in the Red Vyborg of 1918 by Outi Fingerroos

“…At the same time the official history was put on a favourable form and there were clear limits for the official narratives. The victory of the “Whites” was interpreted as a victory for the independence of the Finnish nation. …”
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The homily as a way to the synodal Church.The possibility of building a responsible laity by Janez Vodičar

“…The first forms of evangelization were narratives of personal experiences with Jesus. With the formation of structures in the Church, the role of authority in official proclamation in worship also developed. …”
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Histoire environnementale et histoire du tourisme en montagne : vers la construction d’une connaissance nouvelle ? Une étude de l’architecture des stations de sports d’hiver dans l... by Caterina Franco

“…Our work invites researchers to move beyond the image of infrastructure built “ex nihilo” or on so-called “virgin” sites and a narrative limited to the period of the “Trente Glorieuses” to reveal the dynamics of how a territory transforms over time.…”
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Adieu, de Balzac : « Une absence au monde qui vient de se déclarer au cœur de l’histoire » by France Vernier

“…There is, however, a less known short story, Adieu, which subject displays an astonishingly modern preoccupation, quite unusual for the period, obliging the author to invent a strange new narrative device, which I believe Balzac borrowed from the then recently discovered psychiatric practice implemented by Esquirol. …”
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Unitarianism and Social Reconciliation in North and South by Ipek Kotan Yiğit

“…Although this point has been overlooked relative to the critical focus placed on relations between the ruling class and the workers, it is nonetheless an important element of the narrative and, moreover, a distinctly Unitarian one. …”
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Pavement policies: unraveling the Norwegian ban on skateboarding by Tommy Langseth, Nils Asle Bergsgard

“…We argue that neither narrative alone is sufficient, proposing instead that other mechanisms were at play. …”
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Towards Symbiocene: Simulation and Extrapolation of Environmental Inevitability in Ecofiction by Pooja Agarwal

“…While nature is a concrete and palpable entity, the othering of it is a linguistic construct. Literary narratives are significant part of our everyday discourse and their efficacy in positing an alternative worldview cannot be undermined. …”
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Crises and the history of science: a materialist rehabilitation by Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh, Rory Kent, James Poskett

“…Over the past four decades, historians of science have come to discard crisis as a guiding heuristic in ‘big-picture’ narratives of scientific change. In this article, we argue that it can be rehabilitated without reintroducing the conceptual drawbacks of earlier historiographies. …”
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Children who survive torture: A systematic review of screening, documentation and treatment of torture injuries in children by Catarina Nahlén Bose, Ronak Tamdjidi

“…However, there was a tendency that Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) significantly reduced PTSD up to three months to one year after the end of treatment. …”
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