Creating Meaning From Chaos
Narrative and Dialogic Encounters in Family Crisis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2385653 |
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| Authors | Laura D Russell (Denison University, Granville, OH, USA), Laura Russell (0000-0003-1267-9359, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 391-400 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1077800412439525 |
| OpenAlex | W2146537847 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
The event of a family crisis calls for crucial reactions with kin in response to intense uncertainty. In this autoethnographic reflection, the author narrates her family's struggle for meaning after learning that her brother suffered a near-fatal fall from a mountain peak of the Grand Tetons. In this article, the author depicts various perspectives she witnessed as her family dealt with multiple ambiguities surrounding her brother's accident. The author then explores how crisis awakens an individual's attention to present time and summons him or her to reorient his or her temporal self to focus on immediate moments. Moreover, the author demonstrates how dialogue and narrative interweave to shape family members' interpretations of unprecedented circumstances and new relational meanings
Accident (philosophy · Aesthetics · Autoethnography · Brother · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Narrative · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Summons · Anthropology · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Gender Studies · Innovative Education and Learning Practices · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
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| Highly cited | No |
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