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From hero to villain to hero: making experience sensible through embodied narrative sensemaking
journal contribution
posted on 2014-06-12, 11:12 authored by Ann Cunliffe, Christine CouplandChristine CouplandThis article aims to make a contribution to the literature by addressing an undertheorized aspect of sensemaking: its embodied narrative nature. We do so by integrating a hermeneutic phenomenological perspective of narrative and storytelling with a documentary case taken from a filmed tour of a sports team to illustrate the process of sensemaking around a specific event. We argue that we make our lives, ourselves and our experience ‘sensible’ in embodied interpretations and interactions with others. We suggest this occurs within contested, embedded, narrative performances in which we try to construct sensible and plausible accounts that are responsive to the moment and to retrospective and anticipatory narratives.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
HUMAN RELATIONSVolume
65Issue
1Pages
63 - 88 (26)Citation
CUNLIFFE, A. and COUPLAND, C., 2012. From hero to villain to hero: making experience sensible through embodied narrative sensemaking. Human Relations, 65 (1), pp. 63 - 88.Publisher
Sage Publications / © The Author(s)Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2012Notes
This article was published in the journal, Human Relations [Sage Publications / © The Author(s)]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0018726711424321ISSN
0018-7267Publisher version
Language
- en