Narrative in Crisis

Martin Dege received PhD and MA degrees in Psychology from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and a BA from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and joined Pratt in 2020. In the past, he has worked at the American University of Paris, the University of Potsdam, the University of Konstanz, the University of Hamburg, and Yale University. Martin is the recipient of various research scholarships, including the Marie Curie Program of the EU, the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation, and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.Irene Strasser is Assistant Professor at St. Bonaventure University. Her research focuses on lifespan development with an emphasis on care work, adult development and aging. Her work is informed by critical gerontological perspectives, social justice studies, and qualitative approaches, particularly participatory and ethnographic research.

• Chapter 1: Crisis Stories: Narratives of Uncertainty and ChangeIrene Strasser and Martin Dege Part I: End of Story? Chapter 2: The (Al)lure of Narrative: Information, Misinformation, and Disinformation in the Time of CoronavirusMark Freeman Chapter 3: Stories of Crisis: Denial, Redemption, and Radical Acceptance in the Time of COVID-19 Dan P. McAdams Chapter 4: Dominant and Counteracting Narratives of 'Crisis' in COVID TimesCorinne Squire Chapter 5: The Pandemic as a Crossroads: Problematizing the Narrative of WarHanna Meretoja Chapter 6: Beyond Trauma Narratives: How the Military Siege of Sarajevo (1992-1995) Shaped Stories Told in the AftermathLuka Lucic and Guro Nore Fløgstad Part II: The Self in Crisis Chapter 7: Plotless Stories and Unthought Knowns: Aspects of Psychological Life with COVID-19Ruthellen Josselson Chapter 8: Coping Personally and Politically With World Crises: Can It Be Done Wisely?Michel Ferrari and Melanie Munroe Chapter 9: Rethinking Our Lives: COVID-19 and the Narrative ImaginationMolly Andrews Chapter 10: The Self and Its CrisesJens Brockmeier

Well-placed in the "Explorations in Narrative Psychology" series, Narratives in Crisis: Reflections from the Limits of Storytelling is an account of the COVID-19 pandemic while it was still unfolding. Covering a wide range of topics that are tackled from a variety of perspectives and accessibly written, it functions as a successful collective endeavor by scholars in Europe and the United States to understand the interjection of the everyday with an unusually high dose of the radical that the Covid-19 crisis made possible.