NarRec
Timetable: 01.09.2023- 31.08.2027
Project status: Active
Funders: Suomen Akatemia
Project budget: 450 000€ - 500 000€
Project external partners: University of Bordeaux montaigne
Sustainable development goals: Eriarvoisuuden vähentäminen
; Terveyttä ja hyvinvointia; Vastuullista kuluttamista
Keywords
- Narrative
- critical medical humanities
- lääketieteellinen humanismi
- kirjallisuusterapia
- lukupiirit
- mielenterveyskertomukset
- metanarratiivinen kirjallisuus
- narrative medicine
- pandemiatarinankerronta
- sairauskertomukset
- sociology of recovery Kerronnallinen toimijuus
- syöpäkertomukset
Summary: This project examines recovery narratives in culture, medicine, and society, from the nineteenth century through to the present day. It demonstrates that recovery is an organisational tool of medical and social management that has the power to determine access to biomedical and economic resources and services, and to systems of care, relationships, and freedoms. This study explores recovery narratives from a critical perspective that challenges, first, the assumption that recovery is inherently narrative and, second, the idea that recovery narratives conform to particular genres and conventions of optimism, progress, and success. It examines instead how recovery complicates and disrupts narrative, and how narrative itself forms and informs our understandings of recovery.
