VIDEN OG NARRATIVER SOM KONSTRUKTIONER

– om forhandlingen af det narrative og det non-humanes placering.

Abstract

The article tries to establish an empirically grounded theoretical understanding of the construction of narratives through social and semiotic processes. It is assumed that the narrative perspective often presents two problems. The first problem is that narratives privilege the history as an aggregate - a plot - which expresses an intentionality. It is demonstrated, that the intentionality and the plot presuppose a negotiation process, which precedes the narrative.
The second problem concerns the tendency within narrative perspectives and modern discursive social psychology to privilege the social and the discursive at the expense of the non-human and material in the narrative description of events.
Based on an empirical basis, the article demonstrates, how processes and interactions in the negotiation of humans narrative descriptions of themselves can be analyzed without losing the material - as non-human actants - in the psychological understanding.