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How stories make it: antenarrative, graffiti and dead calves

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Published
Publication date2015
Host publicationUntold stories in organisations
EditorsMichal Izak, Linda Hitchin, David Anderson
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherRoutledge
Pages285-317
Number of pages33
ISBN (print)9781138790018
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Publication series

NameRoutledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
PublisherRoutledge

Abstract

This chapter aims to conceptualise narrative processes and the interaction between antenarratives and also to offer a method to explore this. Graffiti is used as a metaphor to highlight the ideological and interactional character of story and the intentional aspects of storytelling. Graffiti draws attention to what may be told and what must be untold to produce narrative coherence. It also demonstrates the vulnerability of any telling to what is temporarily excluded. This is illustrated through media coverage of two antenarratives about male dairy calves. Extension will allow a more complex understanding of organisations as participants within an unbounded and contested field of antenarratives.