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I found myself smiling when I read that, because those are exactly the kinds of
stories that captivated me during my first encounters with narrative practice.
Stories that re-identified people as competent members of moral communities.
Stories about people with feelings and intentions, hopes and dreams.
People who faced difficult situations and did their best to handle them. People
who, despite overwhelming circumstances, had done their best to offer quiet or
vocal resistance and try to create lives and relationships that were in line with
what they preferred.
Or, in other words, competent moral agents.
Is There a Particular Perspective at Play in These Counter-Narratives?
I recently reread Allan Wade9s article
