LIST OF PANELS

This panel is closed to paper proposal.

In the last decade, there has been a growing recognition of the need to understand the role and power of narratives in the policy process. Notably, within this subset of scholars who share a passion for this area of research and writing, narrative scholars also engender pluralistic perspectives that reside at multiple places on the ontological and epistemological continua. The goal of this Roundtable on Narratives and the Policy Process is to engage a macro-level discussion about the role of narratives from our multiple perspectives. The participants will engage in a discussion of covering such topics as (a) assumptions of how narratives operate in policy decision making, (b) definitions of what is a narrative, (c) methods of analysis or understanding, (d) examples of in praxis. Scholars involved in our roundtable discussion are: Claudio Radaelli and Claire Dunlop (overview of perspectives and methods); Frank Fischer (interpretivist/critical theory); Anna Durnova (emotions/affect and narratives); Philip Leifeld and Karen Ingold (discourse and network analysis); Elizabeth Shanahan and Michael Jones (Narrative Policy Framework).