Counter-Narrative

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How Progressive Academics Can Challenge Extremists and Promote Social Justice

By H.L. Goodall Jr

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In Counter-Narrative, H.L. Goodall Jr exposes a world embroiled in a narrative arms race where far-right political messaging has outpaced that of the left. He reveals how these narratives edge closer to those used by right-wing extremists globally. Rather than dismissing political narratives as mere tactics, Goodall emphasises their power and presents strategies for liberal academics to reclaim public discourse from extremist influence. This insightful work is vital for aspiring public intellectuals and appeals to students and scholars of qualitative methods, communications, media, and political science.
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This book is suited for students and scholars in qualitative research, communications, media studies, political science, and those interested in social justice, rhetoric, and public discourse. It is especially relevant to aspiring public intellectuals and readers seeking to understand and counteract extremist narratives in contemporary politics.

In this passionate defense of the use of narrative work for progressive purposes, Goodall shows how to use stories effectively in moving the world away from extremism and toward social justice.

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Goodall portrays a world caught up in the middle of a narrative arms race, where the message of the political right has outflanked the message of the political left. It is a world where narratives used by the far right inch ever closer to those employed by right-wing extremists in the Muslim world.

Rather than dismiss the use of political narratives as a shallow tactic of the opposition, Goodall promotes their usefulness and outlines a number of ways that liberal academics can retake the public discourse from the extremist opposition.

Counter-Narrative is an essential text for the aspiring public intellectual and will appeal to students and scholars of qualitative methods, communications and media, and political science alike.

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Lawrence R. Frey hails the book as "a rhetorical tour de force," praising it for providing a compelling counter to far-right views and reclaiming the democratic aim to promote the common good. Norman K. Denzin describes it as "impassioned" and "incisive," challenging extremists and offering a core narrative that fosters critique, resistance, and utopian imagination. Together, the reviews highlight the book’s importance in defending progressive agendas and enriching critical discourse.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781598745634

Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 October 2010

Country: United States

Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

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Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 294g

Pages: 207

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About the Author

H. L. (Bud) Goodall, Jr. is Professor of Communication and former Director of the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. He is the author or co-author of 20 books and over 100 articles, chapters, and papers. His edited volume, with Steve Corman and Angela Trethewey, Weapons of Mass Persuasion: Strategic Communication and the War of Ideas includes is currently required reading for members of the defense and intelligence communities. A pioneer in the field of narrative ethnography he has study high technology organizations, rock n roll bands, alternative forms of religion and spirituality in the southern United States, and recast his own life story in A Need to Know: The Clandestine History of a CIA Family (Left Coast, 2006). With Eric Eisenberg and Angela Trethewey, he is the co-author of the award-winning best textbook, Organizational Communication: Balancing Creativity and Constraint, now in its fifth edition, and he authored the highly acclaimed Writing the New Ethnography and Writing Qualitative Inquiry. His most recent work is in applying theories of communication and narratives to the challenge of countering ideological support for terrorism.