School of Social Work, Sapir Academic College, Sderot, Israel.
Br J Soc Psychol. 2020 Oct;59(4):1043-1061. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12376. Epub 2020 Mar 31.
Narrative psychology emphasizes the role of culture in shaping identities. Less attention has been paid to how individuals resist culture. Specifically, two aspects have remained understudied: the diverse forms of doing narrative resistance and the navigation between different types of master narratives involved in the process. The present study aimed to fill these gaps by examining the personal stories of former residents of Yamit, an Israeli region in the Sinai Peninsula that was evacuated following the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt. Holistic narrative analysis of the personal stories revealed three strategies of resisting the episodic master narrative of Yamit established in Israeli society - explicit debate, implicit debate, and neutralization - which differ in the relative weight of my/our story and the story about us. To remain within the Israeli consensus, resistance to the episodic master narrative was intertwined with appropriation of the Zionist foundational master narrative. The study demonstrates that narrative resistance can take diverse forms and simultaneously involve compliance with and resistance to different types of master narratives. Investigating these two findings offers a nuanced understanding of counter-narratives as multifaceted, illuminating the complex relationships between personal stories and culture.
叙事心理学强调文化在塑造身份认同方面的作用。但人们对个体如何抵抗文化的关注较少。具体来说，有两个方面仍未得到充分研究：叙事抵抗的多种形式以及在涉及的不同类型的主导叙事之间进行的导航。本研究旨在通过检查前亚米特居民的个人故事来填补这些空白，亚米特是以色列西奈半岛的一个地区，在以色列和埃及之间的和平协议签署后被撤离。对个人故事的整体叙事分析揭示了三种抵抗以色列社会中建立的亚米特情节性主导叙事的策略——明确辩论、隐含辩论和中立化——这些策略在我的/我们的故事和关于我们的故事的相对重要性上有所不同。为了保持以色列的共识，对情节性主导叙事的抵制与对犹太复国主义基础主导叙事的挪用交织在一起。该研究表明，叙事抵抗可以采取多种形式，同时涉及对不同类型的主导叙事的遵守和抵制。调查这两个发现提供了对反叙事的细致理解，反叙事是多方面的，阐明了个人故事和文化之间的复杂关系。
