This thesis documents the everyday experiences of adults with disabilities living in a rural area of South Africa. Given South Africa’s tumultuous history, characterised by human rights violations incurred through cultural, political and racial disputes, and the country’s current state of socio-economic and political turmoil, violence has come to represent a core feature in the lives of many South Africans. This, together with the impact of unemployment, food insecurity and unequal power distribution, has significantly affected the ways in which many people make sense of their life experiences. Despite the fact that exposure to unequal power dynamics, violence, marginalisation and exclusion are documented to dominate the life experiences of people with disabilities, little is understood about the ways in which these aspects manifest in the interpretation and reconstruction of experiences. Previous research into the field of disability studies has depended primarily on quantitative measures, or on the reports of family members and caregivers as proxies, perpetuating the cycle of voicelessness and marginalization amongst adults with disabilities. Those studies which have adopted qualitative measures in order to explore the psychosocial experiences of disability have focussed largely on the limitations imposed by physical access, and have relied predominantly on the medical and social models of disability, or on the World Health Organisation’s International Classification on Functioning, Disability and Health (WHO ICF, 2001). These models consider the psychosocial experience of disability to be universal, and do not adequately take into account the impact of cultural and contextual variables. This has negatively impacted on the establishment of a research repository upon which evidence-based practice has been developed. This thesis aimed to explore and document the lived experiences of 30 adults with a variety of disabilities, living in 12 rural villages in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa. A combination of narrative inquiry and participant observation was employed in order to examine the relationship between personal and social interpretations of experience. Data analysis was conducted using a combination of Clandinin and Connelly’s (2000) Three Dimensional Narrative Inquiry Space, Harré’s Positioning Theory (1990, 1993, & 2009), and Thematic Analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006). Results revealed that narratives were plurivocal in nature, giving rise to a complex relationship between personal and social interpretations of experience. The findings highlighted the impact of cultural norms, values and roles on making sense of experiences associated with disability. Four new types of narrative emerged, none of which conformed to the current interpretations of lived experience as reported in the literature. All of the narratives were pervaded by the embodied experience of violence, including evidence of structural, physical, psychological and sexual violence, as well as violence by means of deprivation. This gave rise to a sense of moral decay and highlighted the ways in which abuse of power has become woven into lived experience. In this way insight was gained into the complex interplay between impairment, exclusion, high mortality rates, violence, and poverty in rural areas. Narrative inquiry proved to be a particularly useful tool for providing insight into disability as a socio-cultural construct, drawing attention to a variety of clinical, policy and theoretical implications. These gave rise to a number of broader philosophical questions pertaining to the role of memory, vulnerability and responsibility, and the ways in which all citizens have the potential to be complicit in denying the reality of lived experience amongst vulnerable members of society. These findings demand attention to the ways in which governments, communities and individuals conceive of what it means to be human, and consequently how the ethics of care is embraced within society.

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, University of the Witwatersrand, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Johannesburg, November 2015 / The purpose of this research is to explore the role of courage in leadership. A review of the relevant literature showed that leadership has been widely studied but is still not well understood while courage has scarcely been studied and is still diversely defined. It has been found that courage rarely has a place in leadership and management frameworks. Leaders in Mauritius were interviewed on their experiences of courage. As this research is of exploratory nature, a qualitative design was adopted and unstructured interviews were used. A Narrative Analysis of the transcripts was carried out in a two-step process: Stories were extracted from the interview transcripts in a deductive manner using a three-dimensional approach consisting of personal, social and temporal dimensions. The stories were then inductively analysed to derive meaning from them using thematic and performative analysis. This research has three main contributions. First, the manifestation of courage follows a cycle of four stages, starting from the Trigger Stage, followed by the Barrier Stage, Thoughts & Actions Stage and Ending Stage. Throughout the life of the leader, one cycle feeds the next cycle and so on. Furthermore, the contexts under which courage were displayed were: Change, Pro-Active Vision, Identity Tensions and Response. Second, the following drivers of courage were identified: the external drivers Greater Cause, Support, and Sacrificing Something, and the internal disposition courage drivers Positive & Forward Looking, Self-Consciousness, Calculated Risk-taking, Values & Beliefs, Emotional Balance & Control, Prior Experience, Perseverance & Focus, and Ownership & Independency. The internal courage drivers activated in the transition between the Trigger and Barrier stages were equivalent to “Courage to Be” while the external courage drivers activated between the Barrier and Thoughts & Actions stages were equivalent to “Courage to Act”. Furthermore, it was found that leadership skills act as mere facilitators of courage and courage drivers need to be present to drive courageous acts. It was also seen that some of the drivers of courage are very close to qualities of authentic leadership. Third, the research has made a methodological contribution in terms of the development of a systematic approach to the use of narrative analysis in management research. The implications from the findings are that courage development cannot be excluded from leadership development and can start in schools as well as in organisations as an on-going process, and that the methods of analysis developed in this research can be applied. / MB2016

The Great War was unprecedented both in its devastation and in the significance people attached to it, which this dissertation contends led to a crisis of representation that manifested in literary tropes and discourses of sterility. Some authors used sterility to represent the war as a cultural and historical apocalypse, others as a basis for questioning how literature, Western civilization, and humanity itself could continue after such a catastrophe. "Static Chaos" theorizes how thematic renderings of sterility work alongside modernist formal experimentation to sever reproductive literary traditions. The widespread instances of sterility reveal the deep effects of the war on non-combatants as well as combatants, as demonstrated through analysis of novels by a diverse group of authors from Britain and United States--Rebecca West, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Claude McKay, and Ford Madox Ford. The study moves chronologically yet it also follows a narrative logic of thwarted human sexual experience beginning with novels focused upon problematic virginity, then those depicting the inability or unwillingness to procreate, and then one preoccupied with pregnancy overshadowed by illegitimacy and stillbirth. This dissertation draws upon trauma theory and grief and mourning theory, which reveal how, in addition to individual experiences of psychological trauma, the war disabled traditional means of coping, leading to a widespread inability to mourn that was traumatizing in itself. I name this state "traumatic grief" and argue that its pervasiveness led authors to break with a longstanding interconnection between making war and making babies. "Static Chaos" also expands theories that diagnose narrative's mimetic relationship to human sexual intercourse and sexuality, particularly those of Judith Roof and Lee Edelman who assert narrative's heterosexuality based on its traditional logic of continuation. I argue that post-war formal experimentation in modernist literature renders narrative metaphorically sterile by disrupting reproductive traditions and conventions. These formal components include generic manipulation, representations of inversion and paradox, ambiguous or inconclusive endings, and parodic or circular plot structures. Together with themes of sterility, these formal elements work to depict the post-war world as fixed in a barren wasteland, trapped in static chaos.

Thesis advisor: Bonnie Jefferson / “Any one of the prisoners would have been willing to die for his country” (Chesley 68). This quote summarizes the unbreakable will of heroic American Prisoners of War (POWs). This paper explores the personal narratives of four POWs who were held captive during World War II and four who were held during the Vietnam War and seeks to determine how their discourse affects American ideologies of war. By examining these narratives through narrative criticism and Kenneth Burke’s Rhetoric of Rebirth, this analysis shows how POWs reveal the sociopolitical environments of the countries in which they are held by structuring their experiences under a common framework. While the four narratives concerning World War II shed light on the differences in captivity between different countries in the Axis Powers, the narratives from the Vietnam War rationalize American involvement in the conflict. Even though the Vietnam War was one of the most misunderstood and unpopular events in American history, this paper shows how personal POW accounts can justify and garner support for American intervention into foreign affairs. These survival narratives reveal a depth of human strength in the face of horrible circumstances that becomes an inspiration for audiences of this discourse. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2010. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: College Honors Program. / Discipline: Communication.

Esta dissertação expõe os resultados da pesquisa realizada acerca da problemática da finalidade e da significação inerente ao ensino de redação de narrativas; atividade de linguagem comum aos cursos de Língua Portuguesa do ensino básico a partir do sexto ano do nível fundamental até a terceira série do nível médio, ministrados, obrigatoriamente, por professores formados e licenciados em Letras/Português. O ponto de partida para a pesquisa foi o reconhecimento de que a escrita de narrativas na escola ainda se encontra entre as atividades de menor relevância, visto que esse tipo de texto não é cobrado em exames vestibulares e nem faz parte da produção de conhecimento científico. Tanto quanto acontece com os conhecimentos artísticos em geral, o ensino de narrativas é tratado como um exercício de criatividade, de expressão subjetiva e, por conseguinte, pouco adequado ao trabalho de formação racional e política que a escola deve desenvolver. Em síntese, tudo indica que as atividades de escrita de narrativas podem ser prazerosas, mas não produzem conhecimento relevante do mundo. Considerando que o ensino de narrativa, particularmente da escrita desse tipo de texto, pode produzir conhecimentos significativos caso essa prática esteja adequadamente fundamentada em teorias apropriadas à compreensão da narrativa como fenômeno literário, mas também como modo do discurso historiográfico e de outros discursos das ciências humanas, decidiu-se realizar um estudo exploratório da relação entre ação de linguagem e narratividade estabelecida pela Hermenêutica de Paul Ricoeur, visando a encontrar fundamentos possíveis às significações intencionais a serem objetivadas com o ensino de redação de narrativas, considerando como hipóteses: a) a narrativa é uma forma singular de compreensão do si mesmo, mas também do mundo e da humanidade em razão de sua tessitura constituir ligações significativas e coerentes entre acontecimentos e ações; b) a narrativa é um modo essencial de conhecimento, porque privilegia a reflexão sobre as ações e interações humanas e estas experiências existenciais só podem ser reconhecidas como modo de ser comum, quando verbalizadas e comunicadas; c) o ensino de narrativa põe em movimento importantes fatores de elaboração estética e simbólica. / This thesis is the result of a research conducted to investigate problems, significance and issues related to the teaching of writing of narratives. This is a commonplace activity in Portuguese language classes in middle and high school in Brazil, conducted only by teachers holding a bachelors degree in Portuguese Language and Literature. The drive for the research was the awareness that writing of narratives at school is still regarded as a minor activity, mostly because this text genre is not required in college entrance exams nor is used in academic or scientific essays writing. As much as any artistic knowledge, teaching of narratives is usually seen merely as an exercise of creativity, a subjective and individual way of expression, inadequate for the rational and political training targeted by school formal education. In short, it seems that writing of narratives can be a pleasant pastime but does not bring forth substantial understanding of the world. It is our understanding that teaching of narratives, particularly the writing, can be valuable for a large range of knowledge acquisition. This, however, occurs only if the teaching methodology relies on theories that consider narrative not only as a literary phenomenon but also as a type of historiographical, as well as other social sciences, discourse. From this starting point, an exploratory research was conducted to investigate the relationship between language and narrativity as established in Paul Ricouers hermeneutics. Its main purpose is to establish potential theoretical bases for the teaching of writing of narratives to support the construction of intended meanings. Our basic hypotheses are: a) the narrative is a particular kind of selfawareness and understanding of the world and mankind, as far as its structure creates significant and logical relations between events and actions; b) the narrative encourages meditation about human actions and mutual influences, thus being an essential category of knowledge, that allows people to perceive existential experiences as common when voiced and shared; c) the teaching of narratives stimulates the elaboration of relevant esthetic and symbolic features.

[pt] Esta dissertação cuida da correlação entre homem traduzido do mundo contemporâneo e o homem cordial brasileiro, estabelecendo um paralelo revelador da presença de aspectos da modernidade, inclusive, mas não exclusivamente, socioeconômicos, na cena pós-moderna multicultural e urbana, a partir da premissa de que não há uma efetiva ruptura entre estes dois momentos. Para o desenvolvimento do tema, são considerados elementos que envolvam o processo de globalização econômica, cultural e política, inseridos na dinâmica do capitalismo cibernético, além do debate teórico que cuida da crise de identidade do homem contemporâneo e da busca por espaços híbridos, por hibridação e por transdiferença, com enfoque em certas narrativas e certas personagens da literatura e do cinema brasileiros. / [en] This text concerns the relation between the translated man of the contemporary world and the Brazilian cordial man. It establishes a parallel that reveals aspects of modernity (including, but not exclusively, socio-economic ones) in the multicultural, postmodern and urban scene, considering that there is not an effective rupture between these two moments. In order to develop the subject, we consider elements that involve the economic, cultural and politic process of globalization inserted in the dynamics of the cyber capitalism, along with the theoretical debate about the identity crisis of the contemporary man and the search for hybrid spaces by means of hybridism processes and by transdifference, focusing on certain narrations and characters of the Brazilian literature and cinema.

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Special Education, Counseling and Student Affairs / Doris W. Carroll / According to SAMHSA statistics, about 22 million people in the US meet the criteria for a Substance Use Disorder (SUD), with alcohol use disorders (AUDs) being the most prevalent form of SUD. Of those with SUDs, only 10% or two million receive formal treatment. It is estimated that 64% of those completing treatment for SUDs relapse within the first year of sobriety. However, for individuals who manage to make it five years without relapsing, the risk of relapse reduces to 14%, suggesting that the needs of individuals in short-term recovery differ from those in long-term recovery. It has also been found that family involvement in the treatment and recovery process is beneficial to individuals in recovery. However, SUDs contribute to elevated levels of stress and dissatisfaction in couples and families, which puts them at high risk for divorce or dissolution prior to individuals seeking treatment. For families who remain intact until the individual completes treatment, the transition to a recovery lifestyle that supports the individual’s recovery presents a different set of challenges. Additionally, lingering frustrations and resentments from the period of active addiction may also serve to destabilize the couple or family, contributing to the high levels of divorce among those recovering from SUDs. In short, few couples are able to sustain their partnerships through active addiction, and the transition to recovery. While these couples are in the minority, their successful experiences can provide valuable insight into the recovery process. The present study examines the successful transition from active addiction to long-term recovery for one such couple. In particular, the study investigates the shifting narratives related to family roles, couple-hood, communication, alcohol, alcoholism, and recovery. The data is presented in the form of an ethnodramatic script. Ethnodrama is used to engage audiences both on emotional as well as informational levels. While ethnodrama may not provide specific answers, it is intended to provoke awareness, insight, and discussion by allowing audiences to vicariously experience the represented lives of the participants. Following the ethnodrama, an analysis of the script is presented, incorporating narrative theoretical frameworks so that the ways in which narratives function to facilitate (or frustrate) change within the individuals as well as the dynamics of the couple relationship can be expanded. The result of this analysis is the production of a Narrative Change Model, which can be useful in understanding the ways that narratives operate within the transition from active addiction to long-term sobriety and may have broader implications in explaining the narrative mechanisms behind other, more subtle change processes.

This thesis sets out a case for a mode of reading I term first-person participation in relation to Dante’s 'Commedia', a narrative poem I propose to function as an exceptionally participatory text. That Dante’s poem invites active engagement on the part of its readers is widely accepted in scholarship. My objective is to extend this debate by identifying certain of Dante’s innovations in relation to the mechanisms of narrative transmission through which such active engagement is invited. In so doing, I seek to establish that these mechanisms together constitute a narratological strategy of invitations to the reader to engage with the poem, intermittently and electively, in a mode of first-person participation, mentally simulating on her own account the journey to the desire for the divine. My research transfers and adapts for textual literary theory new notions of embodied simulation from cognitive neuroscience and emerging ideas in videogame critical theory relating to the mechanics of player presence and the function of the avatar, suggesting and evidencing parallels with the deeply personal and embodied modes of interaction with devotional texts associated with medieval practices of affective piety. I identify in the 'Commedia' a comprehensive and systematic programme of invitations to participate facilitating three types of presence in the responsive reader, and underpinning the invitation to first-person participation. Spatial presence (the perceptual illusion of ‘being there’) is invited through a multi-layered strategy I describe as narration through situated body states. Social presence (the illusion of being physically in relation with others) is invited by narration through kinaesthetic empathy. Self-presence (the experience that ‘something is happening to me’) is constituted, I suggest, through a combination of five mechanisms: a model of narrating instances that identifies the existence of four “faces” of the Dantean ‘io’; a strategy I borrow from film theory of narration through mobile camera view; a new reading of the functioning of the direct addresses to the reader; a strategy of narrative training; and a comprehensive strategy of narration through the manifold gaps in the text.

对于《创世记》6 章至9 章的洪水叙述解读和研究，先前学者们长久以来的讨论的焦点主要集中在三处：一是洪水叙述中交织的两个不同的文本问题；二是洪水发生的原因；第三，则是在洪水之前，6 章1 至4 节中关于“神的儿子们与“人的女儿们通婚的经文以及洪水过后9 章20 至27 中挪亚醉酒的意义。这三个讨论点往往被区分对待，而本文则试图将这三点结合起来，由《创世记》6章至9 章写作的历史处境为切入点，尝试以整体的角度全面探究《创世记》洪水叙述中的文本疑点。 / 为了解答上述疑点，本文为研究《创世记》洪水叙述引入了一个新的文本，即汉籍经典《淮南子》。由于写作历史背景比《创世记》更为清晰，《淮南子》很好的展现出在新的朝代建立、急需统一的并有别于以往的政治哲学体系时，不同学派如何借助前朝流传的洪水叙述进行改写与重述、求同存异，表达各自关于混乱与新秩序的观点。尽管多数学者试图将洪水叙述中的雅威典放入一个较早的、被掳前的年代，而本文则将雅威典放入与祭司典相同的被掳流亡时期，洪水叙述并非经由一个写作群体对另一个写作群体进行编修的产物，而是雅威作者和祭司作者在被掳流亡时期对于当时历史处境的共同回应。洪水叙述作为在古代近东广为流传的神话之一，“希伯来圣经对其最大的改动就在于洪水发生的原因以及洪水发生后的叙述。具体而言，雅威典中的洪水发生的前后，人类的状态都未发生过改变，改变的只是上帝的内心，借此表达出雅威作者对于上帝与以色列之间不确定关系的隐忧。而祭司典则将洪水置入“创造-灭-再创造的宏大框架内，先破后立，被掳事件被视为是以色列民族成长的重要环节，展现出祭司作者对回归的信心。 / 而在洪水过后，通过对挪亚醉酒的重新解读，可以将这段经文视为雅威作者将视角进一步缩小，把洪水英雄与以色列民族的先祖联系起来，为接下来的族长叙述做出铺垫。作为在洪水叙述中与雅威典始终平行的祭司典，在洪水过后的记载也并非如表面上般嘎然而止，在本研究的观点中，《创世记》6 章1 至4 节不应作为雅威典的洪水序言，相反，它更为恰当的位置是作为祭司作者在洪水叙述之后，描述人类重新在地上繁衍的经文，从而再次构成与雅威典的平行，二者共同对繁衍的关注也显示出被掳时期以色列群体对回归的共同盼望。 / 在动荡不安、漂泊不定的被掳时期，尽管雅威作者和祭司作者各自所代表异，借由为人民所耳熟能详的洪水叙述，通过描述这一代表着混乱、无序和灭的远古事件，做出各自对当下历史处境的回应。 / The previous studies on the flood narrative in Genesis 6 to 9 mainly focus on three points: The first is the interaction and relationship between the Yahwist and the Priestly Writer in this same text; the second deals with the reason of the deluge and the third concerns the meanings of the beginning and ending of the passage in Genesis 6:1-4 and Genesis 9:20-27 respectively. However, the importance of the historical background of the flood narrative in Genesis was largely neglected by scholars while answering these three questions separately. This thesis will concentrate on the exilic background and explore the three issues together by taking the flood narrative as a whole in Genesis. / In light of the Chinese Classic Huainanzi which has a much clearer historical background than Genesis, it shows how various groups rewrite the ancient flood myths in diverse versions and try to express their perspectives on chaos and order during a specific historical moment when a meaningful belief and relevant theology is urgently needed. Taking the textual perspective of Huainanzi in the reading of Genesis it is believed that the former will shed light on the more or less similar community dynamics and historical circumstances of Genesis 6-9. Although some scholars try to put the Yahwist in the pre-exilic period, this thesis will regard both J and P as texts of the exile, they are reflections on the same historical event. The flood narratives in the Hebrew Bible are distinguished from the Ancient Near East ones in terms of the reason for the origin of the flood and its narrative order. For J, the humanity has never changed before and after the flood while God changed God’s mind, such contrast shows how the Yahwist worried about the uncertain relationship between God and human beings during the flood and this also applies to and reflects the situation of the exile. On the other hand, P portrays and structures the flood in thecreation-chaos-recreation scheme, everything was under God’s control and the Priestly writer had a deep faith of God even in the face of the exile. / The ending passage of the drunkenness of Noah in Genesis 9:20-27 then can be read as an etiology narrative, explaning how humanity multiplies after the flood. The author also tries to relate the flood hero to the forefathers of Israel from the perspective of the Yahwist. In this thesis it is further argued that instead of being the prologue of the Yahwist flood, the beginning section in Genesis 6:1-4 should be taken as another etiology narrative about human multiplication after the flood by the Priestly writer. The two parallel etiologies of J and P reveal the same concern for continuation and multiplication of the threathened community of Israel during the exile. In the crucial moment that Israel may lose their identity during the exile, retelling the ancient flood story which symbolizes social chaos and disordered reality, both J and P have their own reflections of the exile through narrating the flood story in Genesis. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / 趙若云. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 156-169) / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Zhao Ruoyun. / 论文摘要 --- p.i / Abstract --- p.iii / 致谢 --- p.v / 缩写词对照表 --- p.viii / Chapter 第一章 --- 导论 --- p.10 / Chapter 1.1 --- 研究目的 --- p.10 / Chapter 1.2 --- 研究路径 --- p.11 / Chapter 1.3 --- 研究意义 --- p.14 / Chapter 1.4 --- 研究步骤 --- p.14 / Chapter 第二章 --- 洪水叙述之历史处境 --- p.16 / Chapter 2.1 --- 《创世记》1 至11 章：神话或历史？ --- p.16 / Chapter 2.2 --- 古代近东神话概述 --- p.19 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- 《阿特拉哈西斯》（Atrahasis）中的洪水神话 --- p.19 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- 《吉尔伽美什史诗》（Gilgamesh Epic）中的洪水神话 --- p.21 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- 其他古代近东洪水神话 --- p.23 / Chapter 2.3 --- 《创世记》中的洪水叙述 --- p.25 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- 《创世记》6 章至9 章之叙事结构 --- p.25 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- 《创世记》洪水叙述中的雅威典与祭司典 --- p.28 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- 雅威典与祭司典的独特之处 --- p.32 / Chapter 2.4 --- 《创世记》洪水叙述之历史处境 --- p.36 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- 被掳流亡事件之讨论 --- p.36 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- 祭司典洪水叙述与被掳处境 --- p.41 / Chapter 2.4.3 --- 雅威典洪水叙述与被掳处境 --- p.45 / Chapter 2.5 --- 本章小结 --- p.46 / Chapter 第三章 --- 汉籍古典洪水神话与《创世记》洪水叙述 --- p.49 / Chapter 3.1 --- 引论 --- p.49 / Chapter 3.2 --- 神话人物与汉籍古代洪水神话 --- p.52 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- 女娲与洪水 --- p.52 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- 禹与洪水 --- p.54 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- 共工与洪水 --- p.58 / Chapter 3.3 --- 《淮南子》中的洪水神话 --- p.62 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- 《淮南子》中与女娲相关的洪水神话 --- p.64 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- 《淮南子》中与禹相关的洪水神话 --- p.67 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- 《淮南子》中与共工相关的洪水神话 --- p.72 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- 《淮南子》中洪水神话之小结 --- p.77 / Chapter 3.4 --- 汉籍古典神话与“希伯来圣经中的“水 --- p.81 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- 洪水作为宇宙秩序混乱的象征 --- p.81 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- 洪水作为叛乱的象征 --- p.84 / Chapter 3.4.3 --- 小结：将洪水叙述作为不同观点之表达 --- p.86 / Chapter 第四章 --- 在被掳处境中探讨《创世记》中洪水发生的原因 --- p.89 / Chapter 4.1 --- 研究回顾 --- p.89 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- 在“罪与罚的框架下解释洪水发生的原因 --- p.89 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- 在“创造-灭-再创造的框架下解释洪水发生的原因 --- p.92 / Chapter 4.2 --- 地上满了强暴 --- p.95 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- 强暴与“希伯来圣经 --- p.95 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- 强暴与流血 --- p.97 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- 强暴与土地及上帝 --- p.100 / Chapter 4.3 --- 洪水前的上帝，洪水后的上帝 --- p.103 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- 雅威典中洪水发生的原因 --- p.103 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- 《以赛亚书》与洪水叙述 --- p.106 / Chapter 4.4 --- 人的女儿们与神的儿子们 --- p.109 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- “神的儿子们作为该隐/赛特的后代 --- p.110 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- “神的儿子们作为统治者 --- p.112 / Chapter 4.4.3 --- “神的儿子们作为“非人的存在 --- p.115 / Chapter 4.4.4 --- 六章3 节的讨论 --- p.117 / Chapter 第五章 --- 《创世记》洪水过后 --- p.120 / Chapter 5.1 --- 挪亚醉酒 --- p.120 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- 关于挪亚 --- p.121 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- “看见父亲赤身及其严重后果 --- p.123 / Chapter 5.1.3 --- 关于含 --- p.126 / Chapter 5.1.4 --- 关于迦南 --- p.128 / Chapter 5.1.5 --- 挪亚醉酒之主题 --- p.130 / Chapter 5.2 --- 重置6 章1 至4 节在《创世记》洪水叙述中的位置 --- p.131 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- 《创世记》6 章1 至4 节之主题 --- p.131 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- 神人通婚（6：1-4）、挪亚醉酒（9：20-27）与被掳处境 --- p.133 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- 《创世记》6 章1 至4 节之叙述结构 --- p.136 / Chapter 5.2.4 --- 《创世记》6 章1 至4 节作为祭司典 --- p.138 / Chapter 5.2.5 --- 重置后重新解读《创世记》洪水叙述 --- p.140 / Chapter 5.3 --- 被掳时期洪水叙述所表达的不同主题 --- p.142 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- 《以西结书》与洪水叙述 --- p.142 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- 《创世记》雅威典、祭司典与先知书中的洪水叙述 --- p.146 / Chapter 第六章 --- 结语 --- p.149 / Chapter 6.1 --- 本文的结论与贡献 --- p.149 / Chapter 6.2 --- 值得进一步研究的问题 --- p.151 / 附录 --- p.153 / 人名译名对照表 --- p.153 / 附录 --- p.154 / 神名地名对照表 --- p.154 / 主要参考书目 --- p.156

The thesis explores narratives constructed by participants about an organization’s identities. I examine how identity-relevant statements were deployed as exercises in power, serving to legitimize and promote their authors. Framed within an interpretive paradigm, the research adopts reflexive approaches to consider participants’ understandings. I draw on organizational identity theory and empirical studies to explore the multiplicity and conflicting nature of identity in organizations. Literatures on organizational narratives, storytelling and power are also considered. The ethnography is set in a public sector organization in which I worked: the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (PADA). Its role was to deliver the Government’s reforms to private pension provision in the UK; the reforms came into force in October 2012. The narrative data constructing the research were collected through semi-structured interviews with 60 members of the organization, transcripts of organizational events and a diary I recorded for a year. These data are augmented by a series of vignettes that weave in accounts of my experiences while working for and researching PADA. The analysis of narrative data is constructed in three chapters, each of which explores identity-relevant narratives from different perspectives. The first analysis chapter examines narrative data through five concepts: reflexivity, voice, plurivocity, temporality and fictionality. The second analyses identity narratives in two organizational events and the third explores my understandings of the organization’s identities from an autoethnographic perspective. The discussion chapter provides three readings that interpret the data through different lenses: narrative and storytelling, organizational identity and autoethnographic erspectives. I then make concluding remarks, including ideas for future research and the contribution of my research to the study of organizational identity. The primary contribution of the ethnography is to scholarship at the intersection of identity and power in organizations and specifically how identity-relevant narratives are deployed as exercises in power by participants. There are also contributions to narrative research methods, including the value of researching identity ethnographically. Additionally, I suggest practical contributions to literature on understanding issues of culture and sense-making in public bodies and how employees from different sector backgrounds (public and private) interact within a public sector context to deliver government reforms.