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‎Sources, acknowledgements and inspiration

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 By exploring how the skills and knowledges of people enduring hardships can make contributions to the lives of others, the person is no longer the problem, the problem is the problem, and the solution becomes not only personal.<br/>
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-From my perspective, the curiosities of narrative practice seek to generate what Michel Foucault described as, ‘an insurrection of local knowledges’ ([[References#LETTRE-F|Foucault, 1980, p. 81). These forms of curiosity sponsor diversity not conformity and revel in the sacraments of everyday non-conformities.<br/>
+From my perspective, the curiosities of narrative practice seek to generate what Michel Foucault described as, ‘an insurrection of local knowledges’ ([[References#LETTRE-F|Foucault, 1980, p. 81]]). These forms of curiosity sponsor diversity not conformity and revel in the sacraments of everyday non-conformities.<br/>
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 By exploring how the skills and knowledges of people enduring hardships can make contributions to the lives of others, the person is no longer the problem, the problem is the problem, and the solution becomes not only personal.<br/>
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-From my perspective, the curiosities of narrative practice seek to generate what Michel Foucault described as, ‘an insurrection of local knowledges’ (1980, p. 81). These forms of curiosity sponsor diversity not conformity and revel in the sacraments of everyday non-conformities.<br/>
+From my perspective, the curiosities of narrative practice seek to generate what Michel Foucault described as, ‘an insurrection of local knowledges’ ([[References#LETTRE-F|Foucault, 1980, p. 81). These forms of curiosity sponsor diversity not conformity and revel in the sacraments of everyday non-conformities.<br/>
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 ==Innovation==
 Crucially, rather than being satisfied with critiquing existing pathologising practice, narrative practitioners innovate alternative practices – practices which look different depending on their locations. I am particularly interested in the politics implicit in two sorts of narrative practice innovations.<br/>

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 Crucially, rather than being satisfied with critiquing existing pathologising practice, narrative practitioners innovate alternative practices – practices which look different depending on their locations. I am particularly interested in the politics implicit in two sorts of narrative practice innovations.<br/>
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-''Partnerships'': Inspired by the work of the Just Therapy Team (Waldegrave, Tamasese, Tuhaka & Campbell, 2003), narrative practitioners prioritise the development of innovative partnerships and accountabilities. These partnerships involve recognising and naming privileges and the politics of gender, race, class, age, ethnicity, heterosexism, etc. and create possibilities for collaboratively using privileges and knowledges generated in resistance to marginalisation for social good.<br/>
+''Partnerships'': Inspired by the work of the Just Therapy Team ([[References#LETTRE-W|Waldegrave, Tamasese, Tuhaka & Campbell, 2003]]), narrative practitioners prioritise the development of innovative partnerships and accountabilities. These partnerships involve recognising and naming privileges and the politics of gender, race, class, age, ethnicity, heterosexism, etc. and create possibilities for collaboratively using privileges and knowledges generated in resistance to marginalisation for social good.<br/>
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-''Developing practices most relevant to the most marginalised'': Narrative practice began in collaboration with two groups of people whose knowledges are profoundly marginalised within dominant Western culture – young children with emotional/ psychological difficulties and adults who had received serious psychiatric diagnoses (see White, 2016). From its origins to today there remains a commitment to innovate forms of practice that are most relevant to the most marginalised.<br/>
+''Developing practices most relevant to the most marginalised'': Narrative practice began in collaboration with two groups of people whose knowledges are profoundly marginalised within dominant Western culture – young children with emotional/ psychological difficulties and adults who had received serious psychiatric diagnoses (see [[References#LETTRE-W|White, 2016]]). From its origins to today there remains a commitment to innovate forms of practice that are most relevant to the most marginalised.<br/>
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 Of course, dear reader, you may have ideas about further refusals, curiosities and innovations that ought to be included in this list. Or you may propose an entirely different framework!<br/>
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 ==Sources, acknowledgements and inspiration==
 I have drawn upon diverse sources for the entries within this dictionary. Some of the most helpful have included:
-* Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler’s (1985) ''A feminist dictionary''
+* [[References#LETTRE-K|Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler’s (1985)]] ''A feminist dictionary''
 * ''The Michael White Archive'', Dulwich Centre: Kelsi (Sassy) Semeschuk’s work as an archivist/researcher was influential in finding quotes from Michael’s teaching tapes.
-* Alex Kapitan’s (2017) ''The radical copyeditor’s style guide for writing about transgender people''
+* [[References#LETTRE-K|Alex Kapitan’s (2017)]] ''The radical copyeditor’s style guide for writing about transgender people''
-* Meg-John Barker’s (2018) ''Good Practice across the Counselling Professions 001 Gender, Sexual, and Relationship Diversity''
+* [[References#LETTRE-B|Meg-John Barker’s (2018)]] ''Good Practice across the Counselling Professions 001 Gender, Sexual, and Relationship Diversity''
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 Claire Nettle contributed the following entries: insider knowledge; homophobia; narrative justice; normalisation; patriarchal power; post colonialism; and productive power.<br/>

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 I hope this in some way takes up an invitation that Ron Findlay made in ''A memory book for the field of narrative practice'':
   When we are engaging with narrative practices now, I think we shouldn’t forget that our therapy practices are also political practices. Like heads and tails, two sides of a coin. For instance, the narrative practice of using people’s own words instead of professional definitions can have a positive therapeutic effect, but it is also a political act ... of enabling people to represent themselves. If we forget the political history and political side of our practices, we risk losing some of the understanding of them, and we risk making invisible the real political effects of our practices. ([[References#LETTRE-W|Ron Findlay in White, 2016, p. 24]])
-Of course, as soon as some entries in this (or any other) dictionary are written, they already need updating! I am drawn to the words of genderqueer radical copyeditor Alex Kapitan (2017). In relation to the ways in which the language of gender identity and expression is ‘evolving at lightning speed’, Alex suggests we:
+Of course, as soon as some entries in this (or any other) dictionary are written, they already need updating! I am drawn to the words of genderqueer radical copyeditor [[References#LETTRE-K|Alex Kapitan (2017)]]. In relation to the ways in which the language of gender identity and expression is ‘evolving at lightning speed’, Alex suggests we:
-  Choose to celebrate this rapid evolution of language because of what it means: that people who have been marginalized for centuries are finding ways of reclaiming agency and legitimacy; that those of us who have been written out of existence are finding ways to rewrite reality ... The purpose of language is to communicate, not to regulate. (Kapitan, 2017)
+  Choose to celebrate this rapid evolution of language because of what it means: that people who have been marginalized for centuries are finding ways of reclaiming agency and legitimacy; that those of us who have been written out of existence are finding ways to rewrite reality ... The purpose of language is to communicate, not to regulate. ([[References#LETTRE-K|Kapitan, 2017]])
 The purpose of this incomplete, biased dictionary is also to communicate, not to regulate. If there are entries in these pages that you find helpful, I’d be really interested to hear from you. And if there are omissions, errors, and/or complexities that you notice, I’d love to receive your feedback as well as any additional entries that you and/ or your communities might suggest.<br/>
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 ==How is narrative practice political?==
 If narrative practice is to be understood as ‘political’, then how is this politics characterised? And what does this form of politics make possible? The process of compiling this political dictionary has invited, cajoled and finally demanded of me that I clarify my own views about this. In doing so, I have found helpful the following quote from Michel Foucault:
-  I was telling you earlier about the three elements in my morals. They are (1) the refusal to accept as self-evident the things that are proposed to us; (2) the need to analyse and to know, since we can accomplish nothing without reflection and understanding—thus, the principle of curiosity; and (3) the principle of innovation: to seek out in our reflection those things that have never been thought or imagined. Thus: refusal, curiosity, innovation. (Foucault, 1988a)
+  I was telling you earlier about the three elements in my morals. They are (1) the refusal to accept as self-evident the things that are proposed to us; (2) the need to analyse and to know, since we can accomplish nothing without reflection and understanding—thus, the principle of curiosity; and (3) the principle of innovation: to seek out in our reflection those things that have never been thought or imagined. Thus: refusal, curiosity, innovation. ([[References#LETTRE-F|Foucault, 1988a]])
 Perhaps the politics of narrative practice can be considered through these three principles.<br/>
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 If you are also drawn to the politics of narrative practice, I hope the diverse entries and stories that you will find within these pages are of interest to you. This political dictionary has been inspired by ''A feminist dictionary'' compiled by Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler back in 1985. ''A feminist dictionary'' is unlike any other I have turned to. To read it brought challenge, new knowledge, and at times, laughter.<br/>
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-Kramarae and Treichler explicitly acknowledge ‘the socio-political aspects of dictionary-making’ and at times within one entry offer contradictions without resolving them (pp. 161–162). What’s more, they describe how their dictionary was created ‘not to authorize but to challenge and envision ... (and to) ... elucidate and complicate the terms of feminist discourse’ (pp. 12–14).<br/>
+Kramarae and Treichler explicitly acknowledge ‘the socio-political aspects of dictionary-making’ and at times within one entry offer contradictions without resolving them ([[References#LETTRE-K|Kramarae and Treichler, pp. 161–162]]). What’s more, they describe how their dictionary was created ‘not to authorize but to challenge and envision ... (and to) ... elucidate and complicate the terms of feminist discourse’ ([[References#LETTRE-K|Kramarae and Treichler, pp. 12–14]]).<br/>
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 Following their example, this dictionary doesn’t seek to authorize a particular version of narrative practice but instead hopes to elucidate and complicate the terms of narrative practice. If you are looking for clear and concise definitions, all written in the same style and voice, I’m sorry but you will not find them here. What you will find are definitions, descriptions, examples, and quotes from multiple authors and perspectives.<br/>

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 To David Epston, who not only co-founded narrative therapy, but whose creativity and generosity also provided the precursors for collective narrative practice.<br/>
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-And to Cheryl White whose joyful, intelligent politics has made possible this project and so many others.
+And to Cheryl White whose joyful, intelligent politics has made possible this project and so many others.<br/>