Narrative Agency, Pandemic Imagination and the Story of War
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In the third episode of CrisisTalk, Hanna Meretoja talks about military narrative imagination, or war rhetoric related to the current coronavirus pandemic. She examines the master narrative of war and how it diminishes our narrative agency: it impairs our awareness of the complexity and specificity of the pandemic and impoverishes our “sense of the possible.”
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