The Content of the Form

Five misunderstandings about case-study research

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Archaeological Narratives and Other Ways of Telling

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Social theory and trauma

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CHAPTER 8 Insects, War, Plastic Life

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Everyday agency and transformation: Place, body and story in the divided city

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Mimesis and Motivation: The Two Faces of Fictional Coherence

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The National Struggle Museums of a divided city

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Mythic History and National Memory: The Pearl Harbor Anniversary

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History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence: Time and Justice

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HISTORY ON TRIAL: HISTORICAL NARRATIVE PLURALISM WITHIN AND BEYOND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURTS

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Whither Materialism? Althusser/Darwin

Malabou, C. (2015) · Duke University Press eBooks · doi:10.1215/9780822375739-003 · Cited by 39 · see citing works

Will Sovereignty Ever Be Deconstructed?

Malabou, C. (2015) · Duke University Press eBooks · doi:10.1215/9780822375739-002 · Cited by 38 · see citing works

Through the Eyes of Another: Using a Narrative Lens to Navigate Complex Social-Ecological Systems and to Embrace Multiple Ways of Knowing

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Staging the Ethnographic of Dance History: Contemporary Dance and Its Play with Tradition

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Gender, narrative and affect: Top-down politics of commemoration in post-genocide Rwanda

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Between lived and the law: power, empire, and expansion in studies of North American religions

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Constructing the coronavirus crisis: narratives of time in British political discourse on COVID-19

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Israelite and Judahite History in Contemporary Theoretical Approaches

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Exhibiting the “Just-Lived Past”: Hizbullah's Nationalist Narratives in Transnational Political Context

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Beyond Visible Entanglements: Connected Histories of the International

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Writing in History

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Defining Occupations

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Stories in Action.

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Ecological Theories as Cultural Narratives

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Public History/Heritage: Translation, Transgression or More of the Same?1

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Speaking of hybrid warfare: Multiple narratives and differing expertise in the ‘hybrid warfare’ debate in Czechia

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Communities, Kings and Chronicles

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Finding the Field: Notes on Caribbean Cultural Criticism, Area Studies, and the Forms of Engagement

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The ‘West Bank of the Drina’: land allocation and ethnic engineering in Republika Srpska

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Uncolonizable: Freedom in the Muslim mind in colonial British India

Saikia, Y. (2016) · South Asian History and Culture · doi:10.1080/19472498.2016.1143670 · Cited by 20 · see citing works

Rhetoric in Policy Making

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Educational Research as a Reflexive Science of Constitution

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‘This is our Call of Duty ’: hegemony, history and resistant videogames in the Middle East

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Balance de la historia del tiempo presente. Creación y consolidación de un campo historiográfico

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The circus and modernity: A commitment to ‘the newer’ and ‘the newest’

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The Touring Machine (Flesh Thought Inside Out)

Moten, F. (2015) · Duke University Press eBooks · doi:10.1215/9780822375739-013 · Cited by 16 · see citing works

Physiotherapists as detectives: investigating clues and plots in the clinical encounter

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Psychologie – Psychology

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History and Hermeneutics

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Forgotten and Left Behind

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Challenges of Postconflict Coexistence: Narrating Truth and Justice in a Bosnian Town

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Los fragmentos de un traslado: los desbordes de las imágenes

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Constructing extraordinary experience from everyday life: Zibo barbecue check-in vlogs’ digital narratives

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HEROES IN THE SPORTS PAGES

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Collective memory and the populist cause: The Ulucanlar Prison Museum in Turkey

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Après la catastrophe : mémoire, transmission et vérité dans les témoignages de rescapés des camps de concentration et d’extermination nazis

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Memory as a means of governmentality

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Historiographic metafiction

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However Imperceptibly: From the Historical to the Sublime

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Rose-tinted lenses: how American functionalist strategy inhibits our appreciation of complex conflicts

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Heroic gay characters in popular film: Tragic determination, and the everyday

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Emplotting the Early Modern Mediterranean

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Plasticity, Capital, and the Dialectic

Toscano, A. (2015) · Duke University Press eBooks · doi:10.1215/9780822375739-006 · Cited by 6 · see citing works

Fictionnalité et référentialité

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Hayden White: a postsecular perspective

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Metaphoric History: Narrative and New Science in the Work of F. W. Maitland

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The Shaping of French National Identity

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Plasticity and the Cerebral Unconscious

Kellogg, C. (2015) · Duke University Press eBooks · doi:10.1215/9780822375739-007 · Cited by 5 · see citing works

Native American quest for a face: Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich’s discovery narrative

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Tarihsel Kaynaklar, Temsil ve Osmanlı Şehirleri: 937/1530 Tarihli Muhasebe-i Vilayet Defterleri’ni Dönemin Benzeri Kaynakları Arasında Konumlandırmak

Uğur, Y. (2020) · Divan Disiplinlerarası Çalışmalar Dergisi · doi:10.20519/divan.811953 · Cited by 4 · see citing works

Exploding history: Hayden White on disciplinization

Daddow, O. J. (2008) · Rethinking History · doi:10.1080/13642520701838785 · Cited by 4 · see citing works

INTRODUCTION.

Bhandar, B., & Goldberg‐Hiller, J. (2015) · Duke University Press eBooks · doi:10.1215/9780822375739-001 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Transforming history and myth: On the mutuality and separation of shared narratives in Eastern Tibet

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On pluralist mythscapes

Toth, M. (2021) · Memory Studies · doi:10.1177/1750698020988746 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Abridging the Antiquitee of Faery lond: New Paths Through Old Matter in The Faerie Queene

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Novel-Poetry

Allen, E., & Felluga, D. F. (2024) · doi:10.1093/9780198929239.001.0001 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Thinking through 1492: IR's Historiographic Operation(s) and the Politics of Benchmark Dates

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Gaza speaks through translation: The politics of language on Palestinian social media

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‘For the first time in ________ history…’: microcelebrity and/as historicity in reality TV competitions

Hargraves, H. (2018) · Celebrity Studies · doi:10.1080/19392397.2018.1508952 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Something Darkly This Way Comes

Grove, J. V. (2015) · Duke University Press eBooks · doi:10.1215/9780822375739-012 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Chronique et autobiographie dans les Mémoires du duc de Saint-Simon

Hersant, M. (2014) · Carnets · doi:10.4000/carnets.1278 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Trendy Monsters: The Nazis, the Perpetrator Turn, and Popular Culture

Khapaeva, D. (2021) · New German Critique · doi:10.1215/0094033x-9305512 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

‘The fading songs of Chimurenga’

Sibanyoni, M. R. (1995) · African Studies · doi:10.1080/00020189508707829 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

City of Mirrors:The Arcades Projectand urban history

Gunn, S. (2002) · Journal of Victorian Culture · doi:10.3366/jvc.2002.7.2.263 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Outlier and collapse: The enron corpus and foundation model training data

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“KISALIK BİLGELİĞİN RUHUDUR”: ORTAÇAĞ TARİH ANLATILARINDA KISALIK YÖNTEMİ

Durgun, F. (2018) · Turkish History Education Journal · doi:10.17497/tuhed.462325 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

On the brink of sovereignty: Maroon Chief Alonso de Illescas and vernacular agency in the colonial Atlantic

Sembe, K. (2022) · Atlantic Studies · doi:10.1080/14788810.2022.2040344 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

A people made of mud

Zabala, L. J., & Meza, E. (2025) · A comparative history of literatures in European languages · doi:10.1075/chlel.37.22zab · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Unwritable Pasts Unwritten: Poetics of the Past and the Shadows of the Presences

Çapan, Z. G. (2025) · Global Studies Quarterly · doi:10.1093/isagsq/ksaf078 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Archaeological Narratives and Other Ways of Telling

Pluciennik, M. (1999) · Current Anthropology · doi:10.1086/300085 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

The many realisms of John le Carré

Willmetts, S. (2022) · Intelligence & National Security · doi:10.1080/02684527.2022.2151755 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Communicating the past via translation: the manipulation of history

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Narrative Constructions of Conflict and Coexistence: The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina

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Naïve Empiricism and the Nature of Science in Narratives of Conflict Between Science and Religion

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Imitation, Style, Fiction: Ethics of Writing, Ethics of Reading in Chatterton, by Peter Ackroyd

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Social Theory and Cultural Trauma

Eyerman, R. (2019) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-13507-2_5 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Designing at the Cutting Edge of Battle: The 75thRanger Regiment’s Project Galahad

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Beyond Stasis: Intertextuality, Spreadability, and Fandom

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The anatomy of memory politics: a formalist analysis of Tate Britain’s ‘Artist and Empire’ and the struggle over Britain’s imperial past

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Fall of a tyrant, or heroic last stand? Tipu Sultan and the moral undercurrent in historiography

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Animadversions on Adversity, Ruminations on Resilience: A Quasi-Commentary on Bertram J. Cohler's Article, "The Life Story and the Study of Resilience and Response to Adversity"

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From the Overman to the Posthuman

Malabou, C. (2015) · Duke University Press eBooks · doi:10.1215/9780822375739-004 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

‘Distorting the history’: Padmaavat and the performative production of history in Indian popular culture

Shajahan, M. S. (2024) · National Identities · doi:10.1080/14608944.2024.2306162 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Stories of the changing same: the contribution of public scholarship to antiracism

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“At Augusta National, Not Talking About Race Is Tradition”: Race and Journalistic Repair Discourse at the Masters Tournament

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Narrating commitment, deferring compliance: symbolic temporality in global environmental governance

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Law, Sovereignty, and Recognition

Bhandar, B., & Goldberg‐Hiller, J. (2015) · Duke University Press eBooks · doi:10.1215/9780822375739-011 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Autoplasticity

Pottage, A. (2015) · Duke University Press eBooks · doi:10.1215/9780822375739-005 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Marvel tells / sells its own history: figureheads, promotion, curation, and application, 1982-1987

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Violence Framed: Remediating Images of Racialized Violence in Film

Mendes, A. C. (2022) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-05390-0_15 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

FORM AND CONTENT

(2025) · Harvard University Press eBooks · doi:10.2307/jj.27939772.11

6 THE FORM OF CONTENT

Guss, D. M. (1989) · University of California Press eBooks · doi:10.1525/9780520420526-008

1. Content and Form

Fessenbecker, P. (2020) · Edinburgh University Press eBooks · doi:10.1515/9781474460620-005

Form, content and conception

MacAuslan, J. (2016) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9781316493427.005

II. CONTENT AND FORM

Kurtz, D. L. (1943) · Columbia University Press eBooks · doi:10.7312/kurt94506-004