ABSTRACT
Catherine Emihovich presents “Distancing passion: narratives in social science.” Emihovich links emotion and reason through narrative voice (including discussions of power relations and ownership), textual organization of narratives, and the politics of metaphor. She argues that how knowledge is framed determines its importance and that narratives can free social scientists from conventional rhetorical forms. She also discusses postmodern ethnography as potentially nihilistic and offers collaboration, consensus building, and the inclusion of multiple voices as ways out of existential dilemmas associated with postmodern social science.
