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In this chapter, we stay with Sulina but bring together the lines of inquiry on narrative and on networks. More broadly, we investigate the limits but also forms of agency of networks, physical landscapes, and other agents of the Real in narrative construction and reconstruction. We discuss the links between past, present and future that are affected by these influences, relevant when considering issues of policy and planning. The links between remembering, envisioning futures, and ongoing coordination of collective decision-making are very visible in local cosmopolitanism, and they differ according to the relation between narratives and networks.
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Van Assche, K., Teampău, P. (2015). Narratives, Networks and Policies (Sulina and Beyond). In: Local Cosmopolitanism. SpringerBriefs in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19030-3_8
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