Stories of North Omaha: Conveying Identities, Values, and Actions through Storytelling in a Public Meeting

Stories of North Omaha: Conveying Identities, Values, and Actions through Storytelling in a Public Meeting

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This study uses discourse analysis from a Language and Social Interaction (LSI) 1861 remington revolver replica perspective to analyze the personal stories that were told during the North Omaha Development Project (NODP) public meeting.Personal stories may not intuitively seem to be important in public meetings because they center on individual, personal experience, rather than discussing issues in public terms.However, stories help people to create and negotiate their identities, demonstrate their values, and indicate what actions ought to be taken to enact those values in meaningful ways.In the NODP public meeting, presenters and audience members told stories that demonstrated the important distinction between community members and outsiders, welspun spaces double bedsheet and offered competing notions of the community values and appropriate actions that should be taken to address neighborhood poverty.This analysis offers insights into how public participation scholars can view stories told in public meetings as well as practical implications for officials convening public meetings.