Introduction and overview
who, what, why
pp. 3-9
in: Richard Walsh, Susan Stepney (eds), Narrating complexity, Berlin, Springer, 2018Abstract
The introduction provides an account of the genesis of this volume. In particular, we sketch its prehistory in the dialogue cultivated by the NarCS network between complex systems scientists and narratologists, and introduce the fundamental questions animating that dialogue. It supplies the conceptual framework within which the network pursued those questions, and explains the interdisciplinary methodological assumptions we adopted from the outset, and which also inform this volume.