caa a22 4500 445887117 CHVBK 20180317145603.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11133-011-9206-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11133-011-9206-0 Gibson David Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 3718 Locust Walk, 113 McNeil Building, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA aut Speaking of the Future: Contentious Narration During the Cuban Missile Crisis [Elektronische Daten] [David Gibson] People tell stories about not only the past, but also the future, particularly when contemplating difficult decisions. When such stories are constructed aloud, in conversation, the potential for disagreement is pervasive because no one can claim to have witnessed the future and thus no one can claim the sole right to narrate it. Consequently, storytelling procedures need to be broadened to accommodate a diversity of opinions about causes and consequences. This article argues that those procedures are based on an expanded notion of narrative relevance, and illustrates their operation in the deliberations of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council during the Cuban missile crisis. These storytelling procedures provided scaffolding for the deliberations about possible U.S. responses after the discovery of Soviet missiles; they delimited the "moving front” for skirmishes around possible scenarios and outcomes; and they were partly constitutive of the discursive grounds for Kennedy's decisions. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Stories nationallicence Decisions nationallicence Future nationallicence Crisis nationallicence Qualitative Sociology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 34/4(2011-12-01), 503-522 0162-0436 34:4<503 2011 34 11133 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-011-9206-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-011-9206-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Gibson David Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 3718 Locust Walk, 113 McNeil Building, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Qualitative Sociology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 34/4(2011-12-01), 503-522 0162-0436 34:4<503 2011 34 11133 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer