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  • Narrative psychology highlights how culture shapes identities, but less focus has been on how individuals resist cultural narratives.
  • This study explores the personal stories of former residents of Yamit, revealing three strategies of narrative resistance against the dominant episodic narrative in Israeli society: explicit debate, implicit debate, and neutralization.
  • The findings show that resistance often intertwines with the appropriation of foundational Zionist narratives, suggesting that narrative resistance is complex and involves both compliance and resistance to cultural master narratives.

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Narrative psychology emphasizes the role of culture in shaping identities. Less attention has been paid to how individuals resist culture. Specifically, two aspects have remained understudied: the diverse forms of doing narrative resistance and the navigation between different types of master narratives involved in the process. The present study aimed to fill these gaps by examining the personal stories of former residents of Yamit, an Israeli region in the Sinai Peninsula that was evacuated following the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt. Holistic narrative analysis of the personal stories revealed three strategies of resisting the episodic master narrative of Yamit established in Israeli society - explicit debate, implicit debate, and neutralization - which differ in the relative weight of my/our story and the story about us. To remain within the Israeli consensus, resistance to the episodic master narrative was intertwined with appropriation of the Zionist foundational master narrative. The study demonstrates that narrative resistance can take diverse forms and simultaneously involve compliance with and resistance to different types of master narratives. Investigating these two findings offers a nuanced understanding of counter-narratives as multifaceted, illuminating the complex relationships between personal stories and culture.

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