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Who we can be. However, as Shorter went on to acknowledge, this increased resourcing is not equitably distributed.

Some people have greater ease of acces to some narratives than others within a political economy of developmental opportunities, that limits who or what people can become. As he comments we cannot just position ourselves as we please we face differential invitations and barriers to all the movements(actions and utterances) we might try to make(pp. 6-7) In his exploration of the telling of sexual stories, Plummer (1995) further emphasized the interactive, social role of stories and the manner in which they get told and read in different ways depending upon the context. He pointed out that the communities who can hear the story in certain ways and not others due to their own location in wider habitual or recurring networks of collective actifity. Accordingly, Plummer raised questions about the making af stories. For example : What strategies enable stories to be told, how are spaces created for them, and how are voice silenced? How do stories feed into wider networks of routine power? With regard to the consuming of stories he ask the following questions: Who has ac

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