Pető, Andrea2024-03-052024-03-0520232000-2955http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/14270This paper is based on two arguments: First, “grim storytelling” only gives access to part of the story and therefore needs to be supplemented with “better stories” — stories that generate an understanding of human potentiality, creativity, resilience, interconnectedness and shared “vulnerability”. Second, the tendency towards “grim storytelling” in critical social sciences constitutes a major limitation for the possibilities of imagining and enacting the very transformations that Europe most urgently needs in order to enhance the European project.engJournal articlehttps://balticworlds.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/BW_2023_84-89_PETO%E2%95%A0%C3%AA.pdf