Narratives of identity and place /
Changes of residence are common in contemporary Western societies. Traditional connections to birthplaces, home towns and countries are broken as people relocate and migrate, yet where they live remains significant to people's identity and stories of who they are. This book investigates the con...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
London ; New York :
Routledge,
2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Changes of residence are common in contemporary Western societies. Traditional connections to birthplaces, home towns and countries are broken as people relocate and migrate, yet where they live remains significant to people's identity and stories of who they are. This book investigates the continuing importance of place for women's identities, employing a theoretical and empirical approach based on previous work in narrative and discursive psychology. Through an analysis of women's talk, the book examines how commonsense meanings shape and limit people's identity-work to establish a. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 146 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-142) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780203864678 0203864670 9780415480475 0415480477 1135193789 9781135193782 1282576224 9781282576223 9786612576225 6612576227 |