- Tytuł:
- Exploring Other-Than-Human Identity: A Narrative Approach to Otherkin, Therianthropes, and Vampires
- Autorzy:
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Baldwin, Clive
Ripley, Lauren - Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/1024357.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2020-08-07
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
- Tematy:
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Otherkin
Therians
Vampires
Narrative
Identity
Spiritual Identity - Opis:
- Drawing on in-depth, narrative interviews with 24 self-identified Otherkin, Therianthropes, and Vampires, we explore how members of these communities navigate Bamberg’s three “dilemmatic spaces” or tensions of continuity/change, similarity/difference, and person-to-world/world-to-person fit. With regard to the first, we identify four aetiological narratives (walk-ins, reincarnation, trapped soul, and evolutionary soul), and discuss stories of shifts and awakening. For the second, we discuss how participants manage the similarity/difference tension with regard to themselves and humans, and explore categorical and renunciatory othering within the communities. Finally, we explore the ways in which members of the communities experience a barren narrative environment, and ways they seek to construct storyworlds and narrative resources as frames for establishing their identities.
- Źródło:
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Qualitative Sociology Review; 2020, 16, 3; 8-26
1733-8077 - Pojawia się w:
- Qualitative Sociology Review
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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