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When Time Stands Still: The Destructive Experience of Ambiguous Loss among Mothers of Combat Soldiers

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev, Galit Itzhaki Draizin, Agamit Gelb   +2 more
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Reconciling Goffman and Disability Studies: “Interactional” and “Structural” Stigma in the Lives of Parents of Learning‐Disabled Adults

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Erving Goffman cuts a divisive figure in disability studies. Some criticize his conception of “stigma” as deviance‐focused and as ignoring structural forces that shape personal encounters. Others praise his recognition of stigma as an interactional phenomenon.
Gareth M. Thomas
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The Couch: Belonging, Memory, and the Making of the Self—A Heartfelt Autoethnography

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This heartfelt retrospective autoethnography explores a personal episode of adolescence through the lens of ritual, memory, and symbolic interaction. At the age of 14, after returning to Italy following years abroad, I found myself on the margins of a gang of boys whose shared language, stories, and music represented the codes of belonging I yearned to
Alessandro Porrovecchio
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Managing Robot Perception: How Families Present Their Faces to a Toy Robot

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Playing with a robot's face detection capabilities constitutes a praxeological approach to learning about new technology. We explore how family members discover suitable formations for a Cozmo robot to scan a single face, drawing on video recordings from Swedish homes. Taking an ethnomethodology and conversation‐analysis perspective, we demonstrate how
Hannah Pelikan, Mathias Broth, Leelo Keevallik   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Species Metaphors and Biopolitics in Contemporary Novels of Forced Migration

Interventions
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Conceptual metaphors in the naming convention of the United States Armed Forces

Progress, 2017
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Geometry and Force Dynamics in the Japanese Event Structure Metaphor

Geometry and Force Dynamics in the Japanese Event Structure Metaphor
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Metaphor and the Anthropocene: Presenting Humans as a Geological Force

Geographical Research, 2015
AbstractIntellectually as well as materially, the Anthropocene is a deeply cultural phenomenon. This includes its communicative form, which is a contested trope‐rich narrative, even within the sciences. In this essay I focus on the role of metaphor in Anthropocene thought and in particular, on the provocative, ambiguous, and potentially far‐reaching ...
Lauren Rickards
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Feminism and Metaphor: Friend, Foe, Force?

Metaphor and Symbol, 1994
For several years now, feminists from different academic disciplines have been considering the role of metaphor in feminist discourse. Some contend that because metaphor has often been used as a weapon to disparage women, metaphoric language is unsuitable for feminist use.
Sharon Janusz
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Emergent representations, interaction theory and the cognitive force of metaphor

New Ideas in Psychology, 2006
Abstract We focus here on the problem of how new representations emerge through a cognitive agent's interaction with the environment. We address this problem within a framework where representation-building mechanisms operate to create new representations against a backdrop of existing representations, and argue that novel and creative metaphors in ...
Bipin Indurkhya
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