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Negotiating daughterhood and strangerhood: retrospective accounts of serial migration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Most considerations of daughtering and mothering take for granted that the subjectivities of mothers and daughters are negotiated in contexts of physical proximity throughout daughters’ childhoods.
Antze P   +32 more
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The role of computer mediated environment and simulations in mediating consumers' personal and domestic life-worlds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This thesis examines the impacts of consumption of simulations. Using ethnographic methods, it explores how Irish consumers are using simulated products in lieu of the real and tangible, and how consumption of these simulations impact on their lifeworlds.
Siddiqui, Shakeel
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Agency, identity and learning at turning points in women's lives: A comparative UK-Italian analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper discusses the ways in which women aged 50, in two different cultural contexts (United Kingdom and Italy) narrate and portray turning points in their life course.
Biasin, C., Evans, K.
core   +3 more sources

Jesus: His Life from the Perspectives of Mary Magdalene and the Apostle Peter (Pt.4)

open access: yes, 2019
The final two episodes of the History Channel’s “Jesus: His Life” focus on Jesus as viewed by Mary Magdalene and the Apostle Peter. As with the previous six episodes, this hybrid documentary focuses on the life of Jesus from the perspectives of ...
Anderson, Paul N.
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Agency, Narrative, and Mortality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Narrative views of agency and identity arise in opposition to reductionism in both domains. While reductionists understand both identity and agency in terms of their components, narrativists respond that life and action are both constituted by narratives,
Altshuler, Roman
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To Link Life Histories to Historical Narratives

open access: yesConserveries Mémorielles, 2022
Au Portugal la mémoire officielle de l’empire a jusqu’à très récemment occulté les passés violents plus récents de la dictature et de la décolonisation (guerre coloniale, rapatriement) moins fédérateurs pour l’identité collective.
Irène Dos Santos
doaj  

Well-being dialogue: Elderly women's subjective sense of well-being from their course of life perspective

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being, 2012
In this article, we are concerned with narratives of elderly women's well-being from their perspectives of the latter parts of their life, living at special housing accommodation (SHA) in the context of Swedish elderly care.
Ann-Marie Svensson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Identity and sense of self: the significance of personhood in rehabilitation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Recovery from conditions leading to illness/disability is often defined in terms of physical improvement; however, people themselves describe their own recovery as more than this alone: it is a returning to the life they led before their illness.
Ellis-Hill, Caroline
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The Limits of Anthropocene Narratives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The rapidly growing transdisciplinary enthusiasm about developing new kinds of Anthropocene stories is based on the shared assumption that the Anthropocene predicament is best made sense of by narrative means. Against this assumption, this article argues
Ankersmit FR   +20 more
core   +1 more source

Perfectionism and Life Narratives: A Qualitative Study

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2017
We examined how perfectionistic people conceptualize perfectionism and narrate life events using thematic analysis. Participants included 20 university students who qualified as highly perfectionistic based on cutoffs on the Almost Perfect Scale–Revised (
Julia R. Farmer   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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