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Narratives of Identity and Place

Taylor, Stephanie·2009·Routledge eBooks
DOI 10.4324/9780203864678
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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 connection to place. It argues that talk about place, and especially place of residence, enables a complex positioning of self and others in which identities of gender, class and national identity intersect. It shows how a speaker’s multiple interpretations of where she lives remain central to her life narrative, and to her fragile and idealized definition of ‘home’ as the place in which she may position herself positively. Narratives of Identity and Place presents a unique and valuable integration of the popular methods of narrative and discourse analysis, compellingly demonstrating the value of these approaches for research on identity.

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Authors
Taylor, S.
Affiliations
The Open University (GB)
Corresponding author
Taylor, Stephanie
ORCID
Taylor, Stephanie
Venue
Routledge eBooks
Publisher
Routledge
Published
2009-10-16
DOI
10.4324/9780203864678
OpenAlex
W1539416520
Cited by
175
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0
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FWCI
7.58
Type
book
Language
en
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closed
Locations
  • Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
  • Open Research Online (The Open University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Place Attachment and Urban Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Representations and Identity
Keywords
place identity, female identity, residences, migration, home, life stories, gender identity, class identity, national identity, intersectionality, positioning, discursive psychology, narrative analysis

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