Ex-treme Identities and Transitions Out of Extraordinary Roles
This book focuses on the experience of leaving unusual or extreme situations: from military careers to religious communities, subcultures, criminal groups and political leadership. It explores how people become disillusioned with and disengaged from these social worlds, challenging their sense of se...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Reinventive Self: War Veterans’ Accounts of Trauma, Disillusionment and Reparation
- 3. Exiting an Offender Role: White-Collar Offenders’ Sense of Self and the Demonstration of Change
- 4. When Certainty Cracks: Early Identity-Change Work among Women Exiting High-Cost Religion
- 5. Women Leaving and Losing in Politics: Eulogy Work on a Public Stage
- 6. Identity in Reverse: Exploring ‘Broken Typifications’ and Calibrating ‘Depth’ in Interpretive Inquiry with Ex-Straightedgers
- 7. From Free to Exoneree: A Narrative Analysis of Ex-treme Identity Processes as Expressed through Autobiographical Accounts of Exonerees
- 8. Caring for and Containing the Hateful Other: Schools’ Strategies to Deal with Students with Neo-Nazi Convictions