Shaping lives: negotiating and narrating memories
Life stories and experiences are shaped within a broad range of uses of heavily institutionalized identity politics, mediated narratives and situational bodily experiences. Acting upon individual desires is a necessity for formation of collective identities and identification, communicatively constructing society. Examples from a variety of contexts will be used to argue that meaning is created through exchange between spheres of different logics: existential, political, market and institutional logics might openly oppose and contradict each other and crave for autonomy. When successful in establishing a powerful historical culture they do nevertheless more often reinforce each other when life experiences and new utopias are being shaped through narrating and negotiating memories to deal with contemporary challenges.
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | English |
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Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia - CRIA
2015
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| Online Access: | http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0873-65612015000300009 |
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