Susie Scott
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3589440 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Susie Scott |
| NOMBRES | Susie |
| APELLIDO | Scott |
| FIRMA | SCOTT S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6151-9269 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 416 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Non-identity accounts
This article explores narrative practices of reverse biographical identity work: how people compose and present accounts of non-identity formation. When asked to reflect upon a lost, unlived experience, participants drew upon shared discursive resources: in particular cultural scripts. They performed aligning actions to position their individual tale in relation to dominant, preferred versions of these wider social narratives, making moral status…
On Being Seen in Unseen Places
This article analyses the micro-social processes of interaction that can be found in the domain of 'everynight life'. Drawing on Goffman's dramaturgical perspective and the symbolic interactionist tradition, it explores the negotiated meanings of social behaviour in nocturnal spaces. These definitions emerge in relation to situational rules and expectations about appropriate conduct. Using Goffman's concept of 'action' and building on Becker's mo…
Nested Narratives
Studies of narrative identity have focused on positive formation: stories of 'becoming' who we are because of events that happened, people we met, and things that we said, did, or had. However, identities can also be negatively defined by things that we miss, lose, choose against, or events that never happened. Drawing on the sociology of nothing, this paper explores some ways in which biographical subjects may story their unlived lives and paths…
Heroes, Victims, and Resisters
This article explores vulnerable clients' techniques of identity talk, drawing on interviews with clients in Danish job centers. We combine the theoretical perspective of symbolic interactionism with the sociology of nothing to explore techniques of disidentification from the nonworker identity. The study demonstrates how the actors perform agentic vulnerability to resolve their identity dilemmas. We identify three techniques of identity talk: (1…
Saying something with nothing
The relational processes of dialogue in biographical storytelling extend beyond manifest tales. Untold stories of unlived experience are also composed with an audience in mind and performed as communicative acts. This paper considers how and why research participants in a Mass Observation Archive study declined to respond to a life-writing task. Drawing on the sociology of nothing, we argue that their patterns of non-response were motivated by su…
Out of the blue and into it
Autoethnography can be an appropriate method for researching complex emotional experiences. However, the highly self-reflexive processes involved in mining personal data are subject to a set of cultural feeling and display rules, which obscure and interfere with emotional engagement. To illustrate this, we present one author's account of using autoethnography to research traumatic bereavement. We critically revisit three myths about the method: o…
Dramaturgical Traditions
This chapter considers the ways in which social actors construct, display, and perform the scenes in which they appear. Together, they cooperate to define situations with an interpretative frame, drawing upon shared repertoires of tacit knowledge. Focusing on Goffman’s dramaturgy as a branch of symbolic interactionism, the chapter begins with the metaphor of the theatre as a representation of social life. Individuals perform situation-based roles…
Social nothingness
This article identifies and explores the realm of 'social nothingness': objects, people, events and places that do not empirically exist, yet are experienced as subjectively meaningful. Taking a phenomenological approach, I investigate how people perceive, imagine and reflect upon the meanings of unlived experience: whatever is significantly not present, never appeared or cannot happen to them. These 'negative symbolic social objects' include no-…
Interactional Justice
Lisa Flower (2020) Interactional Justice: The Role of Emotions in the Performance of Loyalty Routledge ISBN 978-0-367-64721-6 £36.99 (paperback)
Surprise
This article explores the social and relational aspects of surprise: a reaction to the sudden discovery of unexpected knowledge. Drawing on the micro-sociological perspectives of phenomenology, dramaturgy and symbolic interactionism, I present a five-stage trajectory of this social emotion, charting its emergence, feeling, meaning, responses and function. Surprise emerges from situated encounters when an unexpected incident causes a break in the …
The Unlived Life Is Worth Examining
This paper explores how people talk about the things that have not happened in their lives. I argue that we can perform reverse biographical identity work upon our unmade selves by exploring the meanings of unlived, non-experience. Challenging one's own rehearsed life story is an act of narrative self-transgression, involving negative responsibility assumption. Drawing on my symbolic interactionist theory of 'nothing,' I consider how negative soc…
Holes, gaps and emptiness
This chapter explores the experience of not having something or someone important, and the spaces that this leaves behind. Emptiness is a subjective awareness of being without: of missing something or someone that would have provided meaningful substance. This form of nothing is defined by its external matter: surroundings, containers, shells and residue that remain outside its boundaries. Identifying five different types of emptiness, we see how…
Lost opportunities
This chapter explores the theme of non-identity, through the temporal dimension of experience. Reversing the symbolic interactionist model of identity as a trajectory of positively ‘becoming’ a certain type of person, we consider the kinds of social relationships and encounters that might dissuade someone away from a potential role. This can occur through acts of commission involving conscious dis-identification: ‘becoming a non-’ by claiming nev…
Being through nothingness
This chapter introduces the concept of nothing, as understood from a sociological perspective. Nothing is a realm of life that includes all negative social phenomena: no-things, no-bodies, no-wheres, non-events and non-experiences. In other words, we can study the things that people do not do, have or become, and how this affects them. Interpretivist social theory helps us to make sense of this, and so the book draws on symbolic interactionism, d…
Invisibility and absence
This chapter considers some ways in which people disappear from social life, and the ghostly traces they leave behind. Through commissive acts performed by self or others, people may remove themselves, go missing, hide or refuse to be seen. We examine this through accounts of bereavement, conspicuous absence, boredom and social death. Meanwhile through acts of omission, figures may never materialise: participants tell stories about longed for rom…
Silence and quietness
This chapter examines the significance of quietness in social interaction, from commissive acts of silence as political resistance, through lying, secrecy and stigma, to muted and civilised displays of emotions in politeness rituals and the omissive reticence of shyness. Focusing on the co-productive and negotiated dimensions of silence, we see how this definition emerges through societal reactions. Thus as well as deliberately keeping quiet, peo…
Stillness, rest and inactivity
The final chapter examines ways of not performing movement, motion and mobility. By acts of commission, people may refuse to move, either at all or at a particularly fast pace. Doing nothing can be a symbolic marker of privilege and status, as we see through the historical example of upper class idleness. Stillness may be practised as a deliberate, political act of cultural resistance, as illustrated by adherents of the Slow Movement, those livin…
The Social Life of Nothing
Nothing really matters. All the things that we do not do, have or become in our lives can be important in shaping self-identity. From jobs turned down to great loves lost, secrets kept and truths untold, people missed and souls unborn, we understand ourselves through other, unlived lives that are imaginatively possible. This book explores the realm of negative social phenomena – no-things, no-bodies, non-events and no-where places – that lies beh…
Acts of omission and commission in the embodied learning of diasporic capoeira and swimming
This article compares ethnographic experiences of two settings characterised by embodied learning: the African-Brazilian dance/martial-art/game capoeira, and swimming for fitness and leisure, both as practiced in the UK. We consider the ways in which participants in these scenes stage-manage the display of their learning environments, focusing on the rituals and routines of instruction and practice. Applying Scott's (2018) sociology of nothing as…
Asexual' Isn't Who I Am
Some literature on asexuality has claimed that it is inherently radical and contains the potential for resistance. Unfortunately, this literature has tended to be unempirical, has imagined asexuality as a disembodied entity, and has marginalised the multiple identities held by asexual people. This article, inspired by Plummer's critical humanist approach, seeks to explore how individuals understand their asexuality to encourage forms of political…
A Sociology of Nothing
Nothing is a sociologically neglected terrain, comprising negatively defined phenomena, such as non-identification, non-participation and non-presence. Nevertheless, these symbolic social objects are created and managed through meaningful social interaction. Nothing is accomplished either by active commission (doing/being a non-something) or by passive omission (not-doing/not-being something). I explore these dichotomous forms through four dimens…
Key Sociological Thinkers
Freedom and foreclosure
This article considers the intersections between identity and intimate practices for asexual people. Drawing on findings from a project exploring asexual lives, we argue that asexual identification produced consequences for intimate lives in the form of either freedom or foreclosure. Eight perceptions of increased freedom or foreclosure in personal life are discussed. Using Symbolic Interactionist theory, we suggest that these attitudes reflected…
Note on recruitment as an ethical question
This short piece considers how participant recruitment can have ethical elements. With reference to a qualitative research project on asexuality we explore the challenges associated with recruiting from an emerging, and politically charged, identity group. In our attempt to broaden the representation of asexual stories we sought to recruit people who may not fully identify with the emerging term ‘asexual’ as a sexual orientation while also not eq…
Tales from the Drop Zone
This article critically revisits conventional understandings of ethnographic fieldwork roles, arguing that representations of the covert insider as heroic and adventurous are often idealistic and unrealistic. Drawing on one of the authors' experiences of being both a covert and overt researcher in an ethnographic study of skydiving, we identify some of the dramaturgical dilemmas that can unexpectedly affect relations with participants throughout …
A Sociology of Nothing
Nothing is a sociologically neglected terrain, comprising negatively defined phenomena, such as non-identification, non-participation and non-presence. Nevertheless, these symbolic social objects are created and managed through meaningful social interaction. Nothing is accomplished either by active commission (doing/being a non-something) or by passive omission (not-doing/not-being something). I explore these dichotomous forms through four dimens…
Repositioning the patient
The Social Life of Nothing
Nothing really matters. All the things that we do not do, have or become in our lives can be important in shaping self-identity. From jobs turned down to great loves lost, secrets kept and truths untold, people missed and souls unborn, we understand ourselves through other, unlived lives that are imaginatively possible. This book explores the realm of negative social phenomena – no-things, no-bodies, non-events and no-where places – that lies beh…
Revisiting the Total Institution
This article revisits the concept of the total institution (TI), critically assessing the extent to which it has changed from being repressively coercive to relatively voluntaristic. I propose two new concepts, the 'Reinventive Institution' (RI) and 'performative regulation', to take the debate forward. The model of the TI outlined in Goffman's Asylums has been (mis-)interpreted as rendering its inmates powerless, but they also demonstrated agenc…
Stories of Non-Becoming
In contrast to conventional models of positively 'becoming' an identity through social interaction, this article explores the inverse, negational process of 'non-becoming,' whereby actors start but do not continue along an identity career trajectory. Through cumulative attrition, interactions and encounters at key moments create an overall pattern of non-progression. Using asexuality as an example, we identify three main trajectory stages of non-…
How to Look Good (Nearly) Naked
This article explores the discursive construction, regulation and performance of the body in the context of the swimming pool. The near-naked state of the swimmer's body presents a potential threat to the interaction order, insofar as social encounters may be misconstrued as sexual, and so rituals are enacted to create a 'civilized' definition of the situation. The term 'performative regulation' is introduced to theorize this process, as a synerg…
Reclothing the Emperor
This article examines the unspoken rules, routines, and rituals of the swimming pool, using ideas from negotiated order theory, Foucault, Goffman's dramaturgical theory, and symbolic interactionism. It identifies three sets of social norms: respect for personal space, respect for individuals' disciplinary regimes, and the desexualization of encounters. I show how these rules are (normally) followed or (occasionally) breached through various ritua…
The reluctant researcher
Despite the attention qualitative researchers have given to the interaction context and social process of data collection, there has been scant recognition of the dramaturgical dilemmas this poses for the fieldworker. Respondents have been caricatured in an essentialist typology, ranging from the ideal to the reluctant, while the researcher has been assumed to take a relatively privileged position as director of the drama. Here we report on a stu…
Negotiating the Boundaries of Intimacy
This paper uses findings from research diaries to explore the use of practices of intimacy among asexual people. While much of the literature to date has focused on the supposedly transformative and political nature of uniquely asexual practices of intimacy, our findings suggest something different. Rather than seeking to transform the nature of intimate relationships, asexual people make pragmatic adjustments and engage in negotiations to achiev…
Social nothingness
This article identifies and explores the realm of 'social nothingness': objects, people, events and places that do not empirically exist, yet are experienced as subjectively meaningful. Taking a phenomenological approach, I investigate how people perceive, imagine and reflect upon the meanings of unlived experience: whatever is significantly not present, never appeared or cannot happen to them. These 'negative symbolic social objects' include no-…
The medicalisation of shyness
Shyness has become an 'unhealthy' state of mind for individuals living in contemporary Western societies. Insofar as its behavioural 'symptoms' imply a failure to achieve certain cultural values, such as assertiveness, self-expression and loquacious vocality, shyness is increasingly defined as a problem for which people can, and should, be treated. This paper first critically discusses the idea that we are witnessing a new 'cultural epidemic' of …
Researching shyness
The image of the 'ideal' research participant as reflexive and articulate is typically associated with loquacious vocality. By contrast, the shy person is apparently quiet and reticent, representing the complete anathema of this ideal. Nevertheless, it is possible to conduct qualitative research with self-defined shy people if we treat shyness as an emergent property of interaction rather than a fixed personality trait. Methodological innovation …
The Red, Shaking Fool
Shyness has previously been conceptualized as an object of psychological study, but a symbolic interactionist approach relocates the condition in its social context. Using data from in-depth interviews and an e-mail distribution list, this article considers the ways in which the shy role is defined and negotiated in everyday interaction. It examines the myriad dramaturgical strategies through which shy actors attempt to conceal their lack of pois…
Asexual' Isn't Who I Am
Some literature on asexuality has claimed that it is inherently radical and contains the potential for resistance. Unfortunately, this literature has tended to be unempirical, has imagined asexuality as a disembodied entity, and has marginalised the multiple identities held by asexual people. This article, inspired by Plummer's critical humanist approach, seeks to explore how individuals understand their asexuality to encourage forms of political…
The Unlived Life Is Worth Examining
This paper explores how people talk about the things that have not happened in their lives. I argue that we can perform reverse biographical identity work upon our unmade selves by exploring the meanings of unlived, non-experience. Challenging one's own rehearsed life story is an act of narrative self-transgression, involving negative responsibility assumption. Drawing on my symbolic interactionist theory of 'nothing,' I consider how negative soc…
The Shell, the Stranger and the Competent Other
In contemporary Western societies, shyness appears to be an increasingly common experience, and yet its sociological relevance has been overlooked. Within psychology, the condition has been seen as an individual pathology, and there has been little attempt to relate this to the wider cultural context. The argument of this article is that shyness can be interpreted as both a privately felt state of mind and a publicly recognized social role. I rev…
Goffman in the Gallery
In an effort to facilitate public engagement, contemporary art galleries and museums house interactive exhibits incorporating digital media. Despite removing traditional barriers of cultural capital, however, these exhibitions now presume a level of technological and performative competence, which can feel equally intimidating to visitors. Reporting on anUK-based ethnographic study and using dramaturgical theory, we show how interactive exhibitio…
Out of the blue and into it
Autoethnography can be an appropriate method for researching complex emotional experiences. However, the highly self-reflexive processes involved in mining personal data are subject to a set of cultural feeling and display rules, which obscure and interfere with emotional engagement. To illustrate this, we present one author's account of using autoethnography to research traumatic bereavement. We critically revisit three myths about the method: o…
Taking the fun out of it
This reflexive analysis of two sports ethnographers' studies of an aerobics class and a swimming pool explores the effects of doing fieldwork on a physical activity that one loves. While using our bodies as phenomenological sites of perception initially created an epistemological advantage, researching the familiarly beloved not only 'took the fun out of' the activity, but also more profoundly challenged our 'exercise identities'. Emulating poor …
Note on recruitment as an ethical question
This short piece considers how participant recruitment can have ethical elements. With reference to a qualitative research project on asexuality we explore the challenges associated with recruiting from an emerging, and politically charged, identity group. In our attempt to broaden the representation of asexual stories we sought to recruit people who may not fully identify with the emerging term ‘asexual’ as a sexual orientation while also not eq…
Heroes, Victims, and Resisters
This article explores vulnerable clients' techniques of identity talk, drawing on interviews with clients in Danish job centers. We combine the theoretical perspective of symbolic interactionism with the sociology of nothing to explore techniques of disidentification from the nonworker identity. The study demonstrates how the actors perform agentic vulnerability to resolve their identity dilemmas. We identify three techniques of identity talk: (1…
Acts of omission and commission in the embodied learning of diasporic capoeira and swimming
This article compares ethnographic experiences of two settings characterised by embodied learning: the African-Brazilian dance/martial-art/game capoeira, and swimming for fitness and leisure, both as practiced in the UK. We consider the ways in which participants in these scenes stage-manage the display of their learning environments, focusing on the rituals and routines of instruction and practice. Applying Scott's (2018) sociology of nothing as…
Freedom and foreclosure
This article considers the intersections between identity and intimate practices for asexual people. Drawing on findings from a project exploring asexual lives, we argue that asexual identification produced consequences for intimate lives in the form of either freedom or foreclosure. Eight perceptions of increased freedom or foreclosure in personal life are discussed. Using Symbolic Interactionist theory, we suggest that these attitudes reflected…
I just want to be me when I am exercising’
This study explores the social and dynamic aspects of the concept ‘exercise identity’. Previous research, mainly in psychology, has documented a link between exercise identity and exercise behaviour. However, the process of identity formation is not straightforward but rather something that can change with time, context and interaction with others. Subsequently, the present work is informed by a social constructivist approach that views exercise …
College hats or lecture trousers? Stage fright and performance anxiety in university teachers
This article examines the experience of ‘stage fright’ in teachers in higher education, drawing on the dramaturgical perspective from sociology. Interviews were conducted with 10 ‘novice’ and ‘expert’ lecturers, alongside focus groups with undergraduate students, to compare their perceptions and expectations. The students defined a good lecturer as one who communicated well and was friendly and approachable; this was not related to nervousness. T…
Researching shyness
The image of the 'ideal' research participant as reflexive and articulate is typically associated with loquacious vocality. By contrast, the shy person is apparently quiet and reticent, representing the complete anathema of this ideal. Nevertheless, it is possible to conduct qualitative research with self-defined shy people if we treat shyness as an emergent property of interaction rather than a fixed personality trait. Methodological innovation …
The Shell, the Stranger and the Competent Other
In contemporary Western societies, shyness appears to be an increasingly common experience, and yet its sociological relevance has been overlooked. Within psychology, the condition has been seen as an individual pathology, and there has been little attempt to relate this to the wider cultural context. The argument of this article is that shyness can be interpreted as both a privately felt state of mind and a publicly recognized social role. I rev…
Repositioning the patient
The Red, Shaking Fool
Shyness has previously been conceptualized as an object of psychological study, but a symbolic interactionist approach relocates the condition in its social context. Using data from in-depth interviews and an e-mail distribution list, this article considers the ways in which the shy role is defined and negotiated in everyday interaction. It examines the myriad dramaturgical strategies through which shy actors attempt to conceal their lack of pois…
Three handbooks of qualitative research and data analysis
The Sociological Imagination of R. D. Laing
The work of psychiatrist R. D. Laing deserves recognition as a key contribution to sociological theory, in dialogue with the interactionist and interpretivist sociological traditions. Laing encourages us to identify meaningful social action in what would otherwise appear to be nonsocial phenomena. His interpretation of schizophrenia as a rational strategy of withdrawal reminds us of the threat that others can pose to the self and how social relat…
The medicalisation of shyness
Shyness has become an 'unhealthy' state of mind for individuals living in contemporary Western societies. Insofar as its behavioural 'symptoms' imply a failure to achieve certain cultural values, such as assertiveness, self-expression and loquacious vocality, shyness is increasingly defined as a problem for which people can, and should, be treated. This paper first critically discusses the idea that we are witnessing a new 'cultural epidemic' of …
College hats or lecture trousers? Stage fright and performance anxiety in university teachers
This article examines the experience of ‘stage fright’ in teachers in higher education, drawing on the dramaturgical perspective from sociology. Interviews were conducted with 10 ‘novice’ and ‘expert’ lecturers, alongside focus groups with undergraduate students, to compare their perceptions and expectations. The students defined a good lecturer as one who communicated well and was friendly and approachable; this was not related to nervousness. T…
Key Sociological Thinkers
From the Publisher: This second edition of a popular and successful text offers an easily understood introduction to the theorists who have made a key contribution to the discipline of sociology. Its carefully formulated structure places the writers' passions in their social and intellectual context, summarizes the central issues dealt with in their work and sketches out the intellectual legacy they have left behind them. With four new chapters o…
Reclothing the Emperor
This article examines the unspoken rules, routines, and rituals of the swimming pool, using ideas from negotiated order theory, Foucault, Goffman's dramaturgical theory, and symbolic interactionism. It identifies three sets of social norms: respect for personal space, respect for individuals' disciplinary regimes, and the desexualization of encounters. I show how these rules are (normally) followed or (occasionally) breached through various ritua…
What is Mental Disorder? An Essay in Philosophy, Science and Values – By D. Bolton
How to Look Good (Nearly) Naked
This article explores the discursive construction, regulation and performance of the body in the context of the swimming pool. The near-naked state of the swimmer's body presents a potential threat to the interaction order, insofar as social encounters may be misconstrued as sexual, and so rituals are enacted to create a 'civilized' definition of the situation. The term 'performative regulation' is introduced to theorize this process, as a synerg…
Revisiting the Total Institution
This article revisits the concept of the total institution (TI), critically assessing the extent to which it has changed from being repressively coercive to relatively voluntaristic. I propose two new concepts, the 'Reinventive Institution' (RI) and 'performative regulation', to take the debate forward. The model of the TI outlined in Goffman's Asylums has been (mis-)interpreted as rendering its inmates powerless, but they also demonstrated agenc…
Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities
Why do people enter total institutions – places that confine and control them around the clock – and how does the experience change them? This book updates Goffman's classic model by introducing the R
The slide to pragmatism
This paper reports on a qualitative study of UK mental health practitioners’ experiences of working with the contested condition, dangerous and severe personality disorder (DSPD). Our interviews focused on the issues of treatability, risk assessment and decision-making in multi-disciplinary teams. We discuss the approach of values-based medicine (VBM) as a useful framework for interpreting the data: respondents cited both explicit values (based o…
Making Sense of Everyday Life
This accessible, introductory text explains the importance of studying `everyday life' in the social sciences. Susie Scott examines such varied topics as leisure, eating and drinking, the idea of home, and time and schedules in order to show how societies are created and reproduced by the apparently mundane `micro' level practices of everyday life. Each chapter is organized around three main themes: `rituals and routines', `social order', and `ch…
Intimate Deception in Everyday Life
Purpose – To analyse the patterns of deception that take place at five different levels of intimacy: fleeting encounters between strangers, performance teams and their audiences, competitive game play between teammates, intimate partners, and individual selfhood.Approach – Symbolic interactionist and dramaturgical theories are applied alongside Simmel's dialectical model of social relations.Findings – Symbolic interactionist theories posit that d…
The reluctant researcher
Despite the attention qualitative researchers have given to the interaction context and social process of data collection, there has been scant recognition of the dramaturgical dilemmas this poses for the fieldworker. Respondents have been caricatured in an essentialist typology, ranging from the ideal to the reluctant, while the researcher has been assumed to take a relatively privileged position as director of the drama. Here we report on a stu…
Goffman in the Gallery
In an effort to facilitate public engagement, contemporary art galleries and museums house interactive exhibits incorporating digital media. Despite removing traditional barriers of cultural capital, however, these exhibitions now presume a level of technological and performative competence, which can feel equally intimidating to visitors. Reporting on anUK-based ethnographic study and using dramaturgical theory, we show how interactive exhibitio…
I just want to be me when I am exercising’
This study explores the social and dynamic aspects of the concept ‘exercise identity’. Previous research, mainly in psychology, has documented a link between exercise identity and exercise behaviour. However, the process of identity formation is not straightforward but rather something that can change with time, context and interaction with others. Subsequently, the present work is informed by a social constructivist approach that views exercise …
Rethinking asexuality
This article aims to contribute a Symbolic Interactionist approach to the study of asexuality. Previous research in psychology, sexology and sociology has had an individualized focus, which has downplayed the interactive and relational dimensions of asexual identities. In order to capture such elements we demonstrate the relevance of some key Symbolic Interactionist concepts: meaning, negotiation, social selfhood and trajectory. In doing so, we s…
Negotiating the Boundaries of Intimacy
This paper uses findings from research diaries to explore the use of practices of intimacy among asexual people. While much of the literature to date has focused on the supposedly transformative and political nature of uniquely asexual practices of intimacy, our findings suggest something different. Rather than seeking to transform the nature of intimate relationships, asexual people make pragmatic adjustments and engage in negotiations to achiev…
Taking the fun out of it
This reflexive analysis of two sports ethnographers' studies of an aerobics class and a swimming pool explores the effects of doing fieldwork on a physical activity that one loves. While using our bodies as phenomenological sites of perception initially created an epistemological advantage, researching the familiarly beloved not only 'took the fun out of' the activity, but also more profoundly challenged our 'exercise identities'. Emulating poor …
Stories of Non-Becoming
In contrast to conventional models of positively 'becoming' an identity through social interaction, this article explores the inverse, negational process of 'non-becoming,' whereby actors start but do not continue along an identity career trajectory. Through cumulative attrition, interactions and encounters at key moments create an overall pattern of non-progression. Using asexuality as an example, we identify three main trajectory stages of non-…
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