Justin B Hopkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 170651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin B Hopkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin B |
| FAMILY NAME | Hopkins |
| SIGNATURE | HOPKINS J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Franklin & Marshall College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Flying casual
In this autoethnography, I describe and analyse my serious leisure career playing X-Wing: The Miniatures Game. I focus on the beginning and the end of that career, as Stebbins (2020) has called for more research into those leisure career stages. More specifically, I identify leisure facilitators and constraints, demonstrating how my Star Wars fanship first facilitated my engagement with X-Wing, then how the variable factor of (un)available leisur…
Lured Home, and Back Again
For more than twenty years, fans have gathered annually in Castle Stahleck, Bacharach, Germany, to play Middle-earth: The Collectible Card Game, based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary mythology. I describe my experience attending this gathering and examine the game’s significance in my life, particularly in relation to my identity as a Third Culture Kid, a U.S. citizen having grown up in Senegal. The concept of home can be difficult and complex for T…
Play review
En Afrique, on n'oublie Jamais
Many Third Culture Kids (TCKs) struggle to answer the commonly-asked question: Where are you from? In this autoethnographic essay, a continuation of my earlier exploration of TCK experience (Hopkins, 2015), I confront my concept of home in reference to psychological research by Jerry Burger (2011), exploring the phenomenon of adults returning “home,” to place(s) that were important in their early lives. Like Burger’s subjects, I describe my exper…
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
"Coming "Home
Born in the United States, I grew up in Senegal, West Africa, where my parents worked as missionary linguists. "Coming 'Home'" tells the story of my return to the United States after graduating from high school. I frame my personal memories, shared in the form of poems (following the methodology outlined by David Hanauer's Poetry as Research), with reflexive analysis (using the theory of David Pollock and Ruth van Reken's Third Culture Kids). I e…
"Coming "Home
Born in the United States, I grew up in Senegal, West Africa, where my parents worked as missionary linguists. "Coming 'Home'" tells the story of my return to the United States after graduating from high school. I frame my personal memories, shared in the form of poems (following the methodology outlined by David Hanauer's Poetry as Research), with reflexive analysis (using the theory of David Pollock and Ruth van Reken's Third Culture Kids). I e…
En Afrique, on n'oublie Jamais
Many Third Culture Kids (TCKs) struggle to answer the commonly-asked question: Where are you from? In this autoethnographic essay, a continuation of my earlier exploration of TCK experience (Hopkins, 2015), I confront my concept of home in reference to psychological research by Jerry Burger (2011), exploring the phenomenon of adults returning “home,” to place(s) that were important in their early lives. Like Burger’s subjects, I describe my exper…
"Coming "Home
Born in the United States, I grew up in Senegal, West Africa, where my parents worked as missionary linguists. "Coming 'Home'" tells the story of my return to the United States after graduating from high school. I frame my personal memories, shared in the form of poems (following the methodology outlined by David Hanauer's Poetry as Research), with reflexive analysis (using the theory of David Pollock and Ruth van Reken's Third Culture Kids). I e…
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Play review
En Afrique, on n'oublie Jamais
Many Third Culture Kids (TCKs) struggle to answer the commonly-asked question: Where are you from? In this autoethnographic essay, a continuation of my earlier exploration of TCK experience (Hopkins, 2015), I confront my concept of home in reference to psychological research by Jerry Burger (2011), exploring the phenomenon of adults returning “home,” to place(s) that were important in their early lives. Like Burger’s subjects, I describe my exper…
Lured Home, and Back Again
For more than twenty years, fans have gathered annually in Castle Stahleck, Bacharach, Germany, to play Middle-earth: The Collectible Card Game, based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary mythology. I describe my experience attending this gathering and examine the game’s significance in my life, particularly in relation to my identity as a Third Culture Kid, a U.S. citizen having grown up in Senegal. The concept of home can be difficult and complex for T…
Flying casual
In this autoethnography, I describe and analyse my serious leisure career playing X-Wing: The Miniatures Game. I focus on the beginning and the end of that career, as Stebbins (2020) has called for more research into those leisure career stages. More specifically, I identify leisure facilitators and constraints, demonstrating how my Star Wars fanship first facilitated my engagement with X-Wing, then how the variable factor of (un)available leisur…
Art (4 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (2 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (1 work)