Shapeshifting Identities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20082708 |
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| Authors | Finola Farrant (0000-0002-2637-1489, University of Roehampton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 149-166 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Crime, Prisons and Viscous Culture (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/978-1-137-49010-0_8 |
| OpenAlex | W4232484588 |
| ISBN | 9781137490100 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
Between fantasy and reality, the surreal and real, liberty and confinement, in the liminal spaces in society that a person who has experienced incarceration inhabits, in these grey areas of uncertainty, tumultuousness and possibilities, in society’s shadows, we find the shapeshifters. This is their complex terrain. Whilst some will come out of the shadows, others will be tentative and shy, some will transform into a completely different being in order to achieve a livable life, and some would prefer not to be here at all. Shapeshifters, like those who have been imprisoned, move between worlds, identities, values and styles, constituting and confounding the limits of the known
Studies in social identity
The geopolitical aesthetic
On Stories
The culture of narcissism
The Saturated Self
The Sage Handbook of Identities
Undoing Gender
Outsiders
Social Crime Revisited
From Popular Culture to Everyday Life
Psychoanalysis and Psychosocial Studies
Desire in Language
Bodies That Matter
The Psychic Life of Power
Unconcealment
| Highly cited | No |
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