Abstract
This article traces the personal and cultural voices expressed in the life-story interview of a former politically violent militant regarding her engagement with and disengagement from the armed struggle. Rather than looking at the macro and meso aspects related to politically motivated violence, we examine micro-narratives which express individual arguments, sociocultural discourses, and negotiations within and between them, These are voiced in the dynamics that take place within the self-system at times of key identity transitions (e.g., from being a committed militant to becoming a former militant). In this vein, we highlight how the embodied emotional chords of personal positions, the development of meta-positions, and the positioning and repositioning movements within the dialogical self, facilitate the emergence of new and more adaptive meanings in the personal meaning system of former militants.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 248-262 |
| Journal | Journal of Constructivist Psychology |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2 Mar 2020 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Psychology
- Developmental and Educational Psychology
- Linguistics and Language
Access to Document
- Da_Silva_et_al_“I’m_not_the_same,_but_i’m_not_sorry”_Journal_of_Constructivist_Psychology_2020
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Constructivist Psychology on 02/03/2020, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/10720537.2019.1676340