Becoming Zimbabwe or Becoming Zimbabwean: Identity, Nationalism and State-building

On becoming someone: Self-identity as Able

This paper illuminates the nature of and processes shaping self-identity formation as Able for People Who Stutter (PWS). It responds to the question: How have adults who stuttered over their life courses created understanding of themselves as Able? Seven participants between 19 and 65 years shared life course stories of living with stuttering. Data was generated through biographical narrative l...

Becoming Teachers, Becoming Researchers: a Case Study

This paper presents a case study of a group in initial primary teacher education students becoming researchers of their peers’ course experiences of school – university links. The connection between university teacher preparation programmes and work in school is a well-researched area with suggestions that there is a marked disconnect between the two. The project took an emergent approach to le...

Understanding youth transition as ‘Becoming’: Identity, time and futurity

Drawing on recent work in psychology, philosophy, and youth geographies, this article responds to calls for theoretical rigour in children’s geographies by developing the concept of becoming for youth transitions research. Becoming has been used by psychologist Gordon Allport (1955) in his work on the proces-sual nature of personal identity, while Elizabeth Grosz (1999) has used the concept of ...

Digital Innovation and the Becoming of an Organizational Identity

Today, companies often face rapid and substantial change of their business environment. To stay competitive, firms are forced to engage in continuous innovation of their products and services. Moreover, the digitization of society and organizations has led to an increase in radical and disruptive innovations across all industries and trades. As a result, companies often find it difficult to dev...

Becoming Immortal Becoming Immortal Combining Cloning and Stem-Cell Therapy