The present autoethnography uses stories, pauses for reflection, and social scientific theory to explore two-plus years of identity deconstruction, as well passive active reconstruction, following a diagnosis acute myeloid leukemia eventual stem cell transplant. I cast these parallel processes in terms centripetal force, result loss volition expressed through victim/patient syndrome, monitoring...

This study examines how Otherness is constructed visually in newspaper photographs of the refugee crisis. visual rhetoric analysis form, content, and function images explores rhetorical strategies deployed visualizations crisis a mainstream Finnish national from 2015 to 2016. The data consisted 1,473 images. identified six used for dehumanizing refugees: massifying, separating, passivating, dem...