This article focuses on the micro-narratives of two individuals whose responses to AIDS were mediated by their sexual identity, AIDS activism and the political context of South Africa during a time of transition. Their experiences were also mediated by well-established metanarratives about AIDS and 'homosexuality' created in the USA and the UK which were transplanted and reinforced (with local ...

Latino immigrant families with children with disabilities experience multiple sources of oppression during their settlement process in the United States. Unfair social structures and dominant cultural values and norms and the way they influence the immigrants' personal life stories generate a cycle of oppression very difficult to break. This paper presents a case study of how a group of Latino ...

Story-telling is a fundamental and prevalent aspect of human social behavior. In the wild, stories are told conversationally in social settings, often as a dialogue and with accompanying gestures and other nonverbal behavior. This paper presents a new corpus, the STORY DIALOGUE WITH GESTURES (SDG) corpus, consisting of 50 personal narratives regenerated as dialogues, complete with annotations o...

Objectives: It has been suggested that mental illness threatens identity and sense of self when one’s personal story is displaced by dominant illness narratives focussing on deficit and dysfunction. One role of therapy, therefore, is to allow individuals to re-story their life in a more positive way which facilitates the reconstruction of a meaningful identity and sense of self. This research e...

Background: Flexible work schedules give nurses the freedom and control to manage demands of work and life, while allowing the organisation to meet their staffing needs. Aim: To explore nurses’ perceptions of their job satisfaction and its relationship to selfscheduling. Significant to Nursing Practice and Leadership: Nurses and nurse leaders have the potential to change the way scheduling of t...