This article examines the case of Koryo saram, ethnic Koreans living in Central Asian republic Kyrgyzstan, to reflect on how notions diasporas, community, and identity have changed since collapse Soviet Union. It contends that saram are best understood through lenses diasporic conditions rather than as bounded communities, such an approach allows for greater recognition heterogeneity within the...

This study employs a narrative approach to explore the relationship between gender and video gaming using a postmodern theoretical perspective. At issue here is the meaning ascribed to the construction and iterative performance of gender identity by self-identified female gamers. Using an alternative to the conventional multicase methodology (which inscribes stark demarcations around distinct c...

Introduction Space and Metaphor Space and Textual Structure Space and Ideational Realities Ideational Space as Discursive Ideational Space as Liminal Cyberspace, a Realignment Footnotes References About the Authors

From Descartes’ cogito to the postmodern fluidity, notion of identity has acquired newer dimensions. Identity remains an important rhetorical resource for non-heterosexual people. Butler’s gender as performative been fundamental in this discourse on queer people who debunk compulsory heterosexuality a given. An exploration spaces that non-heteronormative occupy is pertinent understanding lived ...

Identity exploration and formation is a core rumination for young people. This heightened in youth where flux transition are characteristic of this liminal state intensified further contexts identity disputed opposed, such as Northern Ireland. In post‐colonial setting, the indigenous Irish language community recently gained some statutory protections, but status place Irish‐speaking population ...

Our article conceptualizes the experiences of women entrepreneurs through exploring how they negotiate an entrepreneurial identity in liminal digital spaces. Providing empirically textured narrative portraits women’s experience transitioning from employment to a career, this counters ascendant rhetoric celebrating democratizing promise technologies. We present more critical analysis self-doubt ...

En marzo de 1974 se realizó en la Ciudad Buenos Aires el seminario “Perspectivas femeninas investigación social América Latina”. La iniciativa reunió a un conjunto heterogéneo investigadoras Ciencias Sociales provenientes los Estados Unidos y Latina con antecedentes estudio entonces denominada “problemática mujer” sus respectivos países. Este artículo propone analizar aquella experiencia, condi...