In this article, we use personal narrative to explore allies and alliance building between marginalized people working in and through higher education, with an eye toward interrogating the ways in which ideologies of neoliberalism work to maintain hierarchy through the legitimation of othering. Inspired by Conquergood (1985 ), who calls scholars to engage in intimate conversation rather than d...

The 1951 Refugee Convention recognizes two groups of refugees: one outside the country of his/her nationality and another group without nationality outside of the place of their habitual residence. However, because stateless displaced groups do not fall into the global nation-state paradigm, they are often overlooked within studies on refugees. As such, this thesis takes up the question of refu...

BACKGROUND With term GIST is now defined a group of mesenchimal tumours of the gastrointestinal tract expressing immunopositivity for kit protein kinase (CD117). Surgical therapy remains the gold standard for these rare tumours. Imatinib Mesylate (STI-571) is a potent inhibitor of Kit Kinase activity and different reports demonstrated its efficacy in unresectable or metastatic Gists. AIM OF T...

American Indians (AIs) have experienced traumatizing events but practice remarkable resilience to large-scale and long-term adversities. Qualitative, community-based participatory research served to collect urban AI elders' life narratives on historical trauma and resilience strategies. A consensus group of 15 elders helped finalize open-ended questions that guided 13 elders in telling their st...

The article analyses horror stories and legends about a sausage factories and about a woman who killed her children at her lover's insistence, told in a small Estonian town in the 1950s and 1960s. Presenting one’s self and memories is often a strategy for altering data. Certain events or stereotypic stories of fear, dishonouring or shame can be told as first-person narratives on the condition t...

Benzodiazepines are group of drugs used mainly as sedatives, hypnotics, muscle relaxants, and anti-epileptics. Tapering off benzodiazepines is, for some users, a painful, traumatic, and protracted process. In this article, I use an autoethnographic approach, adopting the metaphor of water, to examine heuristically my experience of iatrogenic illness and recovery. I draw on personal journals and...

The literature on prison effects is characterised by a focus on negative outcomes. There is a need to acknowledge individual differences. The theme of posttraumatic growth emerged in a subsample of interviews from a study on psychological adjustment in prison. The narratives of this subsample (six female, first-time prisoners) were used to explore the phenomenon of posttraumatic growth during i...

OBJECTIVE Impairments in laboratory tasks of metacognition appear to be associated with symptoms, functioning, and neurocognition in schizophrenia. We sought to replicate these results in a study of metacognition within personal narratives of self and illness. METHOD Narratives of 61 men with schizophrenia were rated using the Metacognition Assessment Scale and correlated with concurrent asse...

Turistler ziyaret ettikleri destinasyonlarda zihinlerinde canlandırdığı şeyi görmeyi istemekte, ziyaretlerinde bir anlam aramakta ve yer ile bağ kurmaktadır. Bu çalışma, turistlerin varoş destinasyonlarındaki deneyimlerine ilişkin algılarının doğasına ışık tutmayı amaçlamaktadır. Çalışmada nitel araştırma yaklaşımlarından doküman incelemesinden yararlanılmıştır. Çalışmanın amacıyla bağlantılı o...

Some evidence suggests that West Indian immigrants in Canada are a marginalized and over-burdened group. However, little attention has been given to examining health status and beliefs. We partly redress this gap by investigating health beliefs of West Indian immigrants in Montreal with somatic, emotional, or medically unexplained symptoms. The overall aim was to elicit and explore illness narr...