Description

• Title:
  Exploring Other-Than-Human Identity: A Narrative Approach to Otherkin, Therianthropes, and Vampires
• Creator:
  Baldwin, Clive;
  Ripley, Lauren
• Contributor:
  Baldwin, Clive - St. Thomas University, Canada;
  Ripley, Lauren - St. Thomas University, Canada;
  Baldwin, Clive - baldwin@stu.ca;
  Ripley, Lauren - hlhnd@stu.ca
• Description:
  Drawing on in-depth, narrative interviews with 24 self-identified Otherkin, Therianthropes, and Vampires, we explore how members of these communities navigate Bamberg’s three “dilemmatic spaces” or tensions of continuity/change, similarity/difference, and person-to-world/world-to-person fit. With regard to the first, we identify four aetiological narratives (walk-ins, reincarnation, trapped soul, and evolutionary soul), and discuss stories of shifts and awakening. For the second, we discuss how participants manage the similarity/difference tension with regard to themselves and humans, and explore categorical and renunciatory othering within the communities. Finally, we explore the ways in which members of the communities experience a barren narrative environment, and ways they seek to construct storyworlds and narrative resources as frames for establishing their identities.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2021.07.29;
  2020.08.07
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Qualitative Sociology Review;3;
  16
• Subject:
  Otherkin;
  Therians;
  Vampires;
  Narrative;
  Identity;
  Spiritual Identity
• Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11089/38377 ;
  1733-8077;
  10.18778/1733-8077.16.3.02
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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