کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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364469 | 621068 | 2013 | 15 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
This paper examines ways in which the ambivalence can be recognized as a point of potential transformation and an opportunity to gain voice and agency. Our ethnographic study is focused on a drama workshop with foster care teens in Finland. We analyze the ways in which the youth's expressions of ambivalence are socially recognized as a catalyst for an agentive transcendence of their inner turmoil, conflicting desires, loyalties and visions of possible futures.While ambivalence is usually seen as a paralyzing state preventing one from making decisions and continuing with life, we develop a positive concept of ambivalence as a juncture at which disparate conflicting discourses from different “worlds” in one's life penetrate each other, creating openings for personal transformation. We see ambivalence as a dialogic tension in coordinating relationships in contradictory, dilemmatic social situations and, as a state facilitating the appearance of a dialogic relationship to one's own self.
Journal: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2013, Pages 111–125