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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction: Advancing the dialogue on turning points
- one Unpacking biographical narratives: investigating stories of artistic careers in Northern Jutland, Denmark
- two Turning points in the life course: a narrative concept in professional bifurcations
- three Conjugal separation and immigration in the life course of immigrant single mothers in Québec
- four Migration biography and ethnic identity: on the discontinuity of biographical experience and how turning points affect the ethnicisation of biography
- five Biographical structuring through a critical life event: parental loss during childhood
- six Decisive turning points in life trajectories of violence among young men in the barrios of Caracas: the initiation and biographical reconversion to non-violent lifestyles
- seven The turning points of the single life course in Budapest, Hungary
- eight Complicating actions and complicated lives: raising questions about narrative theory through an exploration of lesbian lives
- nine Religious conversion as a biographical turn/ing: the case of Orthodox believers in contemporary Russia
- ten Conclusion: theorising turning points and decoding narratives
- Index
Notes on contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction: Advancing the dialogue on turning points
- one Unpacking biographical narratives: investigating stories of artistic careers in Northern Jutland, Denmark
- two Turning points in the life course: a narrative concept in professional bifurcations
- three Conjugal separation and immigration in the life course of immigrant single mothers in Québec
- four Migration biography and ethnic identity: on the discontinuity of biographical experience and how turning points affect the ethnicisation of biography
- five Biographical structuring through a critical life event: parental loss during childhood
- six Decisive turning points in life trajectories of violence among young men in the barrios of Caracas: the initiation and biographical reconversion to non-violent lifestyles
- seven The turning points of the single life course in Budapest, Hungary
- eight Complicating actions and complicated lives: raising questions about narrative theory through an exploration of lesbian lives
- nine Religious conversion as a biographical turn/ing: the case of Orthodox believers in contemporary Russia
- ten Conclusion: theorising turning points and decoding narratives
- Index
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- Biography and Turning Points in Europe and America , pp. iv - viPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2012