Scholarly interest in issues of self-identity has exploded across disciplines within the humanities and social sciences in recent years. Common to these concerns are the assumptions that self-identity is not an a priori, not given or fixed, but created in the process of communication. This also assu
Leisure Identities and Interactions
β Scribed by John R. Kelly
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Limited
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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