The shifting complex of identity: Issues of individual and contextual change informing the narrative identities of conflict youth: Commentary on hammack

Human Development

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 202-207

  Barber, Brian K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b Center for the Study of Youth and Political Violence   (United States)

Author keywords

Identity; Meaning; Narrative; Political conflict; Youth

Indexed keywords

CONFLICT; CULTURAL VALUE; ETHNICITY; HUMAN RIGHTS; IDENTITY; INDIVIDUALIZATION; JUVENILE; NARRATIVE; NOTE; PHILOSOPHY; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 77957689714     PISSN: 0018716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000320046     Document Type: Note

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