Liminality and the practices of identity reconstruction

Human Relations

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 285-302

  Beech, Nic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dialogue; identity construction; liminality; practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952217849     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726710371235     Document Type: Article

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