Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds

Title Page......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
I / On the Shoulders of Bakhtin and Vygotsky......Page 13
1 / The Woman Who Climbed up the House......Page 15
2 / A Practice Theory of Self and Identity......Page 31
II / Placing Identity and Agency......Page 59
3 / Figured Worlds......Page 61
4 / Personal Stories in Alcoholics Anonymous......Page 78
5 / How Figured Worlds of Romance Become Desire......Page 110
III / Power and Privilege......Page 135
6 / Positional Identities......Page 137
7 / The Sexual Auction Block......Page 156
IV / The Space of Authoring......Page 179
8 / Authoring Selves......Page 181
9 / Mental Disorder,Identity, and Professional Discourse......Page 204
10 / Authoring Oneself as a Woman in Nepal......Page 226
V / Making Worlds......Page 245
11 / Play Worlds,Liberatory Worlds, and Fantasy Resources......Page 247
12 / Making Alternative Worlds in Nepal......Page 265
13 / Identity in Practice......Page 282
Notes......Page 301
References......Page 329
Credits......Page 351
Index......Page 353