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Death-Related Grief and Disenfranchised Identity: A Communication Approach
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Abstract The death of a significant person in one’s life forces individuals to engage in a number of grief-related tasks, including reconstructing a narrative about the relationship, resituating their relationship with the deceased individual, and developing a new sense of self post-loss. The dominant narrat... mehr
The death of a significant person in one’s life forces individuals to engage in a number of grief-related tasks, including reconstructing a narrative about the relationship, resituating their relationship with the deceased individual, and developing a new sense of self post-loss. The dominant narrative of grief, however, generally assumes that the experience is a finite, linear process of detachment. Given past research challenging the reality of that experience, we draw upon Doka’s (2002) theory of disenfranchised grief to propose that grief is not only a possible temporary state of disenfranchisement, but rather a perpetual, ongoing state of being disenfranchised. This condition is primarily maintained by the need to constantly navigate the lines between the dominant narrative of grief upheld in a given culture and one’s personal experience and performance of it. We propose a narrative approach to the concept of grief as a potential solution to this problem, and outline several new potential avenues for research on grief.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Tod; Sterben; Trauer; Kommunikation; Identität; Narration
Klassifikation
Sonstiges zu Kommunikationswissenschaften
Sozialpsychologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Bereavement; Narratives
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2020
Seitenangabe
S. 78-95
Zeitschriftentitel
Review of Communication Research, 8 (2020)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12840/ISSN.2255-4165.024
ISSN
2255-4165
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)