Date of Award
5-17-2005
Document Type
Thesis
Abstract
Autobiographical narratives of shared experience are explored in a narrative qualitative approach regarding people who have come to Fairbanks, Alaska and decided to stay. Six co-researchers shared their lived experience regarding what influenced their staying in Alaska and resulting changes to their identity. This research is based on a Communication perspective, in particular, adopting Costructionism as epistemology for this study. Social Construction of Reality is the theoretical basis for a discussion of social construction of identity, social construction of community, and social construction of sense of place. This study focuses on the experience of changes in the co-researchers' identity through communicative interaction with other community members.
Recommended Citation
Sul, Eun Sook, "Community identity and sense of place in Fairbanks, Alaska" (2005). Communication . 24.
https://ualaska.researchcommons.org/uaf_grad_comm/24
Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/11122/5947