Reflexive dis/embedding: Personal narratives, empowerment and the emotional dynamics of interstitial events
通过分析一个旨在培养‘变革者’的间隙性事件，揭示了个人叙事和赋权如何通过情感动力使参与者脱离原有社会关系并嵌入新纽带，从而改变其世界观。
Reflexivity is required for institutional work, yet we know very little about the mechanisms for generating such understandings of the social world. We explore this gap through a case study of an interstitial event that aims to create a community of ‘change-makers’. The findings suggest that such events can generate reflexive dis/embedding through two complementary mechanisms. Specifically, personal narratives of injustice and action and individual-collective empowering generate emotional dynamics that disembed actors from their given attachments and embed them within new social bonds. Through these mechanisms, the event in the case study was able to challenge audience members’ conceptions of self and others and change their worldview. This research advances our understanding of how reflexivity can be developed by uncovering the emotional dynamics crucial to the dis/embedding of actors.