Up in smoke? The lingering influence of history on community identity dynamics
通过比较娱乐性大麻店在不同社区引发的身份反思差异，研究发现历史特征导致威胁解读不同，进而触发相似但描述上不同的身份要素共同演化过程。
While prior research suggests that ventures not yet present in a given geographic community might threaten reflective aspects of community identity (i.e. materiality and rhetoric), it has yet to explain the divergent outcomes they might engender. In this article, we develop a comparative case study of communities where recreational cannabis dispensaries were founded and underlaid a noticeably different effect on identity reflections. Our findings suggest that different threat interpretations—founded in communal characterizations of history—spur theoretically similar yet descriptively different processes through which these elements co-evolve. Furthermore, these processes involve a wide range of actors and occur irrespective of the venture’s ultimate influence on reflections of community identity.