Berry Bullied

Tales of Torment, Identity, and Youth
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-19258-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten

Reihe: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives

In this examination of the ubiquitous practice of bullying among youth, compelling first person stories vividly convey the lived experience of peer torment and how it impacted the lives of five diverse young women. Author Keith Berry’s own autoethnographic narratives and analysis add important relational communication, methodological, and ethical dimensions to their accounts. The personal stories create an opening to understand how this form of physical and verbal violence shapes identities, relationships, communication, and the construction of meaning among a variety of youth. The layered narrative

- describes the practices constituting bullying and how youth work to cope with peer torment and its aftermath, largely focusing on identity construction and well being;

- addresses contemporary cyberbullying as well as other forms of relational aggression in many social contexts across race, gender, and sexual orientations;

- is written in a compelling way to be accessible to students in communication, education, psychology, social welfare, and other fields.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berry, Keith

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter One: Bullying: A Narrative Opening to a Relational Problem

Chapter Two: Cutting Through: The Journey and Horror of Finding Self-Love

Reflexive Interlude One: The Little Professor

Chapter Three: Pure Evil Entertainment

Reflexive Interlude Two: Rope Burn

Chapter Four: Flying Tomatoes: Cruella’s Clash with the Dalmatians

Reflexive Interlude Three: Stretch

Chapter Five: Highlight Girl: Finding Strength in her Weak Soul

Reflexive Interlude Four: Of Frogs and Friends

Chapter Six: A Narrative of Bullying and Rape

Reflexive Interlude Five: Bennies on the Floor

Chapter Seven: Opened—Bullying Communication and Identities, and the Power of Stories

Appendix

References

Über Autor(innen)

Keith Berry is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida and past Chair of the National Communication Association’s (NCA’s) Ethnography Division. He currently serves as Co-Chair of NCA’s Anti-Bullying Task Force.