Living With Uncertainty: Creating the Postmodern Self in Contemporary Australia

后现代性的生活以快速变化和不确定性为标志。随着传统的逐渐消逝，个人必须创造新的剧本来赋予生活意义和结构。通过对男女同性恋者的案例研究，这个项目将调查一群澳大利亚人是如何创造后现代自我的。在深度访谈的基础上，它追溯了后现代自我的话语和心理描述之间的关系及其政治影响。由于对情感生活特别感兴趣，这项研究将提供关于个人和社区如何创造性地管理后现代性的不确定条件的关键信息。

Life in postmodernity is marked by rapid change and uncertainty. Increasingly, as tradition is worn away, individuals must create new scripts to give life meaning and structure. Through a case study of gays and lesbians, this project will investigate how a group of Australians are creating postmodern selves. Drawing on in-depth interviews, it traces the relationship between discursive and psychological accounts of the postmodern self and their political effects. With a particular interest in emotional life, this study will provide critical information on how individuals and communities can manage creatively the uncertain conditions of postmodernity.