Document Type
Journal Article
Keywords
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Publisher
Routledge/Taylor and Francis
Faculty
Faculty of Education and Arts
School
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA)
RAS ID
13019
Abstract
A dirt road arcs upward over rising ground. As the road forks, a woman walking the road is confronted with a choice: to the left, a narrow path is flanked by two men each standing on a gold rug, and to the right a wide road continues up a hill. Beyond the men, obscuring the path, is a thicket of thorns. There is a way through the thorns, but it is small. Looking back, the woman sees only a few people on the road. The woman chooses to take the wide road to the right, but on walking the road, suddenly realizes that she has already travelled this road and that it takes her to what she loved before, but that was a long time ago and much has changed. The woman returns to take the left fork and is received and welcomed by the two men. She crouches down to move through the dried branches, afraid of the thorns above.
Access Rights
free_to_read
Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in A Journal of Social Justice on 05 Dec 2011, available online: here.
This article was originally published as: Anomie. (2011). Healing through belief, biography, and social connection. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 23(4), 491-497. Original article available here