Drawing on social constructionist and post-structuralist theoretical frameworks, this study examined the complexities that constitute women’s narratives within a mining organisation in South Africa. With specific reference to the social constructs of identity, conflict and power, the aims of this study were to investigate how women narrate their experience, the ways in which women live with the tensions of a workplace that is potentially both liberating and limiting and the implications of these tensions for women’s well-being, identities and social roles. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine women in management positions and were analysed using an inductive emergent thematic analytical method. The nature of identity that emerged from the participants’ narratives was viewed as an act of weaving together the multiple strands of the self, where participants recognised the points at which these multiple strands intercept and where they diverge. At each point of interception and divergence there were expressions of ambiguous identity or identity salience. Identity was seen to be mediated by the micro-physics of power and, within this framework, participants were seen to be agents in negotiating an authentic and egalitarian self, and a space for women in mining.

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南非一家矿业组织中有关身份，权力和代理的女性叙事

这项研究利用社会建构主义和后建构主义的理论框架，研究了南非采矿组织中构成女性叙事的复杂性。具体研究身份，冲突和权力的社会结构，本研究的目的是调查妇女如何叙述自己的经历，妇女在可能释放和限制的工作场所的紧张气氛中生活的方式及其含义。这些压力关系到妇女的福祉，身份和社会角色。在管理职位上对九名女性进行了深入，半结构化的访谈，并使用归纳性紧急主题分析方法进行了分析。从参与者的叙述中出现的身份的本质被视为将自我的多条线编织在一起的一种行为，参与者在其中认识到这些多条线的截取点和发散点。在截取和发散的每个点，都有歧义身份或身份显着性的表达。身份被认为是由权力的微观物理学所调解的，在这个框架内，参与者被认为是谈判真实平等的自我以及妇女在采矿领域的谈判者。