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I want to thank Chris Swader, Tine Hanrieder, and Volker Balli for helpful comments.
Conceptually, these three dimensions refer to the works of Mead (2002), Schutz and Luckmann (1973), and Honneth (1996).
‘Face’ is the respondent's chosen pseudonym.
The label of ‘trajectory’ as it is used here essentially refers to disorderly social processes (Riemann and Schütze 1991).
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Reiter, H. The uncertainty of liberation in the New West. J Int Relat Dev 12, 395–402 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1057/jird.2009.26
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