Aesthetics of Polarization: The Role of Conversion Narratives in Polarized Debates

How do stakeholders in highly polarized debates about abortion and gun rights use cultural forms of expression (e.g., the conversion memoir) to explain changes in their radical positions? While in residence at the University of East Anglia, I will work with Prof. Alan Finlayson, an expert on reactionary digital politics and the aesthetics of polarized discourses, to complete two new articles.