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This article draws on the framing perspective to analyze identity construction. Based on the analysis of thirty in-depth interviews with members of a Spanish environmental movement organization, the author demonstrates how activists construct their identities and frame their personal experience. On one hand, activists align their personal identities with larger conceptions of group identity. On the other, they frame the uniqueness of personal experience in a biographical story that sustains their activism. The author analyzes how these two aspects come together in practice through several identity construction processes. Specifically, she examines how identity extension and identity transformation account for self-construction, and elaborate a third process, which she calls biographical identity integration. Biographical identity integration fills an analytical gap in the framing literature and sheds light on the complex relationship that exists between personal experience and identity construction in movement contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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