Shelly Matthews
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195393323
- eISBN:
- 9780199866618
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195393323.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
This book situates Acts’ story of Stephen’s death within the emerging discourse of early Christian martyrdom, challenging the historicity of this narrative and arguing for its significance in ...
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This book situates Acts’ story of Stephen’s death within the emerging discourse of early Christian martyrdom, challenging the historicity of this narrative and arguing for its significance in constructing a social group of Christians, distinct from “the Jews.” It analyzes Stephen as the perfect martyr in terms of rhetorical fittingness, noting key aspects of the story perfectly suited to the rhetorical aims of Luke-Acts to denigrate nonbelieving Jews, to affirm Roman imperial views on security, and to introduce “marcionite” identity claims concerning the distinctiveness of Christian mercy. It also analyzes the Christian tradition that Stephen was perfected through his dying forgiveness prayer. This distinctive prayer proved more radical than Gospel teaching on enemy love since the plea for forgiveness of undeserving persecutors, more so than the enemy love exhortation, posed a challenge to notions of cosmic justice. The prayer was frequently read intransitively, as idealizing the one who so prays, without having any effect on the prayer’s object, thereby functioning analogously to the Roman discourse of clemency. Those who read the prayer otherwise landed upon this radical challenge, which explains the prayer’s complicated reception history. The book also introduces related extracanonical narratives of the martyrdom of James in Hegesippus, Josephus, and the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions to disrupt the perfect coherence and singularity of the canonical narrative and to evoke a more complex historical narrative of violence, solidarity, and resistance among Jews and Christians under empire.Less
This book situates Acts’ story of Stephen’s death within the emerging discourse of early Christian martyrdom, challenging the historicity of this narrative and arguing for its significance in constructing a social group of Christians, distinct from “the Jews.” It analyzes Stephen as the perfect martyr in terms of rhetorical fittingness, noting key aspects of the story perfectly suited to the rhetorical aims of Luke-Acts to denigrate nonbelieving Jews, to affirm Roman imperial views on security, and to introduce “marcionite” identity claims concerning the distinctiveness of Christian mercy. It also analyzes the Christian tradition that Stephen was perfected through his dying forgiveness prayer. This distinctive prayer proved more radical than Gospel teaching on enemy love since the plea for forgiveness of undeserving persecutors, more so than the enemy love exhortation, posed a challenge to notions of cosmic justice. The prayer was frequently read intransitively, as idealizing the one who so prays, without having any effect on the prayer’s object, thereby functioning analogously to the Roman discourse of clemency. Those who read the prayer otherwise landed upon this radical challenge, which explains the prayer’s complicated reception history. The book also introduces related extracanonical narratives of the martyrdom of James in Hegesippus, Josephus, and the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions to disrupt the perfect coherence and singularity of the canonical narrative and to evoke a more complex historical narrative of violence, solidarity, and resistance among Jews and Christians under empire.
Shelly Matthews
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195393323
- eISBN:
- 9780199866618
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195393323.003.0000
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
This chapter introduces the arguments of Boyarin, Lieu, and van Henten concerning martyrdom and identity construction among Jews and Christians, arguing that the death of Stephen should be considered ...
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This chapter introduces the arguments of Boyarin, Lieu, and van Henten concerning martyrdom and identity construction among Jews and Christians, arguing that the death of Stephen should be considered through this theoretical lens. As supporting argument for considering Stephen alongside second-century martyrologies, it situates Acts as an early second-century text. Appropriating Castelli’s arguments concerning martyrdom in Christian cultural memory, it argues that scholarly assertions concerning the historicity of Stephen’s death are more indebted to the force of cultural memory than to the historical-critical method. While concurring with Penner that verisimilitude, not “historical accuracy,” is the coin of ancient historiography, it then moves to suggest that this is not a reason to abandon the historiographic project but rather to frame historical narrative differently, in terms of rhetoric and ethic, as has been long argued in biblical studies by Schüssler Fiorenza.Less
This chapter introduces the arguments of Boyarin, Lieu, and van Henten concerning martyrdom and identity construction among Jews and Christians, arguing that the death of Stephen should be considered through this theoretical lens. As supporting argument for considering Stephen alongside second-century martyrologies, it situates Acts as an early second-century text. Appropriating Castelli’s arguments concerning martyrdom in Christian cultural memory, it argues that scholarly assertions concerning the historicity of Stephen’s death are more indebted to the force of cultural memory than to the historical-critical method. While concurring with Penner that verisimilitude, not “historical accuracy,” is the coin of ancient historiography, it then moves to suggest that this is not a reason to abandon the historiographic project but rather to frame historical narrative differently, in terms of rhetoric and ethic, as has been long argued in biblical studies by Schüssler Fiorenza.
Sylvia Huot
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199252121
- eISBN:
- 9780191719110
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199252121.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
The conclusion reflects on the literary texts that have been examined and on their implications for medieval notions of identity construction and dissolution. These texts manifest — and also work to ...
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The conclusion reflects on the literary texts that have been examined and on their implications for medieval notions of identity construction and dissolution. These texts manifest — and also work to suppress — an ambivalence whereby identity norms are seen to be arbitrary and forcibly imposed, yet also natural and necessary. While they may entertain the possibility of questioning or undermining social norms, such texts ultimately work to naturalise these norms and to produce an understanding of what constitutes an acceptable ‘self’.Less
The conclusion reflects on the literary texts that have been examined and on their implications for medieval notions of identity construction and dissolution. These texts manifest — and also work to suppress — an ambivalence whereby identity norms are seen to be arbitrary and forcibly imposed, yet also natural and necessary. While they may entertain the possibility of questioning or undermining social norms, such texts ultimately work to naturalise these norms and to produce an understanding of what constitutes an acceptable ‘self’.
Michal Krumer-Nevo and Menny Malka
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199732074
- eISBN:
- 9780199933457
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199732074.003.0011
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This article follows the quest for identity of immigrant boys from the Caucasus to Israel, and focuses on the intersectionality of ethnicity, class, and gender in this process. Based on narrative ...
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This article follows the quest for identity of immigrant boys from the Caucasus to Israel, and focuses on the intersectionality of ethnicity, class, and gender in this process. Based on narrative interviews, the article shows the boys’ identities as multifaceted and dynamic, constructed by the boys themselves but also shaped by social forces imposed on them. The boys construct their identities in response to “identity wounds”: experiences of prejudice, pain, and degradation that are linked with the low value attributed to their ethnicity in Israeli society, and that occur in three different social arenas (the schools, the family and its relations to the labor market, and the social milieu). The boys respond to the attack on their ethnicity through forming an idealized ethnic identity, characterized by hyper-masculinity. Based on high levels of social solidarity and brotherhood, Kavkazi masculinity serves them as a source for individual power and pride as well as to protect the value of the ethnic community. The findings are discussed in the context of multiculturalism in Israel.Less
This article follows the quest for identity of immigrant boys from the Caucasus to Israel, and focuses on the intersectionality of ethnicity, class, and gender in this process. Based on narrative interviews, the article shows the boys’ identities as multifaceted and dynamic, constructed by the boys themselves but also shaped by social forces imposed on them. The boys construct their identities in response to “identity wounds”: experiences of prejudice, pain, and degradation that are linked with the low value attributed to their ethnicity in Israeli society, and that occur in three different social arenas (the schools, the family and its relations to the labor market, and the social milieu). The boys respond to the attack on their ethnicity through forming an idealized ethnic identity, characterized by hyper-masculinity. Based on high levels of social solidarity and brotherhood, Kavkazi masculinity serves them as a source for individual power and pride as well as to protect the value of the ethnic community. The findings are discussed in the context of multiculturalism in Israel.
Dennis A. Gioia and Shubha Patvardhan
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199640997
- eISBN:
- 9780191738388
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199640997.003.0003
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Organization Studies
Rather than viewing organizational identity in the usual fashion as some sort of entity, thing, or “being,” we suggest that identity might be better viewed in terms of ongoing process or flow. We ...
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Rather than viewing organizational identity in the usual fashion as some sort of entity, thing, or “being,” we suggest that identity might be better viewed in terms of ongoing process or flow. We argue that such a counterintuitive stance generates a different way of understanding identity, which when viewed in concert with its more usual portrayal, actually produces a more insightful understanding of this key concept. We touch on several of the debates surrounding organizational identity and suggest approaches to studying its dynamics from a process research perspective.Less
Rather than viewing organizational identity in the usual fashion as some sort of entity, thing, or “being,” we suggest that identity might be better viewed in terms of ongoing process or flow. We argue that such a counterintuitive stance generates a different way of understanding identity, which when viewed in concert with its more usual portrayal, actually produces a more insightful understanding of this key concept. We touch on several of the debates surrounding organizational identity and suggest approaches to studying its dynamics from a process research perspective.
Dúnlaith Bird
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199644162
- eISBN:
- 9780199949984
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199644162.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This chapter explores the original paradigm of vagabondage. An increasingly totemic concept in European women’s travel writing from the 1850s onwards, vagabondage offers an alternative model of ...
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This chapter explores the original paradigm of vagabondage. An increasingly totemic concept in European women’s travel writing from the 1850s onwards, vagabondage offers an alternative model of mobility and gender construction. The chapter begins by mapping the development of vagabondage from its historical origins to its reformulation as women’s movement from 1850. From forced economic migration in fourteenth-century Europe, vagabondage gradually metamorphoses into a criminal activity, a seditious plague on the nation state, as close textual analysis of Royal Statutes from Britain and France shows. It also constitutes a marginal literary movement, from Elizabethan rogue’s literature to Victor Hugo’s vagabond heroes. The chapter uses Isabelle Eberhardt’s early travel writing and Colette’s La Vagabonde (1911) to elucidate the central characteristics and themes of women’s vagabondage. The final section examines official repression of female vagabondage and the appearance of modern ‘rogue literature’ as a response to this repression in the travelogues of Freya Stark.Less
This chapter explores the original paradigm of vagabondage. An increasingly totemic concept in European women’s travel writing from the 1850s onwards, vagabondage offers an alternative model of mobility and gender construction. The chapter begins by mapping the development of vagabondage from its historical origins to its reformulation as women’s movement from 1850. From forced economic migration in fourteenth-century Europe, vagabondage gradually metamorphoses into a criminal activity, a seditious plague on the nation state, as close textual analysis of Royal Statutes from Britain and France shows. It also constitutes a marginal literary movement, from Elizabethan rogue’s literature to Victor Hugo’s vagabond heroes. The chapter uses Isabelle Eberhardt’s early travel writing and Colette’s La Vagabonde (1911) to elucidate the central characteristics and themes of women’s vagabondage. The final section examines official repression of female vagabondage and the appearance of modern ‘rogue literature’ as a response to this repression in the travelogues of Freya Stark.
Lynn Schofield Clark
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199899616
- eISBN:
- 9780199980161
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199899616.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
In this chapter, we learn more about how young people experience parental approaches to digital and mobile media. As they get older, young people increasingly desire respect and connection from their ...
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In this chapter, we learn more about how young people experience parental approaches to digital and mobile media. As they get older, young people increasingly desire respect and connection from their peers, and they seek these through self-expression that's enabled with digital and mobile media. Young people need to learn how much to reveal about themselves online in order to seem accessible, and how much to withhold so as not to come across as needy and insecure. They need to figure out how to reveal something of themselves so that others they care about will recognize and acknowledge them, while also discovering how much to rely on popular culture to define themselves; and, finally, they need to figure out how to present themselves as engaged in certain pursuits, like gaming or academics, without alienating themselves from peer cultures that do not offer support for such practices.Less
In this chapter, we learn more about how young people experience parental approaches to digital and mobile media. As they get older, young people increasingly desire respect and connection from their peers, and they seek these through self-expression that's enabled with digital and mobile media. Young people need to learn how much to reveal about themselves online in order to seem accessible, and how much to withhold so as not to come across as needy and insecure. They need to figure out how to reveal something of themselves so that others they care about will recognize and acknowledge them, while also discovering how much to rely on popular culture to define themselves; and, finally, they need to figure out how to present themselves as engaged in certain pursuits, like gaming or academics, without alienating themselves from peer cultures that do not offer support for such practices.
Ronnee Schreiber
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199764013
- eISBN:
- 9780199897186
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199764013.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter analyses the role of women in the conservative movement. It sets Sarah Palin against the background of a tradition of mobilization by right-wing women and explains how the growing ...
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This chapter analyses the role of women in the conservative movement. It sets Sarah Palin against the background of a tradition of mobilization by right-wing women and explains how the growing movement of conservative women activists differs from liberal feminism.Less
This chapter analyses the role of women in the conservative movement. It sets Sarah Palin against the background of a tradition of mobilization by right-wing women and explains how the growing movement of conservative women activists differs from liberal feminism.
JULIAN WRIGHT
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199264889
- eISBN:
- 9780191718380
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199264889.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This book provides the conceptual framework for a rediscovery of regionalism in France. The occultation of regionalism persists today despite its reappearance in some academic fields. Where ...
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This book provides the conceptual framework for a rediscovery of regionalism in France. The occultation of regionalism persists today despite its reappearance in some academic fields. Where regionalism has reemerged as a subject worthy of study, two developments in particular have helped to shed light on it. The revival of ethnology in the late 1970s had a strong influence, inclining contemporary students of folklore to take greater account of their predecessors in the Belle Époque. The second development that has drawn new attention to Belle Époque regionalism has been the success of cultural history, and in particular one of its central paradigms, the ‘construction of identity’. This book looks at the occultation of regionalism in French history and the history of the French political thought, the political ideas of Jean Charles-Brun and the role of Fédération Régionaliste Française (FRF) which he founded in 1900, the link between regionalism and the right, and the association between regionalist movement and political eclecticism.Less
This book provides the conceptual framework for a rediscovery of regionalism in France. The occultation of regionalism persists today despite its reappearance in some academic fields. Where regionalism has reemerged as a subject worthy of study, two developments in particular have helped to shed light on it. The revival of ethnology in the late 1970s had a strong influence, inclining contemporary students of folklore to take greater account of their predecessors in the Belle Époque. The second development that has drawn new attention to Belle Époque regionalism has been the success of cultural history, and in particular one of its central paradigms, the ‘construction of identity’. This book looks at the occultation of regionalism in French history and the history of the French political thought, the political ideas of Jean Charles-Brun and the role of Fédération Régionaliste Française (FRF) which he founded in 1900, the link between regionalism and the right, and the association between regionalist movement and political eclecticism.
Daniel Hurewitz
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520249257
- eISBN:
- 9780520941694
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520249257.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
One of the iconic persons of Edendale, Los Angeles was Julian Eltinge, a film and vaudeville sensation. While he was hailed and adored as one of the best performers of his time, Eltinge lost his ...
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One of the iconic persons of Edendale, Los Angeles was Julian Eltinge, a film and vaudeville sensation. While he was hailed and adored as one of the best performers of his time, Eltinge lost his splendor as a star. Sixty years after his death, his name was not remembered, because Eltinge was a particular kind of performer; one whose performances made him a star in the 1910s, but whose mode of performance was scorned by the mid-century and largely forgotten at the century’s end. Eltinge was a spectacular female impersonator. This book is not only about Edendale and its communities. It discusses identities, such as those of the artists, the Communists, and the homosexuals. The book discusses the politicization of sexual identity, and the changing notions and practices of selfhood. It traces the intellectual developments and the application of those ideas in how people built individual lives and communities. The construction of identity emerged from complex interactions. The emergence of homosexual politics and identity politics was not only a creative product of many homosexuals; rather, it was shaped by the community that was re-imagining the relationship between emotions and politics. Los Angeles, captivated by the ties between vice, race, and politics, participated in that transformation, which led to a political world.Less
One of the iconic persons of Edendale, Los Angeles was Julian Eltinge, a film and vaudeville sensation. While he was hailed and adored as one of the best performers of his time, Eltinge lost his splendor as a star. Sixty years after his death, his name was not remembered, because Eltinge was a particular kind of performer; one whose performances made him a star in the 1910s, but whose mode of performance was scorned by the mid-century and largely forgotten at the century’s end. Eltinge was a spectacular female impersonator. This book is not only about Edendale and its communities. It discusses identities, such as those of the artists, the Communists, and the homosexuals. The book discusses the politicization of sexual identity, and the changing notions and practices of selfhood. It traces the intellectual developments and the application of those ideas in how people built individual lives and communities. The construction of identity emerged from complex interactions. The emergence of homosexual politics and identity politics was not only a creative product of many homosexuals; rather, it was shaped by the community that was re-imagining the relationship between emotions and politics. Los Angeles, captivated by the ties between vice, race, and politics, participated in that transformation, which led to a political world.
Matthew Thiessen
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199793563
- eISBN:
- 9780199914456
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199793563.003.0000
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
The introduction focuses on the role circumcision played in constructing Jewish identity in antiquity. It demonstrates that ancient Jews disputed not only the function of circumcision but also how ...
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The introduction focuses on the role circumcision played in constructing Jewish identity in antiquity. It demonstrates that ancient Jews disputed not only the function of circumcision but also how one determined a person’s Jewishness. Who was a Jew? How could one become a Jew? Could a non-Jewish person become a Jew? Ancient Jews disputed each of these questions, demonstrating how variegated Judaism was in this period. Consequently, it is not surprising that early Christians also disagreed about whether Gentile believers in Jesus could benefit from undergoing circumcision and attempting to become Jews. It argues that modern scholarship on ancient Judaism and early Christianity has wrongly described early Jewish perceptions of circumcision.Less
The introduction focuses on the role circumcision played in constructing Jewish identity in antiquity. It demonstrates that ancient Jews disputed not only the function of circumcision but also how one determined a person’s Jewishness. Who was a Jew? How could one become a Jew? Could a non-Jewish person become a Jew? Ancient Jews disputed each of these questions, demonstrating how variegated Judaism was in this period. Consequently, it is not surprising that early Christians also disagreed about whether Gentile believers in Jesus could benefit from undergoing circumcision and attempting to become Jews. It argues that modern scholarship on ancient Judaism and early Christianity has wrongly described early Jewish perceptions of circumcision.
Matthew Thiessen
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199793563
- eISBN:
- 9780199914456
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199793563.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This book examines ancient Jewish thought with regard to Jewish identity construction, circumcision, and conversion. It argues that there is no evidence in the Hebrew Bible that circumcision was ...
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This book examines ancient Jewish thought with regard to Jewish identity construction, circumcision, and conversion. It argues that there is no evidence in the Hebrew Bible that circumcision was considered to be a rite of conversion to Israelite religion. The infant circumcision that was practiced within Israelite and early Jewish society, and was demanded by Genesis 17, excluded from the covenant those not properly descended from Abraham. In the Second Temple period many Jews did begin to conceive of Jewishness in terms that enabled Gentiles to become Jews. Nonetheless, some Jews, especially the author of Jubilees, found this definition of Jewishness problematic, and they defended the borders of Jewishness by reasserting a strictly genealogical conception of Jewish identity. Consequently, some Gentiles who underwent conversion to Judaism in this period faced criticism because of their suspect ethnicity. Second Temple Jewish sources record such exclusion with regard to the Herodians, who were Idumean converts. This examination of the way in which Jews in the Second Temple period perceived circumcision and conversion provides a better understanding of early Christianity as the book of Acts portrays it. The final chapter demonstrates how careful attention to a definition of Jewishness that was based on genealogical descent has implications for understanding the disputes over the early Christian mission to the Gentiles.Less
This book examines ancient Jewish thought with regard to Jewish identity construction, circumcision, and conversion. It argues that there is no evidence in the Hebrew Bible that circumcision was considered to be a rite of conversion to Israelite religion. The infant circumcision that was practiced within Israelite and early Jewish society, and was demanded by Genesis 17, excluded from the covenant those not properly descended from Abraham. In the Second Temple period many Jews did begin to conceive of Jewishness in terms that enabled Gentiles to become Jews. Nonetheless, some Jews, especially the author of Jubilees, found this definition of Jewishness problematic, and they defended the borders of Jewishness by reasserting a strictly genealogical conception of Jewish identity. Consequently, some Gentiles who underwent conversion to Judaism in this period faced criticism because of their suspect ethnicity. Second Temple Jewish sources record such exclusion with regard to the Herodians, who were Idumean converts. This examination of the way in which Jews in the Second Temple period perceived circumcision and conversion provides a better understanding of early Christianity as the book of Acts portrays it. The final chapter demonstrates how careful attention to a definition of Jewishness that was based on genealogical descent has implications for understanding the disputes over the early Christian mission to the Gentiles.
Zebulon Vance Miletsky
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781447301011
- eISBN:
- 9781447307228
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447301011.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This essay traces the contested meanings throughout history of terminology for multiracial people and the role that this historical legacy of “naming” plays into how President Obama is read as ...
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This essay traces the contested meanings throughout history of terminology for multiracial people and the role that this historical legacy of “naming” plays into how President Obama is read as African American, but still asserts a strategic biracial identity through the use of language, symbols, and interactions with the media.Less
This essay traces the contested meanings throughout history of terminology for multiracial people and the role that this historical legacy of “naming” plays into how President Obama is read as African American, but still asserts a strategic biracial identity through the use of language, symbols, and interactions with the media.
Lynn V. Monrouxe and Kieran Sweeney
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780195383263
- eISBN:
- 9780199344871
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195383263.003.0003
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
Medical education entails more than just learning knowledge and skills; it is also about the formation of a new identity: learning about the attitudes, values, and behaviors expected of a doctor. ...
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Medical education entails more than just learning knowledge and skills; it is also about the formation of a new identity: learning about the attitudes, values, and behaviors expected of a doctor. Medical students inevitably experience a number of stressful situations, including the complex process of negotiating personal and professional identities in their encounters with others. In this chapter we focus on narratives from a longitudinal solicited audio diary study investigating how individuals entering medical education (n=17) develop their identities as medical students and doctors through the spontaneous stories they conveyed over time. From 399 narratives received to date, we discuss three cornerstone narratives of personal encounters with illness and dying that cut across a number of content themes and narrative types. The narratives represent the initial perspectives of looking onto, living alongside and living with illness, dying, and death, focusing on students’ subsequent struggle between personal and professional identities. We also discuss the audio diary method and its potential to develop students’ awareness of what they bring to the clinical encounter. Following the principle of raising a reflexive awareness of how we talk, medical students might begin to develop a narrative competence that can facilitate personal reflection on their new understandings. Through such reflection students could consider how things might change in the future, both in their understandings of themselves and their understandings of interactions with others.Less
Medical education entails more than just learning knowledge and skills; it is also about the formation of a new identity: learning about the attitudes, values, and behaviors expected of a doctor. Medical students inevitably experience a number of stressful situations, including the complex process of negotiating personal and professional identities in their encounters with others. In this chapter we focus on narratives from a longitudinal solicited audio diary study investigating how individuals entering medical education (n=17) develop their identities as medical students and doctors through the spontaneous stories they conveyed over time. From 399 narratives received to date, we discuss three cornerstone narratives of personal encounters with illness and dying that cut across a number of content themes and narrative types. The narratives represent the initial perspectives of looking onto, living alongside and living with illness, dying, and death, focusing on students’ subsequent struggle between personal and professional identities. We also discuss the audio diary method and its potential to develop students’ awareness of what they bring to the clinical encounter. Following the principle of raising a reflexive awareness of how we talk, medical students might begin to develop a narrative competence that can facilitate personal reflection on their new understandings. Through such reflection students could consider how things might change in the future, both in their understandings of themselves and their understandings of interactions with others.
Jochen Peter, Patti M. Valkenburg, and Cédric Fluckiger
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847424396
- eISBN:
- 9781447302643
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847424396.003.0007
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
Identity construction, the development of stable and fulfilling friendships, and the ability to disclose private information in appropriate ways and settings are important developmental tasks in ...
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Identity construction, the development of stable and fulfilling friendships, and the ability to disclose private information in appropriate ways and settings are important developmental tasks in adolescence. However, despite the significance of these developmental tasks and their potential relation to adolescents' use of social networking sites, research on the issue is still scarce and scattered. This chapter systematizes and reviews the available literature in order to answer the question of how adolescents' use of social networking sites shapes, and is shaped by, the three developmental tasks just mentioned. To contextualize the literature, a brief account is given of what is known about European adolescents' use of social-networking sites and parents' concerns about their children's activities on them.Less
Identity construction, the development of stable and fulfilling friendships, and the ability to disclose private information in appropriate ways and settings are important developmental tasks in adolescence. However, despite the significance of these developmental tasks and their potential relation to adolescents' use of social networking sites, research on the issue is still scarce and scattered. This chapter systematizes and reviews the available literature in order to answer the question of how adolescents' use of social networking sites shapes, and is shaped by, the three developmental tasks just mentioned. To contextualize the literature, a brief account is given of what is known about European adolescents' use of social-networking sites and parents' concerns about their children's activities on them.
Reem Bassiouney
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780748689644
- eISBN:
- 9780748697083
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748689644.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Middle East History
This chapter summarizes the preceding discussions and describes the contributions of this work and the framework proposed. It covers the twofold function of language in identity construction; how ...
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This chapter summarizes the preceding discussions and describes the contributions of this work and the framework proposed. It covers the twofold function of language in identity construction; how Egyptians are defined in public discourse; and theorizing indexes and identity in the Egyptian context.Less
This chapter summarizes the preceding discussions and describes the contributions of this work and the framework proposed. It covers the twofold function of language in identity construction; how Egyptians are defined in public discourse; and theorizing indexes and identity in the Egyptian context.
Paul Connolly
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861347961
- eISBN:
- 9781447303916
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861347961.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter aims to show that ‘race’ is really a fundamental aspect of life within Northern Ireland. It begins by discussing the salience of the rural in relation to constructions of identity and ...
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This chapter aims to show that ‘race’ is really a fundamental aspect of life within Northern Ireland. It begins by discussing the salience of the rural in relation to constructions of identity and senses of belonging in Northern Ireland. The chapter demonstrates how ‘Whiteness’ has been a key element of nationalism and unionism within the region. This further implies that it tends to remain a key aspect of how the two main ethnic groups in Northern Ireland – Protestants and Catholics – see themselves. The chapter also discusses the implications for understanding the nature and extent of racism in other rural areas across the United Kingdom.Less
This chapter aims to show that ‘race’ is really a fundamental aspect of life within Northern Ireland. It begins by discussing the salience of the rural in relation to constructions of identity and senses of belonging in Northern Ireland. The chapter demonstrates how ‘Whiteness’ has been a key element of nationalism and unionism within the region. This further implies that it tends to remain a key aspect of how the two main ethnic groups in Northern Ireland – Protestants and Catholics – see themselves. The chapter also discusses the implications for understanding the nature and extent of racism in other rural areas across the United Kingdom.
Kevin Hetherington
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861347961
- eISBN:
- 9781447303916
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861347961.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter includes some reprinted material from New Age travellers, vanloads of uproarious humanity, a book written by Kevin Hetherington. Some of the extracts are edited, and these scrutinise the ...
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This chapter includes some reprinted material from New Age travellers, vanloads of uproarious humanity, a book written by Kevin Hetherington. Some of the extracts are edited, and these scrutinise the formations of New Age Traveller identities in Britain during the 1980s and 1990s. The chapter also examines the processes of these identity constructions, and subsequently reveals how notions of ethnicity, class, and rurality are redrawn and intersect to produce a very different narrative of belonging to, and desiring to be in, rural spaces. The discussion chapter stresses that in this narrative, the countryside is more than just the place where composites of identities are rejected and remade. Rather, the countryside is at the heart of the identity-formation process.Less
This chapter includes some reprinted material from New Age travellers, vanloads of uproarious humanity, a book written by Kevin Hetherington. Some of the extracts are edited, and these scrutinise the formations of New Age Traveller identities in Britain during the 1980s and 1990s. The chapter also examines the processes of these identity constructions, and subsequently reveals how notions of ethnicity, class, and rurality are redrawn and intersect to produce a very different narrative of belonging to, and desiring to be in, rural spaces. The discussion chapter stresses that in this narrative, the countryside is more than just the place where composites of identities are rejected and remade. Rather, the countryside is at the heart of the identity-formation process.
Mary Ellen Konieczny
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199965779
- eISBN:
- 9780199346059
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199965779.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Chapter 2, “Belonging,” examines the ongoing process of Catholic identity construction through the personal religious narratives told at Assumption and St. Brigitta in order to show how these ...
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Chapter 2, “Belonging,” examines the ongoing process of Catholic identity construction through the personal religious narratives told at Assumption and St. Brigitta in order to show how these identity boundaries are constructed in ways that result in polarizing tendencies surrounding moral issues related to family life. These discourses are contextualized by a culture of religious choice on the American religious landscape and by the historical Church reforms of Vatican II. They reflect each parish setting's local culture, as well as different patterns of generational difference and relations with parishioners’ families of origin. These narratives both create in-group solidarity and establish their distinctiveness from others, including from other Catholics, especially by each group's distinctive and opposed criticisms of the Catholic Church, which contributes to and supports polarizing tendencies surrounding family-related issues.Less
Chapter 2, “Belonging,” examines the ongoing process of Catholic identity construction through the personal religious narratives told at Assumption and St. Brigitta in order to show how these identity boundaries are constructed in ways that result in polarizing tendencies surrounding moral issues related to family life. These discourses are contextualized by a culture of religious choice on the American religious landscape and by the historical Church reforms of Vatican II. They reflect each parish setting's local culture, as well as different patterns of generational difference and relations with parishioners’ families of origin. These narratives both create in-group solidarity and establish their distinctiveness from others, including from other Catholics, especially by each group's distinctive and opposed criticisms of the Catholic Church, which contributes to and supports polarizing tendencies surrounding family-related issues.
James R. Lewis
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199779239
- eISBN:
- 9780199979646
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199779239.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, World Religions
This chapter examines conversion experiences in Paganism and Satanism. The goal is to address the common misconception that people joining such movements are either passive, confused or adolescent. ...
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This chapter examines conversion experiences in Paganism and Satanism. The goal is to address the common misconception that people joining such movements are either passive, confused or adolescent. Through a theoretical discussion and a presentation of empirical data, the chapter criticizes both external and internal stereotypes of conversion. Thus explanations based on cult behaviour, adolescent crisis, and the metaphor of “coming home” are incomplete accounts for engagement in loose networks such as the pagan or satanic milieu, let alone the groups arising from them. Further, the chapter advocates investigating “ideological fit” as a supplement to sociological approaches like social pull and affective experience, especially when confronted with decentralized networks propagated mainly through books, popular culture and the internet. Accordingly, a terminological shift from conversion to identity construction is suggested to highlight the transformation of both self and community today.Less
This chapter examines conversion experiences in Paganism and Satanism. The goal is to address the common misconception that people joining such movements are either passive, confused or adolescent. Through a theoretical discussion and a presentation of empirical data, the chapter criticizes both external and internal stereotypes of conversion. Thus explanations based on cult behaviour, adolescent crisis, and the metaphor of “coming home” are incomplete accounts for engagement in loose networks such as the pagan or satanic milieu, let alone the groups arising from them. Further, the chapter advocates investigating “ideological fit” as a supplement to sociological approaches like social pull and affective experience, especially when confronted with decentralized networks propagated mainly through books, popular culture and the internet. Accordingly, a terminological shift from conversion to identity construction is suggested to highlight the transformation of both self and community today.
