Sarah Ernst
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199732074
- eISBN:
- 9780199933457
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199732074.003.0012
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
Tying up to a postmodernist notion of identity as fragmented, incongruent, and constructed in the process of narrating (Pavlenko, 2006, pp. 13ff.), this chapter shows how Finnish-German research ...
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Tying up to a postmodernist notion of identity as fragmented, incongruent, and constructed in the process of narrating (Pavlenko, 2006, pp. 13ff.), this chapter shows how Finnish-German research participants evaluate cultural and linguistic practices of the national spaces of Germany and Finland to construct conflicting bilingual and bicultural identities in a narrative interview. With the help of the analytical framework of Positioning Theory that takes the interactional embedding of the recounted narratives into account, the analysis demonstrates that the constructed identities grow out of the interview talk and are multiple on different interactional levels. On a vertical level, tellers orient both to the local interactional requirements of the interview and to broader discourses of (Finnish-German) bilingualism and biculturalism in the same moment in time. On a horizontal level they make national space relevant in different moments in time and thereby construct partly incommensurate bilingual and bicultural identities.Less
Tying up to a postmodernist notion of identity as fragmented, incongruent, and constructed in the process of narrating (Pavlenko, 2006, pp. 13ff.), this chapter shows how Finnish-German research participants evaluate cultural and linguistic practices of the national spaces of Germany and Finland to construct conflicting bilingual and bicultural identities in a narrative interview. With the help of the analytical framework of Positioning Theory that takes the interactional embedding of the recounted narratives into account, the analysis demonstrates that the constructed identities grow out of the interview talk and are multiple on different interactional levels. On a vertical level, tellers orient both to the local interactional requirements of the interview and to broader discourses of (Finnish-German) bilingualism and biculturalism in the same moment in time. On a horizontal level they make national space relevant in different moments in time and thereby construct partly incommensurate bilingual and bicultural identities.
Magdalena Waligórska
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199995790
- eISBN:
- 9780199346424
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199995790.003.0007
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter speaks about the challenge that playing the music of the other poses to the identity of musicians. Presenting often intimate accounts of how non-Jewish klezmer revivalists have come to ...
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This chapter speaks about the challenge that playing the music of the other poses to the identity of musicians. Presenting often intimate accounts of how non-Jewish klezmer revivalists have come to terms with the dark chapters of the German and Polish past, the section explores both the conditions of crisis and opportunity for interethnic dialogue that the klezmer scene generates. Showing how non-Jewish klezmer revivalists encounter anti-Semitism or express particular affinity towards Jews, the chapter introduces the concept of “situational identity” (Okamura), examining the possibilities of bonding through the music of the other. Discussing the complex subjective and objective criteria of Jewish identity within the klezmer scene, the chapter also addresses what happens to patterns of group identification in a situation of cultural appropriation.Less
This chapter speaks about the challenge that playing the music of the other poses to the identity of musicians. Presenting often intimate accounts of how non-Jewish klezmer revivalists have come to terms with the dark chapters of the German and Polish past, the section explores both the conditions of crisis and opportunity for interethnic dialogue that the klezmer scene generates. Showing how non-Jewish klezmer revivalists encounter anti-Semitism or express particular affinity towards Jews, the chapter introduces the concept of “situational identity” (Okamura), examining the possibilities of bonding through the music of the other. Discussing the complex subjective and objective criteria of Jewish identity within the klezmer scene, the chapter also addresses what happens to patterns of group identification in a situation of cultural appropriation.
Maijastina Kahlos
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- November 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190067250
- eISBN:
- 9780190067281
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190067250.003.0007
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter questions the categories ‘pagans’ and ‘heretics’ that were built and maintained as a given in imperial and ecclesiastical discourses. It discusses the construction of an identity as an ...
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This chapter questions the categories ‘pagans’ and ‘heretics’ that were built and maintained as a given in imperial and ecclesiastical discourses. It discusses the construction of an identity as an abstract and universal process, but profoundly embedded in specific historical, cultural, social, and material environments. Groups, but also individuals, have a propensity to mould their identities. Thus, despite an individual being classified as a Christian by late antique bishops, being Christian was not the only available alternative. An individual could activate and deactivate identities in a given situation from a situational selection of identities. The category ‘pagans’ developed by Christian writers should not be taken for granted. Instead, scholars ought to analyse the processes by means of which the late antique writers used categories such as ‘pagans’ and ‘heretics’, as well as ‘Christians’, to make sense of their world. The boundaries between groups such as late antique pagans and Christians were continuously shifting, negotiated, and redefined.Less
This chapter questions the categories ‘pagans’ and ‘heretics’ that were built and maintained as a given in imperial and ecclesiastical discourses. It discusses the construction of an identity as an abstract and universal process, but profoundly embedded in specific historical, cultural, social, and material environments. Groups, but also individuals, have a propensity to mould their identities. Thus, despite an individual being classified as a Christian by late antique bishops, being Christian was not the only available alternative. An individual could activate and deactivate identities in a given situation from a situational selection of identities. The category ‘pagans’ developed by Christian writers should not be taken for granted. Instead, scholars ought to analyse the processes by means of which the late antique writers used categories such as ‘pagans’ and ‘heretics’, as well as ‘Christians’, to make sense of their world. The boundaries between groups such as late antique pagans and Christians were continuously shifting, negotiated, and redefined.