scholarly journals La identidad y el empoderamiento de las mujeres gambianas narrados a través de discursos fotográficos /

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ileana Landeros Casillas
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Collective Empowerment

El artículo pretende abordar dos temas principalmente: la construcción de la identidad de las mujeres gambianas actuales y el empoderamiento que han adquirido como parte del proceso de transformación al que se les ha forzado a introducirse. Ambos temas se vinculan con la narración fotográfica como una manera novedosa de hacer uso de los estudios artísticos a la luz de la construcción identitaria y el empoderamiento colectivo como base de proyectos económicos, políticos y socioculturales nacidosIdentity and empowerment of gambian women narrated through photographic speeches.The article intends to explore two topics in particular: the identity construction of current Gambian women and the empowerment that they have acquired as part of the transformation process that has forced them to enter by themselves. Both topics are linked with the photographic narration as a novel way of using art studies by the construction of identity and collective empowerment as the basis of economic, political and cultural projects born from the needs of these women. The speech is analyzed in this paper is created from the horizontality of the methodology Between Voices, considering subaltern studies, gender, feminist discourses and art education

Autonomy and Emancipation: The Challenge of Identity Construction

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-06
Author(s):  
Mariana Malvezzi ◽  
Tassara Tassara
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Cellular Basis ◽  
Humanities Education ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Current Challenge ◽  
The World ◽  
Easy Answer ◽  
Present World

Identity acts as a nucleus to the subject's references, their memories, their choices of life, to the construction of their history. Identity is, therefore, a minimal cellular basis from which life develops in its poetics of creation. The construction of identity thus has potential for the development of a critique, the establishment of a grammar of rules and conditions, for standing before the world. The path towards emancipation implies in exercising an external look at one's identity, the inherent existing narrative, to discover the paradigm of the minimum base from which one's life develops. With the increasing complexity of the postcolonial world, no straight or easy answer is at hand. The effort should draw towards the construction of conceptual tools that can enable reflection and critique. The humanities education, is one possible tool towards autonomy and emancipation once it encourages knowledge, construction and appraisal. The reflections brought to light through this work intends to fertilize the discussions about identity construction in the Brazilian present day context, characterized by a discourse that foster ruptures and decreases the possibilities of one’s identity. For this purpose, the current challenge of emancipation, will be developed through 6 analytical semantic dimensions which express the diversity and complexity of the actual scenario: Understanding identity, (CIAMPA, 1987; RICOEUR, 1990), as the synthetic goal of existence has the dynamism to give new possibilities to the frontier-men (HARTOG, 2004; LEVINÁS, 1972), whose challenge is the gain of consciousness of one’s own movement in the world. Marked by perversity (HONNETH, 2003) the present world enforces political, social, motivational, and subjective domination (CASTORIADIS, 1987). This scenario compels the frontier-men towards an emptied signifier alienating his possibilities of recognition. The search for emancipation (HABERMAS, 1983) asks for a critical look at the current formation of people's strategic thinking.

scholarly journals Sprechen Wir Deutsch? The construction of identity in Austria and South Tyrol

COMPASS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Barbara L. Hilden
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Positioning Theory ◽  
The South ◽  
Linguistic Identity ◽  
Lexical Development ◽  
South Tyrol ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Pronoun Use ◽  
The Creation

This paper examines some of the linguistic tools, techniques, means, and methods by which the populations of Austria and South Tyrol construct identity. In order to better situate these two communities, this paper begins with an overview of the conditions which led to the creation of each state. It then explains some of the ways in which language can be used as a tool of identity construction. Positioning theory details ways both these groups create categories of separationand belonging. Citing the use of Austrian German, dialect in literature, differing pronunciation, and lexical development, this paper examines how the population of Austria constructs a linguistic identity distancing itself from Germany. This paper also examines how, using similar linguistic tools such as pronoun use and naming techniques, the population of South Tyrol constructs its identity. In contrast to Austria, the South Tyroleans align themselves with Germany, creating closer ties with Germanic neighbours while distancing themselves from Italy. Each population positions itself in relation to Germany, either with or against, using linguistic tools to create a group identity.

Constructing Identity with Dreamstones: Megalithic Sites and Contemporary Nature Spirituality

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip Charles Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
World System ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Natural Order ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Communal Identity ◽  
Sacred Places ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Interpretive Process

For growing numbers of people, the postmodern construction of identity includes the search for a spirituality that reconnects them with the natural world and fosters activity that protects the ecosystem and its many forms of life. Practitioners of this "nature spirituality" construct their identities using a large toolkit of symbols, myths, histories, rituals, sacred places, and beliefs. The megalithic sites of Western Europe constitute one element of this toolkit. This paper considers the ways these sites are interpreted and experienced in the nature-spirituality subculture and how these interpretations and experiences help individuals construct empowering identities that tie together their spiritual and ecological commitments. This interpretive process is occurring outside the control of governing elites, ecclesiastical authorities, or dominant religious institutions. It is at root an exercise in both individual and communal identity construction, a movement of resistance to a world system that has lost its secure moorings in the natural order.

scholarly journals Constructing academic hierarchies

Pragmatics ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vally Lytra
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
School Based ◽  
Recurrent Activity ◽  
Break Time ◽  
Point Of Departure

In this paper I look at how through the use of teasing as a socially recurrent activity the members of a multilingual, multicultural and multiethnic peer group (comprised of majority Greek and minority Turkish-speaking children of Roma heritage) make particular identity ascriptions and displays salient and position themselves and others in particular ways in peer talk during break-time in an Athens primary school. Taking as a point of departure that identities are produced relationally, through systems of opposition (Barth 1969), the paper deals with how members of this school-based peer group exploit teasing as a versatile discursive device to construct one particular peer as a “poor” pupil and themselves by extension as “good” pupils in talk-in-interaction. The focus on the situated and relational construction of identity makes visible how children position themselves with regard to others in order to construct academic hierarchies. At the same time, it brings to the fore how through such positionings children may reproduce but also challenge powerful institutional discourses of academic success and failure in circulation in the classroom by negotiating identity options closer to their peer concerns. These processes of identity construction demonstrate how social selves are produced in interaction through contestation and collaboration and how identities may be simultaneously chosen and imposed through language use.

scholarly journals FORMAL SCHOOLING AND THE PROCESS OF IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION: EXPERIENCES OF MALAYSIAN YOUTHS IN ‘BAD’ SCHOOLS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 78-89
Author(s):  
Dianna Suzieanna Mohamad Shah ◽  
Airil Haimi Mohd Adnan
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Formal Schooling ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Human Lifespan ◽  
Teenagers And Young Adults ◽  
Self Discovery

In human lifespan development, identity construction is central within social and personal experiences, even more so for teenagers and young adults (youths) who are looking for their sense of self and own identity. The construction of identity involves the growth of a whole person and the development of a stable sense of self. At the same time, the process of identity construction causes some youths to become self-conscious about how others perceive them; this usually results in repeated self-discovery and identity experiment cycles. Their identities are thus constructed and reconstructed as they try out different role types in different settings, such as in schools. The focus of this research paper is to examine the experience of formal schooling and how it relates to the identity process of Malaysian youths. Employing qualitative face-to-face interviews, data were collected from six research participants from a private university in Selangor, Malaysia who were purposively selected for this empirical research. Three criteria for participant selection were used: That they have been in rural schools for most of their lives, the schools adopt a very didactic focus, and the schools have a limited number of highly trained and motivated teachers; in other words, they have experienced being in ‘bad’ schools. The research participants were selected from two different academic programs: Three undergraduate students from Bachelor in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) and another three from the Bachelor in Law program. Two research questions were posed. First, where does the experience of formal schooling figure in the identity construction of these youths? And second, what roles do the formal experience of schooling play in the lifespan identity development of these youths? Although not generalisable to all youths in Malaysia, the experiences of the participants contribute to advancing our knowledge of identity construction through the process of formal schooling.

scholarly journals Building a Ukrainian Identity in Odessa: Negotiation of Markers and Informal Nationalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Abel Polese
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Language Education ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Way

A large and established body of literature on nation building in post-socialist spaces has initially put emphasis on state-centred construction of identity references and markers such as language, education or institutions and governance. In contrast, a recent stream of scholarship has attempted to bring agency into identity debates to propose new tools and approaches that can be used in the study of identity construction. This article is a further exploration of the latter position. It looks at the way identities are constructed, and renegotiated, at the everyday level, by ordinary people, by illustrating the competition between Russian and Ukrainian languages in Odessa, a Ukrainian city on the Black sea, to look at the synergy generated by the competition between local and national narratives.

scholarly journals The Restitution of the Past: Autofictional Memory in El azul de las abejas by Laura Alcoba

Anclajes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-166
Author(s):  
Enzo Matías Menestrina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
In Transit ◽  
Literary Experience

The construction of identity in contemporary literature of the self has become a recurring fact in recent years. The limits that blur autofictions, where hazy boundaries separate the real from the fictitious, allow for life experiences to become diluted within the literary experience. Within the context of exile, all forms of identity construction are placed “in transit”: a learning process that involves an adaptation to a new territory and a new language. The second volume in Laura Alcoba’s trilogy, El azul de las abejas (2014 [2013]), shows how the exiled subject’s identity is constructed as a result of the changes arising from linguistic configuration and learning.

Identity Construction through Theatrical Community Practice

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 364-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy C. Hammock
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Dating Violence ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
The Social

Despite the longstanding use of theatrical techniques in community social work practice, the role of theater in the construction of identity is understudied in the social work literature. Drawing on over 100 hours of observation and 22 in-depth interviews with members of a theatrical community education troupe for youth, I describe how participation as performers in a play to prevent dating violence constructed youths’ identities as survivors of violence. Findings reveal that the process of identity construction through theatrical community practice occurred in three overlapping phases: first, learning the language to name the identity; next, embodying a character experiencing dating violence; and third, publicly claiming the identity in group interaction with audience members. Based on these findings, I draw implications for community social work practice with youth.

Construction of identity and the rhetoric of lying in Romanian political discourse

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-44
Author(s):  
Liliana Hoinărescu
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Leader ◽  
Negative Image ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Imagination ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

Starting from the pragmatic descriptions of lying and the most influential theories concerning social identity, this paper explores, on the basis of authentic examples, the relationship between identity construction and the rhetoric of lying in Romanian political discourse. We are interested in presenting, on the one hand, the strategies used to denounce a political leader as a liar and to fix this negative image in the collective imagination and, on the other hand, the strategy used by the politician to refute these accusations and rebuild his credibility ethos. Through this analysis, the paper also addresses the questions of the social and moral implications of lying in Romanian public space.

Flight attendant identity construction in inflight incident reports

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-29
Author(s):  
Barbara Clark
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Flight Safety ◽  
Flight Attendant ◽  
Commercial Aviation ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Incident Reports ◽  
Discursive Constructions

This article explores the discursive construction of a professional flight attendant (FA) identity (Bucholtz and Hall 2004) in a corpus of reports written by FAs and voluntarily submitted to a US government agency. The article argues that writing and submission of the reports by FAs can be seen as a performative act, which heightens aviation institutional ideologies whilst foregrounding safety-related practices. Moreover, the narratives make frequent use of the intersubjective relation of adequation and distinction (i.e., “us and them”) in their situated construction of identity, with FAs excluding pilots from discursive constructions of the inflight crew. This distancing of pilots is counter to the “team” ideology in commercial aviation upon which much flight safety is predicated.

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