Social Location and Identity Construction in Teacher Hiring Applications

2021 ◽  
pp. 104-113
Author(s):  
Zuhra E. Abawi
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social Location ◽  
Teacher Hiring

scholarly journals “I’M NOT AFRAID OF BEING CALLED A LOSER”: THE ISSUE OF AGENCY IN FINN’S IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN THE TELEVISION SERIES GLEE

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Social Location ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Identity And Agency ◽  
Double Movement ◽  
Do So ◽  
Glee Club

This article analyzes the television series Glee and discusses the ways in which Finn’s identity construction — and his irresolution — can be read counter-hegemonically as fostering political agency. In order to do so, I discuss the concepts of identity and agency and notions such as social location and identification while conducting a textual analysis of specific scenes that pertain to the first season of the series. The analysis highlights that the character’s experience with the Glee club seems to be important for the constant re-construction of his identity. Such reconstruction is always part of a double movement: Finn, as a postmodern subject, is overtly contradictory. While his identity construction can be considered transgressive, at times his actions are in fact very conservative. Finn’s identity construction seems to demonstrate the ways in which Glee can be considered an example of postmodern contingency while being inserted simultaneously within restraining hegemonic discourse.

New directions in evangelical Christianities

Theology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 122 (4) ◽  
pp. 267-275
Author(s):  
Dion Forster
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Social Location ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Political Realities ◽  
Christian Leaders

This article presents an analysis of some contemporary trends and developments in evangelical theologies and movements. This is of importance to members of Christian groups, Christian leaders and academics, since we have seen how forms of evangelicalism have shifted political realities, split historical denominations and altered global perspectives on Christianities. The article argues that contemporary trends and developments in evangelical theologies are mediated in relation to shifts in, and challenges to, social identity construction and the social location of evangelicals. This claim is illustrated by explicating some more notable examples of how evangelical theologies, and evangelical identities, operate in contemporary public life. It is shown that evangelical theologies have developed in relation to changes in views on gender identities, political identities, multiculturalism and religious diversity. These are relatable, in some ways, to the effects of globalization and the proliferation of social media. The article concludes with a discussion of two possible outcomes for evangelical theologies and evangelicalism.

Accent Policy and Accent Modification Enterprises as Potential Indicators of Intercultural Power Relations: A Call for an Updated Research Agenda

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brynne D. Ovalle ◽  
Rahul Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This article has two purposes: (a) to examine the relationship between intercultural power relations and the widespread practice of accent discrimination and (b) to underscore the ramifications of accent discrimination both for the individual and for global society as a whole. First, authors review social theory regarding language and group identity construction, and then go on to integrate more current studies linking accent bias to sociocultural variables. Authors discuss three examples of intercultural accent discrimination in order to illustrate how this link manifests itself in the broader context of international relations (i.e., how accent discrimination is generated in situations of unequal power) and, using a review of current research, assess the consequences of accent discrimination for the individual. Finally, the article highlights the impact that linguistic discrimination is having on linguistic diversity globally, partially using data from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and partially by offering a potential context for interpreting the emergence of practices that seek to reduce or modify speaker accents.

Personal agency disavowed: Identity construction in asexual women of color.

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aasha B. Foster ◽  
Austin Eklund ◽  
Melanie E. Brewster ◽  
Amelia D. Walker ◽  
Emma Candon
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Personal Agency

Achieving Collaborative Aims through Multiple Identity Construction: Managing a public inter-organizational collaboration

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Isidora Kourti
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Stability And Change ◽  
Multiple Identity ◽  
Organizational Collaboration

Although public inter-organizational collaborations can offer better public services, their management is a complex endeavour and they often fail. This paper explores identity construction as a key aspect that assists in managing successfully these collaborations. The study draws upon a longitudinal ethnographic study with a Greek public inter-organizational collaboration. The research illustrates that managers should encourage partners to construct collaborative and non-collaborative identities in order to achieve the collaboration aims. It also suggests that managers should seek both stability and change in the collaborative process and offers four collaborative patterns for the effective management of public inter-organizational collaborations.

Unreconciled Strivings of ‘Exilic Consciousness’: Critical Praxis of Resistance in Susan Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-120
Author(s):  
Ayman Abu-Shomar
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
Resistance Literature ◽  
Political Narratives ◽  
Arab Israeli Conflict

This article discusses how Susan Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin, its thematic concerns and aesthetics, are developed in tandem with the discourse of diaspora and exilic consciousness leading to critical praxis. It traces the interactions between exilic consciousness and identity construction in the context of resistance literature. These interactions exhibit the author's ability to be inside and outside discourses of struggle producing a model in which exile challenges bigoted struggles, hence the evolution of critical praxis. In the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict, Abulhawa represents another humanistic voice that resists dominant political narratives by dismantling their hegemonic power structure.

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