Body doubles: the performance of Basqueness by Carmelo Gómez and Silvia Munt

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Stone
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
National Identities ◽  
The Creation

This chapter examines the re-construction of regional and national identities through acting. In doing so, it dissects the performances of Carmelo Gómez and Silvia Munt, two actors made famous for their multiple and iconic Basque roles. By closely examining their performances, the chapter argues that the actors’ false identities articulate a Basqueness that is at once desirable and desiring, fraught with unattainability; that is, the creation of Basque archetypes by non-Basque actors may ultimately render nonexistent whatever potential promise or threat they contain. Going against the presumption that an actor may be able to breach the gap between his or her personal identity and that of the character, the chapter argues instead that their performances will always be inauthentic, that audiences assume this fact, and that this shades cinematic acting in very important ways.

scholarly journals Developmental Interplay Between Ethnic, National, and Personal Identity in Immigrant Adolescents

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanos Mastrotheodoros ◽  
Olga Kornienko ◽  
Adriana Umana-Taylor ◽  
Frosso Motti-Stefanidi
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Developmental Task ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Identity Exploration ◽  
Immigrant Adolescents ◽  
Identity Commitment ◽  
Limited Support

Developing a personal identity is a core developmental task for all adolescents. Immigrant adolescents need to integrate the meaning that their belonging to their ethnic group and the receiving nation has for them into their personal identity. The purpose of this study was to examine the longitudinal interplay between personal, ethnic, and national identities of a middle school sample of immigrant youth (N = 765, Mage¬ = 12.7 years, SD = 0.6 at T1; 46% girls) enrolled in Greek schools. Data were collected in three waves with repeated measures. To test the link between these identities, two trivariate Cross-Lagged Panel Models were ran, one examining identity exploration and the other examining identity commitment. The results revealed robust within time positive links between ethnic, national and personal identities for both exploration and commitment at all three time-points. There was some evidence that ethnic and national identities were negatively linked longitudinally, and limited support for longitudinal associations between these domains and personal identity. Follow-up analyses suggest that these processes may be specific to second generation youth and that findings may differ by ethnic background. Finally, the findings that emerged are discussed with attention to the socio-political climate in the receiving nation.

Brotherly Love

2020 ◽  
pp. 91-111
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Zanoni
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Italian Language ◽  
Ethnic Press ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Creation

This chapter argues that Italian migrants in Argentina employed Italian-language newspapers to construct gendered and racialized constructions of familial love between Italians and Argentines as “brotherly people” during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These everyday articulations of emotions and love in the ethnic press, the chapter contends, were just as important to the creation of international allegiances and national identities as were the more formal decisions made by diplomats and statesmen. Newspapers like La Patria degli Italiani depicted foreign relations between Italy and Argentina as family relations—as relations between racially similar “Latin brothers”—to justify male-predominate migration, to promote favorable attitudes toward Italy and its migrants, and to rebuke unbrotherly destinations like the United States.

The Aspirational Labor of an Academic

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke Erin Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
Ivory Tower ◽  
Work Output ◽  
Striking Resemblance ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation

This concluding chapter explains how the ideologies and social practices propelling the social media sphere bear a striking resemblance to contemporary academe. With its staid, ivory tower facade, the academy might seem far removed from the creative industries, a cluster of professions marked by an aura of bohemian cool. But it is much less of a conceptual leap to understand the creation and dissemination of knowledge as a form of cultural work. And many of the same venerated ideals—autonomy, flexibility, the perennial quest to “do what one loves”—seem to animate workers in both arenas. Indeed, academia is unique among professions that fuse the personal identity of their workers so intimately with the work output, which might well be said of the creative industries.

Language Strategists: Redefining Political Frontiers on the Basis of Linguistic Choices

1979 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Weinstein
Keyword(s):  
National Identities ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ethnic Movements

The decision to use and develop a low-status language in translations and creative works is often based on a desire to provide symbols that will assist the efforts of political leaders to challenge existing national and ethnic frontiers and to create new groups loyal to different institutions. New frontiers alter the relationships between peoples and also affect patterns of access to power and wealth within a group. Writers, translators, dictionary makers, and other literary figures who innovate for this reason should be called “language strategists.” Although primarily moved by a creative and artistic spirit, these persons are often intimately associated with national and ethnic movements because they share the interests of the political elites who lead them. This conscious or unconscious alliance is essential in the creation of ethnic and national identities.

scholarly journals Untitled

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 36-41
Author(s):  
Ana Maria Anghelea
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Maastricht Treaty ◽  
National Identities ◽  
European Identity ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Potential Threat ◽  
Member States ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Eu

When at the end of the 1980s the EU launched a number of policies aimed to creating a European identity, the member states responded by incorporating into the Maastricht Treaty a clause stating that the European Union should respect the member states’ respective national identities (article F, point1). This reaction, along with the introduction of principle of subsidiary and the rejection of the word “federal”, revealed that many member states considered the creation of a European identity as a potential threat to their own national identities and their citizen’s national loyalties (Hojelid, 2001).

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