Re-configuring East-West identities: cross-generational discourses in German and Polish border communities
Re-configuring East-West identities: cross-generational discourses in German and Polish border communities
This article takes its data from one of two sets of communities studied as part of a British ESRC project into discursive constructions of identity. In this paper we argue three interrelated points. Firstly, we show the ways in which different elicitation formats of interviewee responses foreground variable aspects in people's identification. Secondly, we show how similar elicitation methods produced different criss-crossings of identification which render summary generalisations about identities in these communities problematic. Thirdly, we highlight the fluid and often paradoxical nature of multiple identifications across the different layers with which people choose to engage.
identity, discourse, narrative, context, polish german border
63-82
Meinhof, Ulrike H.
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Galasinski, Dariusz
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2002
Meinhof, Ulrike H.
56befd2f-b46a-4f5a-9738-24920308a376
Galasinski, Dariusz
939bb7a8-43c4-4880-a4dd-136cac61952f
Meinhof, Ulrike H. and Galasinski, Dariusz
(2002)
Re-configuring East-West identities: cross-generational discourses in German and Polish border communities.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 28 (1), .
(doi:10.1080/13691830120103930).
Abstract
This article takes its data from one of two sets of communities studied as part of a British ESRC project into discursive constructions of identity. In this paper we argue three interrelated points. Firstly, we show the ways in which different elicitation formats of interviewee responses foreground variable aspects in people's identification. Secondly, we show how similar elicitation methods produced different criss-crossings of identification which render summary generalisations about identities in these communities problematic. Thirdly, we highlight the fluid and often paradoxical nature of multiple identifications across the different layers with which people choose to engage.
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Published date: 2002
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identity, discourse, narrative, context, polish german border
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/12326
ISSN: 1369-183X
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