Abstract
ABSTRACTThis paper introduces the concept of “double estrangement”. Drawing on a large qualitative dataset it will argue that young migrant group boys in Dublin’s north inner city suffer from a break with their embodied selves as they are pushed between habitual and reflective action. The dual elements of “double estrangement” will be outlined, firstly, through the contention that visible difference and dispositions of the body mark minority boys out as not belonging within peer exchanges in three primary schools. Secondly, by arguing this has the effect of heightening a boy’s self-consciousness of their body as an object of value estranging them from their habitual embodied being.
Highlights
It is difficult to directly deal with the material body in racial and ethnic studies
The difficulty is when trying to focus on the body there is a tendency to slip into linguistic analysis; discussions of the body inevitably lead to debates on how we discuss the body (Garratt 2016)
This paper focuses on the one difference which was present in minority boys ability to “just get on with it”, the tendency for them to reflect upon themselves and their actions
Summary
The difficulty is when trying to focus on the body there is a tendency to slip into linguistic analysis; discussions of the body inevitably lead to debates on how we discuss the body (Garratt 2016) This turn to language is justified by arguing it is false to distinguish the linguistic from the embodied (Butler 1990). The need to find a way to deal with the body emerged from a four-year qualitative study of young children’s experiences of diversity within north inner city Dublin, Republic of Ireland [hereafter Ireland] While this context has many implications for what is discussed, an in-depth analysis of the local and national context is the subject of another piece (Garratt forthcoming-b). Self-consciousness or constant reflection will be operationalized as an insidious effect of racism
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