Abstract
The subject of this research proposal concerns the gender representations of women in the border town of Goumenissa, a regional unit of Kilkis in Greece, as these representations are constructed on their speech. Goumenissa has been a meeting place of different origin communities, such as local, Pontiac and east Rumelia populations, after the Turco-Greek exchange of populations in Greek national history during the 1920s.The aim of this on-site research is to investigate and map out the status of the refugee and local women of Goumenissa, in years of turbulence and intensity. The research questions concern three basic thematic units: House working - Working outside, the house - Education/family constraints. What is their insight into family relationships, tradition, education and participation in production? How did they define themselves and were defined by others throughout the historical and social conditions? What kind of imprints did these conditions leave on them? How do they continue today? This on-site historical research was based on individual or group interviews and on professional filmmaking in the area of Goumenissa by the two educators Kiouzepi & Kavallari. The outcome-deliverable has been a historical documentary based on the primary original material coming from the women’s interviews that could be used as a multimodal material within an interdisciplinary approach in teaching social subjects. The theoretical axes of the research are the history of gaze, the cultural studies, the socio-semiotics and the expansion of sources in the local and oral historiography.
Highlights
About the geographical documentationThere are a lot of versions of the origin of the name Goumenissa
The research questions concern three basic thematic units: House working - Working outside, the house - Education/family constraints. What is their insight into family relationships, tradition, education and participation in production? How did they define themselves and were defined by others throughout the historical and social conditions? What kind of imprints did these conditions leave on them? How do they continue today? This on-site historical research was based on individual or group interviews and on professional filmmaking in the area of Goumenissa by the two educators Kiouzepi & Kavallari
The outcome-deliverable has been a historical documentary based on the primary original material coming from the women’s interviews that could be used as a multimodal material within an interdisciplinary approach in teaching social subjects
Summary
There are a lot of versions of the origin of the name Goumenissa. According to the local tradition, robbers hung the Abbot (Greek: Ηγνύκελνο - egoumenos) of the abbey, and the city's name, which means the place of Abbot derived from this. Homer gives the Paionian leader as a certain Pyraechmes; later on in the Iliad a second leader is mentioned, Asteropaeus son of Pelagon (Altikis, 1995). In this historical research we choose to produce a documentary using the social historiography methods. The specific stages are these of Pre-research, Material collection, Dekampage, Direction-Editing-Mix. The local research was carried out, with participatory observation, open discussions, semi-structured and guided interviews. A recording calendar, and the meetings of the research team was held, as a feedback evaluation in relation to the course of the survey.To achieve the final outcome, pictorial analysis and interpretation, material evaluation from a technical point of view, decisions on the selection of the final material included, its composition, the detection of appropriate music and sound investment were made. The novelty of this proposal concerns the virtualization of the produced multimodal digital text, which was designed, recorded, edited and attributed by the same research team
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