Plural Identities Research Articles

Identity and heritage language learning: a case study of two mixed-heritage Korean university students in New Zealand

Abstract This narrative case study examines the identity development of two mixed-heritage (Korean/White and Korean/Japanese) university students in relation to Korean as a heritage language (HL) in New Zealand. The narratives of the two participants (Mia and Hannah) revealed that they grew up with different levels of exposure to the HL, which impacted their HL proficiency, and experienced different struggles with identity construction. While Mia’s White appearance helped her explore multiple ethnic/cultural identities, Hannah was deemed completely non-White by White New Zealanders, assigned a minority “Asian” identity, and subjected to racial discrimination. The dominant group’s confusion about intra-race mixedness and perceptions of Hannah as non-mixed complicated her situation. Hannah had little access to a majority heritage (New Zealander) identity, but also found her specific heritage identities occluded by an imposed single (“Asian”) identity. Nonetheless, on entering university both participants showed a strong desire to embrace their Koreanness through HL education or socialization with coethnic peers. HL learning played a crucial role in their construction of mixed-heritage identity; for Mia, the HL was valuable social capital, while for Hannah, the HL was a means of claiming her ethnic identity. This study highlights the complexity and plurality of mixed-heritage identities and offers implications for educators.

What graffiti arts and tags tell us about urban identity in Nouméa (New Caledonia)

AbstractThis article aims to describe and analyse graffiti arts and tags in the city of Nouméa, the capital of New Caledonia, a multicultural and multilingual city which is home to people who have moved from many different areas of New Caledonia and other countries of the South Pacific. I aim to understand how the citizens of Nouméa use graffiti and tags to construct their plural identities and identify themselves as Nouméens, as residents of Nouméan suburbs, and as people from other regions, with continued attachment and identification to these areas (tribal villages, islands, countries) of origin. How do they express these multiple senses of belonging? Which visual symbols, words, linguistic codes and norms do they use? How can this literacy help younger generations simultaneously reclaim their urban spaces (‘I'm from here and elsewhere’, ‘I have my place in this city!’) and assert their Oceanic identities?

The Role of National Identity Salience for Drawbacks of Boundary Spanning Across National Cultures

Research on boundary spanning has highlighted its detrimental effect for boundary spanners themselves. However, in particular, the underlying mechanism through which employees’ boundary spanning affects their role overload remains largely unexplored. Building upon identity theory, we investigate the role of employees’ national identity salience in explaining the relationship between boundary spanning across national cultures and role overload. For this purpose, we conducted an experience sampling study and applied multilevel modeling to test our hypothesized moderated mediation model based on 561 observations from 104 individuals working in multinational contexts. Our findings show that the detrimental effect of boundary spanning across national cultures on role overload is mediated by employees’ national identity salience. Furthermore, our results reveal that this indirect effect is contingent on the boundary spanners’ national identity plurality such that this effect is more detrimental for individuals with high national identity plurality than for individuals with low national identity plurality. These findings have valuable implications for both boundary-spanning and multiculturalism research.

Musique du Laos, une identité plurielle : tradition, nationalisme et patrimonialisation

« Tradition, nationalisme et patrimonialisation » évoquent trois contextes de jeu aux pratiques musicales bien vivantes. Au Laos, l’institutionnalisation de la musique va de pair avec un processus de création d’une musique nationale et l’encadrement de sa transmission. Celle-ci reprend comme emblème le khène lao (l’orgue à bouche en radeau très populaire joué par la majorité lao) avec une uniformisation de son langage musical et de ses usages. Cependant nous observons que la diversité des pratiques perdure et traverse les politiques culturelles, le khène rejoignant alors les listes représentatives du patrimoine culturel immatériel de l’humanité à l’Unesco en 2017-2018. Cet article propose d’aborder les mutations musicales au cœur de l’institutionnalisation, à travers la question des traditions réinventées au service de la nation. Quelle identité musicale sera recherchée dans ce contexte particulier ? Quelles seront les transformations de l’organisation musicale au niveau du matériel musical lui-même mais aussi au niveau de l’organisation sociale de la scène musicale ? Quels choix seront arbitrés quant aux éléments de transmission ? Quel pouvoir prêtera-t-on à la spectacularisation ? L’actualité de la récente inscription du khène à l’Unesco va participer peu à peu à la redéfinition des contours de ces traditions, du rôle de cet instrument et du cadre même des pratiques avec toujours une certaine institutionnalisation de la tradition. Quelles politiques culturelles seront choisies afin d’influencer ce processus de patrimonialisation voulu, mais comment devront-elles également s’adapter à ses contraintes ?

Collective identities beyond homogenisation: implications for justice and education

ABSTRACT In this article, I highlight what Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s (re)conceptualisation of the plurality within identities implies for justice and education. Laclau and Mouffe (re)theorise the plurality of identities by framing and understanding identities within the wider theoretical context of discourse analysis and radical Democracy. I argue that the significance of this specific (re)theorisation of the plurality within identities for justice and education has not yet been tackled by the related educational-philosophical scholarship, not even by that which focuses on Laclau and Mouffe. As a first step, I provide a brief overview of Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory and their approach to Democracy. Then, I show that, in their wider framework, one of the things that meaningfully connect discourse theory with radical Democracy is the theorisation of the plurality within identities. Finally, I suggest that acknowledging the plurality within any identity may offer important tools for expanding the scope of educational justice and for promoting justice in education. Amongst other things, by theoretically recognising the plurality and multi-dimensionality of collective identities, we obtain better insight into the pitfalls of homogenising identities and of cultivating reductive outlooks on identities in and through education, and encourage students’ critical thinking and self-reflective stances toward subjectivities.

Ukraine's Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1911–2011

Ukraine's Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1911–2011

STRATEGIES TO BECOME AN EXCELLENT PROFESSIONAL IN THE BURNOUT SOCIETY

This manuscript discusses some methodologies for achieving professional practice in the 21st century. Whether in the medical, pharmacological, educational, environmental or even technological areas, we have seen that Professionalization has been effective for the formation and respect for plural identities. In this sense, the objective of this paper is to discuss Strategies to become an excellent professional in the burnout society (CHUL-HAN, 2019), in which we start from the method to emotional balance as support. During the structuring and functionality of the subject, it is necessary to recognize its limitations and performance, hence the need to systematize the evidence on the implications and benefits of professionalization, given the entire configuration of its implementation in Brazil. This is a bibliographical and documental research, of an interpretative qualitative nature. With regard to the conditions for the effectiveness of a good professional performance, a mapping of verification of the subjects' practice becomes effective, in which institutional actions arising from/funded by educational policies that are linked to reports and to the researches. Our results pointed to the fact that many criteria need to be rethought and put into practice, including reformulations about leisure and personal satisfaction in the midst of the hyper-demanding of modern times.

Looking for Global Mormonism

Looking for Global Mormonism

"I am--I am a Chinese": The Death of Plural Identities in Mrs. Spring Fragrance

Amidst the ubiquitous racist discourse of the 19th century, Sui Sin Far emerged as a pioneering Asian American writer, dedicating her life to writing fiction, essays, and journalistic articles that combatted anti-Chinese sentiment. Situated at the complex nexus of racial, religious, and socio-economic tensions, her short story collection Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912) illustrate the collision between Chinese efforts to preserve their cultural traditions and Western assimilatory forces. While few scholars have commented on the role of children in Mrs. Spring Fragrance, this essay draws attention to that neglected subject, arguing that Sui Sin Far represents children as malleable, organic sites for anti-Chinese authorities to reinforce constructions of singular identity. Within a nation that holds no place for the existence of the “un-American,” how do the malleable bodies of children fall victim to singularity? Coupled with Amartya Sen’s identity theory, this essay features the deconstruction of three short stories—“In the Land of the Free,” “Pat and Pan,” and “The Wavering Image”—and its characters’ complex grappling with divergent versus singular affiliations.

Multilingual teacher training in South Tyrol: strategies for effective linguistic input with young learners

ABSTRACT Purpose: Attempts to cultivate a multilingual mindset in education in South Tyrol find an obstacle in educational norms, structures and policies that divide students into linguistically distinct schools based on their self-identified main language. Education in the region is administered through three separate educational authorities – German-speaking, Italian-speaking, Ladin-speaking – and teachers are prepared for service in one of these based on their own declared linguistic identification. Plural identities and translingual interaction do not flourish in this context where language separation is the norm. This paper begins with an overview of the educational policy of language separation in South Tyrol and its impact on the language achievement of its students. It then addresses how the Free University of Bolzano has responded to the need for improved language competences through teacher training for multilingual schools in the Province of Bolzano.Design: The paper presents the preliminary results of a small-scale study with in-service preschool teachers through an action research cycle in which classroom observations and a language input observation scheme are used to quantitively measure the quality of teachers' language input in second-language instruction in German and English, and provide formative feedback for improvement in teaching practice.Findings and Value: The expected outcomes of the study are threefold: (1) improving input and corrective feedback strategies of language teachers; (2) raising language awareness among teachers participating in peer observation; (3) empowering the emergence of language rich episodes through effective planning of interactive lessons in second/foreign language teaching. The study contributes to an understanding of what makes teachers' corrective feedback strategies in preschool settings effective in rendering input comprehensible for young learners, thus assisting language appropriation processes.

Reconstructing Dalit Masculinities: A Study of Select Dalit Autobiographies

The study of masculinities in India has largely been confined to the analysis and understanding of the upper caste hegemonic masculinity and complicit masculinity, with respect to emphasised femininity. The issue of Dalit masculinities has been subsumed in the larger discourse of South Asian masculinity. The present study intends to address this gap by delving into the nuances of Dalit masculinities through a detailed analysis of Aravind Mālagatti’s Government Brahmana and Baby Kamble’s The Prisons We Broke. The study would employ the categories of masculinities enunciated by Connell, while using a post-structuralist lens to question their absoluteness. In the process, the study would challenge the monolith of masculinity in general and Dalit masculinity in particular, which instead of being rigid and irrevocable has a plural and fluid identity.

Populism in the XXI Century in Brazil: A Dangerous Ambiguity

In this paper, I hope to shed light on the social and institutional transformation processes in Brazil in the 21st century, contrasting what can be understood as two populist waves. The first is the one led by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as a left-wing leader whose government has been internationally recognized for implementing distributive economic policies (inclusion of the poorest majority) and inclusive social policies (inclusion of racial and sexual minorities). The second is the right-wing wave led by Jair Bolsonaro, internationally recognized, but rather for embracing a discourse contrary to the inclusive practices adopted by their predecessor. Thus, the question I want to answer is: How can the same concept fit into such different phenomena? My hypothesis is that we are facing two patterns of representative relations. An inclusive one that aims to expand the number of groups that can be properly represented within the political collectivity, increasing its pluralism, and an exclusive one that aims to restrict them, shortening the plurality of groups and identities that forms the people. In both, the theme of racial and sexual minorities becomes a priority. Through this discussion, I want to emphasize the substantive and existential quality of the differences between these two representative patterns that are sometimes neglected or reduced by those who use the concept of populism to attribute some kind of symmetry or ideological convergence between them.

Problematizing identities and differences: notes post-modern, “(pos)critical” and post-structuralist the school and the curriculum

This article is based on a correlation of bibliographic sources under a qualitative approach, influenced by postmodern society and poststructuralist discussions of knowledge in their descriptions and analyses. Concepts and effects of identities and differences are discussed, as well as their possible conformations in the postmodern school and in the “(post)critical” and poststructuralist curriculum. It is concluded that in post-modernity, the subject assumes different identities from different influences, and the school is an important place for the problematization and construction of this movement, including inside the power relations towards difference. A "(post)critical" curriculum is defended, which does not oppose critical pedagogies and post-critical pedagogies, nor constrain their possible approaches and potential against hegemonic, fighting against social injustices and fostering (trans)formations and/or pluralization of identities . Furthermore, in this curriculum, in addition to broadly considering postmodern issues, post-structuralist issues are also considered, especially with regard to schools and the curriculum itself as practices of meaning and representation.

Сторителлинг и децентрализация идентичности в цифровой среде

This article is devoted to the consideration of such a sphere of modern reality as the representation of a person in the digital environment through the statement. The study analyzes the process, mechanisms and ways of representation through storytelling. The historical aspect appears as an integral part of the exposure of the individual's attitude to the inner and surrounding reality, which is transmitted not only in the form of a reflexive monologue, but also in the form of an installation, an opinion, and a look. The author notes the multi-level use of storytelling in the context of social space and in building digital identity. The work defines the philosophical and methodological foundations of the study, describes in detail the provisions of fragmentation and plurality of digital identity. The content of the article indicates the forms of development of storytelling as a communication technology, substantiates the main forms of influence on the formation of identity and its broadcasting in the digital surroundings. The article shows how transmedia and cross-platform play the role of connective tissue for overcoming the fragmentation of transmitted meanings. Thus, the consistency in the formation of a single image is maintained. It also takes into account the problem of technological alienation and the ways to overcome it, one of which is storytelling. The involvement of this communication technology and self-presentation appears to be an essential element for the socio-cultural analysis of digital reality and the development of a new problem field associated with the significance of the digital history of the individual.

WRITING MULTIFACETED AND PLURAL IDENTITY (FRANCO-IRANIAN) AND THE CONCEPT OF WOMEN'S LIBERATION IN" MARX AND THE DOLL'' OF MARYAM MADJIDI

It is nice to open up to other culture but it is unfortunate that we are uprooted from our cuture.Maryam Madjidi, Iranian writer, she had to leave iran, her home with her family to live in France, to escape from tyranny that prevailed at this time. Maryam the child, suffered from isolation and living in a strange country using different langage and culture of the Iranian culture and in a struggle between multiple ideas, she has to be forced to live with more than one identity. To forget her pain, Maryam find in writing the only way to be free. Our work is based on two parts. To study this novel "Marx And The Doll" , we focus through this study on the impact of internal conflict and plural identity and writing multifaceted with the writer. Also we care about highlighting on some sustainable development axes about women's liberation and reclaiming her rights to explain the different customs and traditions towards women in Iran from the period of Iranian revolution.‎

Critiquing imaginaries of ‘the public’ in UK dialogue around animal research: Insights from the Mass Observation Project

With an established history of controversy in the UK, the use of animals in science continues to generate significant socio-ethical discussion. Here, the figure of ‘the public’ plays a key role. However, dominant imaginaries of ‘the public’ have significant methodological and ethical problems. Examining these, this paper critiques three ways in which ‘the public’ is currently constructed in relation to animal research; namely as un- or mis-informed; homogenous; and holding fixed and extractable views. In considering an alternative to such imaginaries, we turn to the Mass Observation Project (MOP), a national life-writing project in the UK. In its efforts to generate writing which is typically reflexive, its recognition of the plurality and performativity of identity, and embrace of knowledge as situated yet fluid, the MOP offers lessons for approaching views towards animal research and the role of publics in dialogue around the practice. In considering the MOP, we underline the need to acknowledge the role of method in shaping both what publics are able to articulate, and which positions they are able to articulate from. Finally, we stress the need for future dialogue around animal research to involve publics beyond one-way measurements of ‘public opinion’ and instead work to foster a reciprocity which enables them to act as collaborators in and coproducers of animal research policy, practice, and dialogue.

Déconstruction du traumatisme et reconstruction dans le pluriel des particuliers dans La Maison des épices (2014) de Nafissatou Dia Diouf

Nafissatou Dia Diouf situates her novel, La Maison des épices (2014), in a former slave and spice counter of the same name, located in Mbour, Senegal, which has been transformed into a modern mental health center. Séga, the twenty-year-old son of Docteur Yérim Tall, was brought to the Maison des épices by his father, a psychoanalyst in charge of his own son’s treatment. Séga suffers from amnesia and is unbalanced and decentered following the death of his French mother Pauline in a plane crash which he survived. This paper examines Séga’s journey as he navigates and negotiates plural identities (Serge T… Louis… Séga) in search of his true lost identity. The mix of modern and traditional therapies at the Maison des épices triggers Séga’s re-centering and rebalancing. His plural identities take on a much bigger scope, becoming the sign of an enlarged and plural “Sénégalité,” because in addition to his re-rooting in the Serer hinterland of central Senegal (thanks in part to the use of a traditional psychic Wolof healing ceremony, the ndëpp), he is re-anchored by extension in mother-earth (Africa). The epigraphs prefacing each of the novel’s chapters anticipate the rehabilitation and return of the African part of Séga.

The Renunciation of One’s Nationality of Origin and European Union Citizenship: is it Compatible with Spain’s Dual Nationality System?

As a basic principle of international law, the ways of the different modes of nationality acquisition, recovery and loss is a matter falling under the jurisdiction of sovereign nations. However, as with other issues, relatively unrestricted intra-EU mobility rules have spawned a debate on the compatibility between national regulations and the demands of the current European status civitatis. In this study, considering the increasingly common factual and legal phenomenon of plurinationality, we will question the existing requirement in some systems of nationality law (among them Spain’s) for one to expressly renounce their nationality of origin when aspiring to be naturalized through residence in another Member State. In the current stage of the development of European integration process, this demand for renunciation becomes an unsustainable demand. In fact, avoid the legal recognition and enjoyment of two European nationality obstructs the full respect for own personal and plural identity as European citizenship. Implementing the procedures towards a paradigm shift are as needed as possible, which is explored in this study.

A HOLISTIC VIEW OF POST OFFICE BUILDINGS IN ANKARA'S CHANGING FACE

Communication network centre in Istanbul during the Imperial period, moved to capital Ankara thanks to establishment of T.B.M.M. and Republic of Turkey. In this study, from Empire to Republic of Turkey's modernization process, in the fields of reflection on architecture and urbanism is explored through the Ankara post office building in Ulus. Aim: The change and transformation of the post office buildings built in Ulus is handled from a holistic perspective without ignoring the multi-layered, changing and diversifying plural identities of the historical environment. Method: Based on literature and archive scanning, city plans, photographs and postcards are used as urban memory tools. These inventories allow visual, spatial and relational analysis to be made in defining the three post office buildings and their surroundings. Results: With this approach, which is discussed in the study, the breaking points that define the change and transformation processes of the post office buildings have been determined. The effects of the intangible and tangible qualities of the post office buildings and their surroundings on the spatial identity of the historical environment were determined. Conclusion: In the study, it has been observed that the structural losses experienced due to integrity negatively affect the continuity of the historical environment.

Conceptual foundations of organizational structure: re-structuring of women's health services

PurposeResearchers often debate health service structure. Understanding of the practical implications of this debate is often limited by researchers' neglect to integrate participants' views on structural options with discourses those views represent. As a case study, this paper aims to discern the extent to which and how conceptual underpinnings of stakeholder views on women's health contextualize different positions in the debate over the ideal structure of health services.Design/methodology/approachThe researchers chose a self-standing, comprehensive women's health service facing the prospect of being dispersed into “mainstream” health services. The researchers gathered perspectives of 53 professional and consumer stakeholders in ten focus groups and seven semi-structured interviews, analyzed through inductive thematic analysis.Findings“Women's marginalization” was the core theme of the debate over structure. The authors found clear patterns between views on the function of women's health services, women's health needs, ideal client group, ideal health service structure and particular feminist discourses. The desire to re-organize services into separate mainstream units reflected a liberal feminist discourse, conceiving marginalization as explicit demonstration of its effects, such as domestic abuse. The desire to maintain a comprehensive women's health service variously reflected post-structural feminism's emphasis on plurality of identities, and a radical feminist discourse, holding that womanhood itself constituted a category of marginalization – that is, merely being at risk of unmet health needs.Originality/valueAs a contribution to health organizational theory, the paper shows that the discernment of discursive underpinnings of particular stakeholder views can clarify options for the structure of health services.