Themes Of Identity Research Articles

The Spirit of Nationalism in Literature: A Case Study of Students in Yogyakarta

This research is an effort to investigate the understanding of prospective student teachers in the PGSD Study Program at "AS" Universities in Yogyakarta. The focus of the research is the understanding of nationalism and the implementation of literature as a medium of nationalism. This study used quantitative methods. Research data was conducted by conducting surveys and interviews. The survey was conducted using Google Forms media. Interviews were conducted with 30 students. The results showed that students at "U.S." colleges do not all understand national identity. Of the 30 respondents, there was 1 student who did not understand the identity of the nation. However, overall they have read many books on national identity. Students also agreed that the spirit of nationalism is an important factor that every citizen must have. In addition, students agree that the values of nationalism can be taught through literature. As a form of agreement about it, they have also implemented the practice of making poems with the theme of national identity as a representation of the spirit of nationalism. The novelty of this research is that there has been no previous research that investigates the understanding of nationalism for students, especially in the field of literature in the PGSD Study Program.

Лингвосемиотика философского дискурса: языковая личность Баруха Спинозы

The research aims to identify the general linguistic, general cultural and ethno-cultural features of the linguistic personality of the 17th-century Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza. The scientific novelty of the research lies in highlighting the peculiarities of discursive constructions of the Dutch thinker’s linguistic personality in terms of studying the linguosemiotic mechanisms of the functioning of special terms, both in the space of a complete utterance and at the level of the universal stock of philosophical language. One of the main epistemological aspects of the work is the elaboration of the problems of linguistic interpretation of personality as a semiotic whole and value, i.e. the questions of searching for the foundations of subjective or universal identity, which can be answered one way or another by referring to language. An important consideration of the study is the identification of correlations between the conceptual and epistemic dimensions of knowledge, in other words, between linguistic analysis and conceptual analysis of the text. The research findings showed the predominance of universal features in the Dutch thinker’s philosophical discourse and also made it possible to discover the information about elements of his worldview and mentality as a native speaker of a national language at the level of the linguistic personality. The data obtained allowed the researcher to identify the features of Spinoza’s linguistic personality that are relevant for modern ways of overcoming critical and stressful situations on the course to existential stabilisation of behavioural models of cognition and communication.

P092 Imagined Futures: How can digital storytelling empower young people with JIA to engage in ideas about health, wellbeing and transition

Abstract Background/Aims During February half-term 2022, seven young people with JIA ranging in age from 11 to 16 coalesced at the Unicorn Theatre in London to participate in a week-long series of workshops exploring filmmaking, digital storytelling, and health. Led by Creative Health PhD researcher Anna Woolf (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama), and Debbie Wilson, Young People’s Project Manager from JIA-at-NRAS, the facilitators engaged the young people in a series of digitally-led practices which allowed the young people to explore their lived experiences in a creatively-led group setting. Utilising TikTok methodologies (Pomerantz, 2021) the young people created and performed content that explored themes of identity and emerging self-hood. The project enabled young people’s understanding of their JIA to be explored in relation to their hopes and fears about their future health, self-management, and ideas about transition. Methods The approach included pre-project qualitative and quantitative surveys detailing young people’s attitudes and experiences to having JIA, semi-structured interviews with the young people and thematic qualitative analysis of filmed stories. Results Young people expressed that they had never met another young person with JIA or arthritis ever before despite several of them attending the same paediatric centres such as Great Ormond Street or the Evelina hospital in London. The project coalesced young people around their collective health conditions and the use of digital mediums made space for places of powerful solidarity between young people experiencing the same health problems. Conclusion Despite young people with JIA having good relationships generally with their doctors and support from their families, the work created by them in the project showed the researcher very clearly that they need much better peer support structures, help and understanding from other adults such as teachers, and in general, more understanding and empathy from the world at large about their lived experience. Utilising TikTok, filmmaking and online creative formats such as meme-making and online journaling, the young people were clearly engaged and adeptly expert at producing creative testimony and performance which illustrated their experiences of health. Assumptions such as believing that young people struggled with their patient-doctor relationships were replaced with a real understanding of the young people’s struggles, such as learning that teachers and other adults in the world are far more problematic, oftentimes labelling them as lazy or difficult for not participating in life in ways that their fully able-bodied peers do. The researcher also learnt much more about the effects of poor mental health that JIA engenders for young people with arthritis and reflected on the need for more creative peer-led spaces to explore this. Disclosure A. Woolf: None. D. Wilson: None.

Conceptualising the waves of Islamist radicalisation in the UK

ABSTRACT In recent years, there has been an unprecedented increase in interest in the study of radicalisation. To comprehend this phenomenon, numerous political science and sociological perspectives are emphasised to determine social movement conceptualisations. Using British Muslim youth as a case study, the goal of this article is to explore the themes of identity, resistance, racialisation, and mobilisation as antecedents to Islamist radicalisation. In other words, the few young Muslims who have turned to radicalism have done so due to fractures in their gendered sense of status and belonging at the local, national, and international levels. In this article, I conduct a theoretical and conceptual review of five distinct stages of Islamist radicalisation in the context of the United Kingdom, all of which are influenced by local, national, and international concerns. This discussion supports the argument that these waves of radicalism result from identity fragmentation in local communities and worsen as a result of international events. In the British context, the dangers of radicalism are determined by the intersections of local, global, and international events, or at the micro, meso, and macro levels, and these indicate the greatest risks linked to this phenomenon.

Autoethnography and Somatic Modes of Attention

Somatic autoethnography integrates a materialist perspective that positions a dance ethnographer’s personal history--ethnicity, race, class or national origin—with modes of attention that highlight the impact of perception. From a contemporary neuro-science perspective somatic autoethnography can be articulated as an embodied form of research in which an act of mimesis in learning a dance form in a specific cultural context engages the neuro structures of the ethnographer to evolve new states of embodied cognition and an integration of perception, context/place, memory and imagination. In phenomenological terms, ethnographers transform their experience of their ‘lived-body’ through an intensive engagement in which the body of the performer through imitation becomes the object of the learner’s subjective identity. This project considers this topic from a historically contextual perspective of the author’s personal experience across three dance forms and cultural locations—Middle Eastern Raqs el Sharqi, dance among the Azande of South Sudan, and Japanese Nihon Buyo.

Memory and Reconstruction of Identity in Arthur Miller's The Price

Memory is an area of study in many academic domains, including sociology, cultural studies, psychiatry, psychology, and literature. It is a significant subject of discussion regarding the human dynamism of identity. As Miller thinks that the past is a misty spot and mirrors it consequently in his drama, he merges the past with the present. He shows how the past is embedded in the presence of his characters. Therefore, for Miller, past experiences constitute the present crises of his characters. Considering these experiences, this paper examines the themes of traumatic memory and identity within the scope of post-memory theory on the familial and social level in Arthur Miller's play The Price (1968). The play demonstrates a unique issue on family, memory, and identity, particularly picturing family as a site for memory, and a fundamental mechanism of transgenerational trauma transmission. It reveals the interweaving of traumatic family memory in the production of individual identity.

Exploring Diasporic Identity and Cross-Cultural Conflict in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake and The Lowland: A Comparative Study

In Jhumpa Lahiri's novels The Namesake (2003) and The Lowland (2013), the author delves into the complexities of diasporic identity and cross-cultural conflict through the lives of her characters. Both novels explore themes of personal identity, displacement, and the effects of political and cultural forces on individual lives and relationships. The Namesake follows the life of Gogol Ganguli, a second-generation Indian American, as he navigates the challenges of dual cultural identity. Lahiri utilizes Gogol's unique name as a metaphor for his struggle with his Indian heritage and American upbringing, highlighting the tension between assimilation and cultural preservation. The novel emphasizes the importance of embracing one's cultural roots while also recognizing the complexities of maintaining multiple cultural identities. In The Lowland, Lahiri explores the lives of two brothers, Subhash and Udayan, and the woman who connects them, Gauri. Set against the backdrop of the Naxalite movement in India and the immigrant experience in the United States, the novel examines the challenges faced by immigrants as they navigate new cultural landscapes. Lahiri also explores the impact of political turmoil on personal relationships and individual identity, raising questions about the role of political activism and the costs of personal sacrifice. Both novels address the generational gap between immigrant parents and their American-born children, emphasizing the need for understanding and empathy in navigating complex family dynamics. Lahiri's exploration of cross-cultural conflict extends beyond the personal experiences of her characters to the broader context of Indian history and politics, underscoring the ways in which larger societal forces can influence individual lives. Ultimately, The Namesake and The Lowland serve as poignant reminders of the importance of understanding, empathy, and self-discovery in navigating the complexities of diasporic identity and cross-cultural conflict.

Exploring Identity and Belonging in the Context of Partition of 1947: A Social Identity Theory Analysis of 'Train to Pakistan' by Khushwant Singh

This study explores the theme of identity and belonging in Khushwant Singh’s novel, ‘Train to Pakistan’, by investigating how the characters develop their sense of identity and belonging within the socio-political context of the Partition of India in 1947. The study employs a qualitative research methodology, analyzing the novel through close reading and thematic analysis. The study applies the Social Identity Theory to examine the novel’s categorization, social comparison, and identification processes. The research reveals that religious, cultural, and national affiliations significantly influence the characters’ identities and sense of belonging. It highlights the complexities of identity construction during conflict and demonstrates that characters’ identities are subject to external categorizations. However, the study also observes the characters’ agency in negotiating their identities and challenging societal expectations. The study explores identity dynamics, emphasizing the importance of social and contextual factors in shaping individual and collective identities, particularly within historical and cultural narratives.

Exploring the concept of entrepreneurial identity in youth agripreneur program

ABSTRACT This study aims to evaluate the concept of entrepreneurial identity in the AgroBiz youth agripreneur program and the potential implications of agripreneurship in shaping the future of farming in Brunei. An exploratory study was applied to gain insight into agriculture students and course facilitators’ perceptions of agripreneurship training using focus group discussion to acquire comprehensive data. Thematic analysis was used to identify emerging agripreneurship and entrepreneurial identity themes. Research findings indicated that incorporating business-innovative practices into vocational agriculture training can instil young farmers with an entrepreneurial identity. The three critical issues addressed in the AgroBiz project: mindset, agribusiness, and agrotechnology, are considered essential components of manifesting the entrepreneurial identity. The research findings may not be comprehensive enough to evaluate the long-term contributions of AgroBiz at the industry level due to the small sample. Nevertheless, AgroBiz is a helpful instrument in nurturing change in the youth and the farming community.

Possible future selves in STEM: an epistemic network analysis of identity exploration in minoritized students and alumni

BackgroundSTEM minority participation programs have been widely implemented in higher education with the goal of diversifying the global STEM workforce. Informed by research highlighting the potential of targeted exploration of STEM roles and reflection on the self in relation to STEM (identity exploration), this work examines how engagement in a government funded STEM minority participation program shaped these processes in current students and program alumni.ResultsEpistemic network analysis (ENA) was used to visualize conceptual connections between identity themes that emerged from interviews with present and past program participants. Network models were developed for current students and alumni for cross-group comparisons. Differences were found in how participants at different stages of their careers enact and describe their identity exploration processes. Summative network models highlighted how students discussed action-taking (sometimes through participation in STEM minority program initiatives) as they explored less-certain possible future STEM roles, while alumni integrated more diverse and holistic facets of their identities when conceptualizing their futures. To close the interpretive loop, a qualitative interpretation of interview discourse was used to give context to network patterns.ConclusionsResults highlight the differences between novices’ and professionals’ conceptualizations of their future selves and illustrate how minoritized individuals describe their long-term patterns of identity exploration related to STEM majors and careers. Implications for future STEM identity research and practice, including higher education programming as a tool to support students’ STEM identity exploration processes, are discussed.

The Crisis of National Culture and Human Identity in the Context of Globalization

Abstract. National identity includes a complex set of competing models of representation that focus on different ideals and values. In the context of modern globalization, a coherent type of multiple identity is emerging, capable of combining universal principles of democracy with the basic values of local cultures. Largely, globalization has changed the mechanism of constructing subjective identity, abolished its boundaries and created a variety of forms of its representation. Globalization, caused by the change in the ways individuals identify events and phenomena, caused the inefficiency of social institutions, the ephemerality of cultural manifestations, provoked a crisis of meanings, and, consequently, a change in the basic paradigms of individual and society life.

COVID-19 pandemic and associated factors in pregnant women in urban Bangalore, South India: A qualitative analysis

IntroductionThe World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a pandemic in March 2020, and this was followed by a series of preventive measures that included social distancing, travel restrictions and lockdowns in India. Pregnancy is a vulnerable time, with several physical and psychological changes associated with it. The added burden of pandemic could lead to significant stress, and it would be helpful to understand the mitigating factors of stress in this population.ObjectivesThe objective of this study was to examine the mitigating factors associated with COVID-19 pandemic among pregnant women.MethodsThe study was conducted in an Urban Primary Health Center (UPHC) in Bangalore that provides maternity care to low-middle income population. Antenatal check-ups are conducted here daily. Pregnant women visiting the clinic for routine antenatal care were approached and informed consent was sought for an interview. 295 women consented to participate in the study. The qualitative interview was conducted in a quiet room. Open ended questions were used to understand the participants’ personal, familial, occupational, and social factors related to COVID-19. The transcripts of the interviews were manually coded for recurring themes by two research assistants. These were examined and similar or identical themes were grouped together. These were further analyzed, and themes were summarized.ResultsThe mean (SD) age of the participants was 24.9 (4.2) years, approximately half of the participants were in their first trimester and primiparous. The majority were high school educated and self-employed. 25% of the participants reported mild to moderate depressive symptoms assessed using PHQ-9. The most predominant theme among personal factors was negative emotions that included fear and anxiety. The uncertainty about the transmission and the lack of clarity about the causes during the pregnancy were the reasons for these fears. They reported that they found news and media more stressful. They reported that even though the lockdown restricted their movement, they enjoyed the time they spent with the family, especially their husbands. Most participants reported job loss, theirs and their husbands’ and had to encounter severe economic difficulties. However, the predominant theme was the social support that they received from family, friends, neighbors, and local governing bodies.ConclusionsSocial support was reported to be the most predominant factor that helped the pregnant women to cope with the problems presented during the pandemic. Social support, both instrumental and emotional were important mitigating factors for stress during the pandemic. Strengthening the social support system by support groups and community networking should be a crucial component in government- led initiatives as a factor that may promote resilience in difficult situations like the pandemic.Disclosure of InterestNone Declared

The Body Behind the Curtain: Performing Disability in Zemlinsky'sDer Zwerg

AbstractLike many modernist engagements with the theme of outsider identity, Alexander Zemlinsky's 1921 operaDer Zwerg(The Dwarf) finds its dramatic nexus in the disabled body. In opera, such bodies are not only (historically) texted but also (presently) performed, with modern stagings offering a form of mediation between the historical and contemporary. With reference to two productions ofDer Zwerg, this article unpicks aspects of the representation and performance of disability on the operatic stage. I first explore disability's simultaneous exaggeration and disappearance as a result of the problematic practice of ‘disability mimicry’. The effects of this practice and its proximity to issues of authenticity and embodiment are only made more tangible in the context of live performance, where attempts to embody disability's physicality are often sensationalised and unconvincing at best. However, disability can be, and is, represented in myriad ways. While disability mimicry can engender modes of perceiving disability from a voyeuristic perspective, these productions in fact make use of processes of ‘enfreakment’ to present disability through modes of theatrical production and aesthetic choice. This raises pertinent questions about why and by what means the disabled body is mobilised (or not) on the operatic stage, highlighting, moreover, disability's tendency to indicate meaning in registers beyond the body.

An evaluation of a multidimensional identity measurement instrument: The heritage language speaker identity tool (HLS‐IT)

AbstractThis mixed‐methods study explores the efficacy of a multidimensional identity measurement tool that aims to represent the diverse language experiences of heritage language learners (HLLs) and heritage language speakers (HLSs). Drawing on the thematic commonalities across 13 definitions of HLLs, a questionnaire was developed to capture age of acquisition, self‐reported proficiency level, home exposure, language maintenance efforts, and cultural and familial ties to the heritage community. Questionnaire data spanning HLSs (N = 135) of 41 heritage languages were submitted to K‐means cluster analysis to investigate identity‐based trends across respondents. Interviews (n = 10) and autobiographical essays (n = 4) from a subset of respondents from each resulting cluster were thematically analyzed and used to corroborate descriptive HLS profiles from cluster analysis results. Three HLS profiles emerged from the data set, and their defining characteristics (based on the five HLL identity themes) illustrate the complex interplay of language, culture, family, and education within the HLS population. Qualitative analysis of respondents’ perspectives highlights the challenges of quantitatively measuring inherently qualitative experiences. The study concludes with implications for how questionnaire‐based instruments derived from bottom‐up statistical analyses can be leveraged in future research, advancing the agendas of linguists and educators to better understand and support HLSs.

Creating Time for LGBT+ Disabled Youth: Co-production Outside Chrononormativity

This article explores how ‘chrononormative’ constructions of time shape research and offers an approach to co-production and research involvement that draws on insights from trans, queer, and disability studies. The article presents early reflections on an NIHR School for Social Care–funded research study, approved prior to but developed under the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, investigating personal support, sexuality, and gender in young disabled adults’ lives. This project has been supported by a Participatory Advisory Group (PAG) of LGBT+ young disabled adults and we reflect on how engagement with the PAG has shaped our understanding of debates around time and involvement in co-production discourse. Our engagement with trans, queer, and disability theory allows us to think about the constraints on time that such involvement has pushed against as we have sought to account for the diverse needs of the body-minds of the PAG in pandemic times. We suggest that this may speak to opening up the diversity and accessibility of co-production across other research contexts and intend this piece to encourage these conversations. The article thus offers a critical exploration of themes of time, embodiment, and identity in the way in which co-production is enacted in funded research.

Teaching, Inspiring, and Enriching: The Role of Studying Literature in Enhancing the Sense of Belonging and the Pride in the Arab National Identity among Young People

This paper aims to explore the role of studying literature in enhancing the values of belonging and promoting the sense of pride in the Arab national identity among young people. Literary texts have the power to deepen the national sense inside young men and women, urging them to love their homeland, adhere to their national identity, and feel proud of belonging to their nation. Throughout their literary works, writers address the youth everywhere, promoting their sense of home and raising their national consciousness. This can, for example, be seen in the major works written in both English Literature and Arabic Literature. In English Literature, for example, writers such as James Joyce, Gregory Burke, Robert Browning, and Maya Angelou place the theme of national identity at the heart of their works. In Arabic Literature, likewise, enhancing the sense of belonging and pride in national identity is a central topic in the literary works of Arab writers such as Nagib Mahfouz, Leila Buck, Mahmoud Darwish, Mustafa Balilah, and Suad Al-Sabah. The researchers reached the conclusion that the works written by these writers in both English Literature and Arabic Literature enhance young people's sense of belonging and pride in their national identity.

Risky (information) business: an informational risk research agenda

PurposeThe purpose of this conceptual paper is to suggest that the growing sociocultural theorisation of risk calls for a more robust research focus on the role that information and in particular, information literacy, plays in mediating hazards and danger.Design/methodology/approachStarting by tracing how information has been conceptualised in relation to risk through technoscientific, cognitive and sociocultural lenses, the paper then focuses on emerging sociocultural understandings of risk to present a research agenda for a renewed sociocultural exploration of how risk is shaped through the enactment of information literacy.FindingsThe paper identifies and examines how information literacy shapes four key aspects of risk, including risk perception, risk management, risk-taking and “at-risk” populations. These four aspects are further connected through broader themes of learning, identity, work and power, which form the basis of the sociocultural risk research agenda.Originality/valueThis paper is the first study bringing together the many understandings related to how risk is informed and establishes risk as a key area of interest within information literacy research.

Boosting stakeholders' intention to participate in socially responsible collective action in megaprojects: perspectives of mega water transfer projects in China

PurposeMegaprojects have large impact on the environment and stakeholders should take collective action to ensure that these projects are developed in a socially responsible manner. Hitherto, it is not known whether group and subjective norms and social identity could compel stakeholders to take socially responsible collective actions in megaprojects. The aim of this study is to design and test a model to boost stakeholders' intention to take socially responsible collective action in the context of mega water transfer projects in China.Design/methodology/approachA quasi-experimental causal research design was adopted to establish cause–effect relationships among the dependent variable (we-intention) and independent variables (subjective norms, group norms, social identity and desire). This study adopts the belief–desire–intention model and social influence theory to empirically investigate how to boost the stakeholders' intention to participate in socially responsible collective action. An online questionnaire survey was conducted and data was collected from 365 respondents who were involved in mega water transfer projects in China. The partial least squares structural equation modeling technique was employed to analyze the data.FindingsThe results from partial least squares analyses indicate that the presence of subjective norms, group norms and social identity (collectively known as social influence process) could increase stakeholders' intention to take socially responsible collective action. In addition, the desire to be socially responsible also boosts stakeholders' intention to take collective action. Desire partially mediates the relationship between social influence process and intention to take socially responsible collective action.Originality/valueThis study adds to existing knowledge by discovering social influence process as an antecedent to taking socially responsible collective action in megaprojects. Strong group norms and subjective norms could propel stakeholders to be more socially responsible. The study also adds to knowledge by discovering that stakeholders' desire to fulfill social responsibility also leads them to take concrete actions. Implications and recommendations are provided on how to manipulate different types of social influence processes to facilitate stakeholders to adopt socially responsible collective action in the process of managing megaprojects.

The "Situation" in Micronesia: The Rise of Behavioral Dispossession

In one of the largest ethnographies ever produced, American anthropologists subjected nearly the entire population of Micronesia to psychological testing. This battery of tests created databases to universalize patterns of economic behavior by collecting “aberrations” in rational thought. Perhaps ironically, the methods developed through Micronesian data experiments provided the formal tools to model corporate decision-making. In the process, economists created a new space of racialized capitalist expansion by producing raw behavioral data. I theorize these early forms of data dispossession as a violent procedure that creates a rift between old modes of subjective identity and new modes of production. My analysis of the weaponization of behavioral modeling—both bypassing the individual as a locus of economic value and dividing the common—sheds new light on the development of so-called data mining on contemporary online platforms.

Polemics, Literature, and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Mexico: A New World for the Republic of Letters

Polemics, Literature, and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Mexico: A New World for the Republic of Letters