| dc.creator | Merino Dickinson, María | |
| dc.creator | Tileaga, Cristian | |
| dc.date | 2011 | |
| dc.date | 2021-04-30T16:32:58Z | |
| dc.date | 2021-04-30T16:32:58Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-14T22:05:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-06-14T22:05:08Z | |
| dc.identifier | DISCOURSE & SOCIETY,Vol.22,86-101,2011 | |
| dc.identifier | http://repositoriodigital.uct.cl/handle/10925/2967 | |
| dc.identifier | 10.1177/0957926510382834 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/3300161 | |
| dc.description | The present article intends to examine how ethnic minority group members account for their ethnic identity as part of a series of interviews with young Mapuches on what it means to be Mapuche in contemporary Chilean society. The focus is on the actual accomplishment and display of ethnic self-definition and group identification. We draw on insights from discursive psychology to explore some features of common-sense practical reasoning that ethnic minority group members use to negotiate, self-ascribe or resist a particular sense of identity, and to produce observable and reportable identities. We have a particular interest in illustrating how ethnic self-definition can be seen as the contingent outcome of a practical and interpretive issue for members of society, with a special focus on how ethnic minority identity is constructed through the flexible use of group-defining attributes and characteristics, categories and common-sense categorial knowledge. We suggest that understanding the complex significance and meaning of ethnic self-definition for minority group members is dependent on engaging closely with its occasioned context of production and treating social identities as a feature of how people describe themselves. It is argued that this view of ethnic minority self-definition as a practical and interpretive issue and as a discursive product in action can provide a further contribution to literature of both discursive and intercultural studies of ethnic identification of minority groups, intercultural and interethnic relations. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD | |
| dc.source | DISCOURSE & SOCIETY | |
| dc.subject | Chile | |
| dc.subject | discursive psychology | |
| dc.subject | ethnic minority | |
| dc.subject | ethnic self-definition | |
| dc.subject | Mapuche | |
| dc.subject | social identities | |
| dc.title | The construction of ethnic minority identity: A discursive psychological approach to ethnic self-definition in action | |
| dc.type | Article | |
