The construction of ethnic minority identity: A discursive psychological approach to ethnic self-definition in action

Merino Dickinson, María Eugenia; Tileaga, C.

The construction of ethnic minority identity: A discursive psychological approach to ethnic self-definition in action

dc.contributor.author	Merino Dickinson, María Eugenia
dc.contributor.author	Tileaga, C.
dc.date	2011
dc.date.accessioned	2012-02-08T17:22:46Z
dc.date.available	2012-02-08T17:22:46Z
dc.date.issued	2012-02-08
dc.description.abstract	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. © The Author(s) 2011.	es
dc.format	PDF	es
dc.identifier.citation	Discourse and Society, Vol. 22, Nº1, 86-101, 2011	es
dc.identifier.doi	10.1177/0957926510382834	es
dc.identifier.uri	https://repositoriodigital.uct.cl/handle/10925/598
dc.language.iso	en	es
dc.source	Discourse and Society	es
dc.subject	Análisis del discurso	es
dc.subject	Minorías étnicas	es
dc.subject	Mapuche	es
dc.subject	Identidad étnica	es
dc.title	The construction of ethnic minority identity: A discursive psychological approach to ethnic self-definition in action	es
dc.type	Artículo de Revista	es
uct.carrera	Licenciatura en Antropología	es
uct.carrera	Pedagogía Básica Intercultural en Contexto Mapuche	es
uct.carrera	Sociología	es
uct.catalogador	pop	es
uct.comunidad	Ciencias Sociales	es
uct.facultad	Facultad de Ciencias Sociales	es
uct.indizacion	ISI	es