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Please consider submitting an abstract for the panel we are having at the 2013 Imean conference: http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/cahe/research/bristolcentreforlinguistics/i-mean/conferencedetails.aspx
Deadline: 30.1!
Best, Fred
Identity and Language Conference, UWE, Bristol 18-20 April 2013
Title: Culture as an Excuse: Claiming, Attributing and Co-Constructing Identity
Co-convenors: Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki, Finland), [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, Julie Byrd Clark (Western University, Canada, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) & Regis Machart (Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
The old and tired concept of culture is omnipresent in our contemporary globalized societies. As such, for Breidenbach and Nyíri (2009), we “see culture everywhere” – we referring to people on the street, including decision makers and researchers. Yet social and human sciences now know that solid forms of social and anthropological culture (i.e. “daily culture” to put it simply) do not exist as such: they are the results of co-constructions, negotiations, questionings, but also representations, manipulations, instabilities, etc. (Hannerz, 1999; Wikan, 2002; Dervin, 2012). According to Martine Abdallah-Pretceille, this ontological characteristic of the word culture has long been ignored in research on the intercultural. This is what we would like to problematize in this panel with the expression “Culture as an excuse” and its relations to the process of ‘doing’ identity. The questions we ask are (amongst others): Who uses/‘does’ culture as an excuse, for whom, in what context(s), how and why? Who is entitled or entitles him/herself to use “culture” as an excuse? Who isn’t? Who or what incites/forces/motivates whom to do it? How are constructions of gender, race, religion, social class used in combination with culture as an excuse? What ideologies seem to hide behind the use of the word culture and what are the impacts of culture as an excuse? What does it tell us about power relations implicitly and explicitly? The panel is also interested in what could be called “folk analysis of culture as an excuse” or how in daily/media discourses people resist or criticize the fact that they (or others) use culture as an excuse. Our interest lays in interdisciplinary methodological innovations when trying to answer these questions. The contexts of study can include: education, mobility/migration, the use of digital technologies, international couplehood, etc.
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Fred Dervin
Department of Teacher Education
University of Helsinki, Finland
Website: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/dervin/
* Editor of the International Journal of Education for Diversities (http://blogs.helsinki.fi/ije4d-journal/)
New books (2013):
* Cocoon Communities (with Mari Korpela, CSP)
* Le concept de culture - Comprendre ses détournements et manipulations (L'Harmattan)
* Linguistics for Intercultural Education (with Tony Liddicoat, Benjamins)
Conferences:
• Chinese students, scholars and teachers (May 2013)
• Intercultural vs. Multicultural Education (August 2013)
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