Karatsareas, P., Hadodo, M. J. and Ioannidou, E. 2024. Researching identities, authenticities, and institutions in minoritized settings: insights from diverse Greek-speaking communities. in: Hadodo, M. J., Karatsareas, P. and Ioannidou, E. (ed.) Greek in minoritized contexts: identities, authenticities, and institutions London Routledge.
| Chapter title | Researching identities, authenticities, and institutions in minoritized settings: insights from diverse Greek-speaking communities |
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| Authors | Karatsareas, P., Hadodo, M. J. and Ioannidou, E. |
| Editors | Hadodo, M. J., Karatsareas, P. and Ioannidou, E. |
| Abstract | Ongoing academic perspectives concerning identities have increasingly adopted critical approaches to examining how social differentiation is achieved (c.f., Heller, Pietikäinen & Pujolar, 2017). Focusing on intersections of personal experiences with language and broader sociocultural practices allows for a more nuanced understanding of how language is recruited by individuals and collectivities alike. As Babel (2018), Bucholtz & Hall (2005), Eckert (2012) and many others have shown, these more dynamic, processual approaches to language result in individuals negotiating their own agency in contexts with external pressures from hegemons (Gramsci, 1971). This edited volume encompasses a range of Greek-speaking communities dispersed across the globe. Often overlooked in broader sociolinguistic literature, some of the communities explored herein remain local to the places of their ancestry, whereas others constitute diasporas with unique migratory trajectories. Each chapter uses different methodologies demonstrating how the linguistic repertoires of these minoritized communities relate to and inform the experiences of the speakers in question. Despite the diversity in the backgrounds and practices of these communities and the breadth of research approaches applied in each chapter, these case studies collectively illustrate how minoritization yields contexts wherein identities are negotiated, often based on ‘authentic’ notions of personhood reinforced by dominant institutions. Consequently, this text highlights ways to critically examine dominant ideologies of personhood based on individuals’ real, lived experiences. |
| Book title | Greek in minoritized contexts: identities, authenticities, and institutions |
| Year | 2024 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
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| Published in print | 2025 |
| Published | 05 Dec 2024 |
| Place of publication | London |
| Series | Critical Studies in Multilingualism |
| ISBN | 9781032217147 |
| 9781003269694 | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003269694-1 |
| File | File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |