[Linganth] Reading recommendations 'we' among activists

Tue Mar 23 17:59:13 UTC 2021

Hi,

There are a number of works that talk about the role of "we" in reflecting
and establishing group identities. Here are some:

Billig, Michael. 1995. *Banal Nationalism*. London: Sage.

Dori-Hacohen, Gonen. 2014. “Establishing Social Groups in Hebrew: ‘We’ in
Political Radio Phone-In

Programs.” In *Constructing Collectivity: ‘We’ across Languages and
Contexts, *edited by S. Pavlidou, 187–206. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Marques, Isabelle Simões and Michele Koven. 2018. “‘We are Going to Our
Portuguese Homeland!’ French Luso-descendants’ Diasporic Facebook
Conarrations of Vacation Return Trips to Portugal.” *Narrative Inquiry* 27
(2): 286-310.

Urban, Greg. 2001. *Metaculture: How Culture Moves through the World*.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Yeh, Rihan. (2018) *Passing: Two Publics in a Mexican Border City*.
University of Chicago Press.

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 12:32 PM Cynthia Gordon <cyngordon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Duff,
> The following papers might be useful. The first one (by one of my terrific
> former students, Minh Nguyen) studies the discourse of an online AAPI
> activist group and includes consideration of "we" (though that is not the
> paper's main focus). The second one is a paper that I co-wrote with a
> colleague in counselor education; it examines "we" specifically (in a
> non-activist context, but still pertaining to creating shared alignments).
>
> Nguyen, Naomee-Minh. 2021. "This is similar to Vincent Chin":
> Intertextuality, referring expressions, and the discursive construction of
> Asian American activist identities in an online messaging community. *Discourse
> & Society* 31(1): 98-118.
>
> Gordon, Cynthia and Melissa Luke. 2016.* We* and professional identity
> socialization in email supervision of counselors-in-training. *Journal of
> Language and Social Psychology* 35(1): 56-76.
>
> Best,
> Cynthia Gordon
> Department of Linguistics
> Georgetown University
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 1:09 PM Jennifer Guzman <guzman at geneseo.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Duff,
>>
>> Although it is not specific to your question about research on use of
>> 'we' among activists, your student may find the following articles useful.
>> In them, my colleague and I report on our own ethnographic research with
>> some of the activists who were involved in the same NYS campaign for
>> driver's license access.
>>
>> 2020 Medeiros MA and JR Guzmán. Im/migrant Farmworker Deportability Fears
>> and Mental Health in the Trump Era: A Study of Polimigra and Contramigra in
>> New York State. Culture, Agriculture, Food, and Environment 42(2):103-113.
>> https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12254
>>
>> 2020 Guzmán, JR and MA Medeiros. Damned If You Drive, Damned If You
>> Don’t: Meso-level Policy and Im/migrant Farmworker Tactics under a Regime
>> of Immobility. Human Organization 79(2):130-139.
>> https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525.79.2.130
>>
>> 2019 Guzmán, JR and MA Medeiros. An Unlikely Cause: The Struggle for
>> Driver’s Licenses to Prevent Family Separation. Practicing Anthropology
>> 41(1):3-6.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Jennifer Guzmán
>> SUNY Geneseo
>>
>>
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>>> Dear list readers,
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>>>        Thank you for your collective wisdom! Tonight, I'm wondering if
>>> you
>>> can suggest any sources about the use of person deixis (especially "we"
>>> in
>>> English and similar forms in Spanish) among activists. This is for
>>> someone
>>> who's writing about a coalition that (successfully!) organized to
>>> persuade
>>> the New York state legislature to allow drivers licenses for undocumented
>>> migrants. The coalition's members made effective use of "we" in
>>> articulating the alliance that held them together, and it would be good
>>> to
>>> read sources that consider this issue. Again, *thank you* for any
>>> suggestions you can offer.
>>>          good wishes,
>>>                          -Duff
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