{"id":26142,"date":"2012-10-22T05:45:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T05:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26142"},"modified":"2015-11-03T02:17:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T02:17:11","slug":"from-paranoid-to-reparative-narratives-of-cultural-identification-in-the-social-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26142","title":{"rendered":"From Paranoid to Reparative: Narratives of Cultural Identification in the Social Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/jnt.2012.0007\" target=\"_blank\">From Paranoid to Reparative: Narratives of Cultural Identification in the Social Sciences<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_narrative_theory\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Narrative Theory<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_narrative_theory\/toc\/jnt.42.2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 42, Number 2<\/a>, Summer 2012<br \/>\npages 193-211<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/jnt.2012.0007\" target=\"_blank\">10.1353\/jnt.2012.0007<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ssps.unimelb.edu.au\/about\/staff\/dr-ashley-barnwell\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley Barnwell<\/a><\/strong>, Ashworth Lecturer in Sociology<br \/>\nSchool of Social and Political Sciences<br \/>\n<em>University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article tries to draw out the complexity with which people collate their cultural identities. It takes genealogy research as a case study. Looking specifically at an episode of the popular television program <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Who_Do_You_Think_You_Are%3F_(UK_TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\">Who Do You Think You Are?<\/a><\/em> starring <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Hurt\" target=\"_blank\">John Hurt<\/a>, the paper asks whether the concept of &#8216;cultural appropriation&#8217; can fully capture the fluid, social, and often unconscious means by which people attempt to verify and position their life stories. It also uses the theory of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eve_Kosofsky_Sedgwick\" target=\"_blank\">Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick<\/a> to think about how we attribute an author&#8217;s motive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Paranoid to Reparative: Narratives of Cultural Identification in the Social Sciences Journal of Narrative Theory Volume 42, Number 2, Summer 2012 pages 193-211 DOI: 10.1353\/jnt.2012.0007 Ashley Barnwell, Ashworth Lecturer in Sociology School of Social and Political Sciences University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia This article tries to draw out the complexity with which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,6462,394],"tags":[12571,8815],"class_list":["post-26142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-socialscience","tag-ashley-barnwell","tag-journal-of-narrative-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26142"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43701,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26142\/revisions\/43701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}