Biographies in the Global South
Gabriele Rosenthal ist emeritierte Professorin für Qualitative Methoden an der Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Göttingen.
Contents
Preface 7
Introduction 9
Gabriele Rosenthal and Artur Bogner
Biographies-Discourses-Figurations: Methodological considerations from the perspectives of social constructivism and figurational sociology 15
Artur Bogner and Gabriele Rosenthal
Familial and life (hi)stories of former child soldiers of the LRA in northern Uganda 50
Artur Bogner, Gabriele Rosenthal and Josephine Schmiereck
Illegalized migration courses from the perspective of biographical research and figurational sociology: The land border between Spain
and Morocco 103
Gabriele Rosenthal, Eva Bahl and Arne Worm
Civil war and the figurations of illegalized migration: Biographies of Syrian migrants coming to the European Union 160
Arne Worm
Precarious transnational biographies: Moroccan juveniles in the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla 185
Eva Bahl
A mixed family of long-time residents and internal migrants in East Jerusalem: The established-outsider figuration of 'Hebronites' and 'Jerusalemite families' in the context of the Israeli occupation 209
Johannes Becker
Toward a renewed marginalization of the Palestinian refugees? Transformations of we-images, patterns of interpretation and established-outsider relations in the Palestinian society of the West Bank since the 1970s 236
Hendrik Hinrichsen
Palestinian women in Haifa-Resistance as empowerment 258
Nicole WitteTranscription symbols 281
Works cited 282
About the authors 306
Index 309
Introduction
Gabriele Rosenthal and Artur Bogner
The main purpose of the authors and editors of this book was not only to study and write about people from the "Global South", their life stories and how they are interrelated with other people, but also to give a voice to these people themselves. All the articles are in the tradition of social-constructivist biographical research, the aim of which is to reconstruct the "subjective" perspectives of the people concerned in their lived past, and in the present when speaking or writing about their experiences (see Rosenthal 2005). It is important, firstly, to show how the people themselves are the actors and authors of their history and their stories, how they carried out activities and made decisions which affected their later life, how they interpret and comprehend their past and present life, and how they present themselves and their conduct to "Western" social scientists. The idea of "construction" in the term "social constructivism" refers to the fact that people always, from the very beginning of their history, live in a 'world' that is actively interpreted by them. This process of construction is "social" or collective because this world is constantly, without interruption, being produced and reproduced, both by the joint (through not always conflict-free) practical actions of many people, and by their joint or collective interpretations of it. This is an essential basic assumption of our understanding of social human reality and of the methodology needed to study it.
Secondly, the authors and editors believe it is important to understand the social constellations of circumstances which influence and very often constrain the people concerned, which can force them into relatively powerless, and sometimes extremely powerless, positions, and which can make their voices silent, or hard to hear, in the public discourse. It is also important to understand the way they are influenced or determined-or, to borrow a term from Michel Foucault, "permeated"-by predominant discourses, or by prevailing patterns of interpretation in collective discourses. The authors combine this approach with that of "figurational sociology", a research tradition based on the work of Norbert Elias. This means that they do not restrict themselves to the life courses of individuals, but show how these are intricately entwined with bigger social or collective processes and actualities. These bigger actualities include the public pictures and images of the individuals concerned and their we-groups-whether these are local or supralocal we-groups, or even transnational (like a lot of Christian churches, but also many other associations, organizations or movements). The importance of such we-groups for the individuals concerned differs in many cases, and is often very different at different times. Not least, they include families or kin groups, as well as socio-historical generations, which are created and shaped by the shared or simultaneous experience of a collective process (usually a so-called "historical event").
There is a strong tendency among social scientists from the "G7" countries to focus on their own lifeworlds, and one of the aims of this book is to counteract this by concentrating on the biographies and circumstances of people living in the "Global South". The studies presented here were all carried out in the contexts of our own research, under the supervision of one of the two editors. They represent a form of biographical research which we call the figurational biographical approach. This approach, and the reasons why we have chosen to adopt it, are presented and discussed in detail in the first chapter of this volume.
The articles in this book are devoted to the life stories and life courses of individuals as components of bigger groupings or we-groups (such as religious or political organizations or movements), or parts of the dynamic figurations formed by these individuals and groupings.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.08.2017 |
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| Co-Autor | Eva Bahl, Johannes Becker, Artur Bogner, Hendrik Hinrichsen, Gabriele Rosenthal, Josephine Schmiereck, Nicole Witte, Arne Worm |
| Verlagsort | Weinheim |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 142 x 215 mm |
| Gewicht | 388 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung | |
| Schlagworte | Afrika; Politik/Zeitgeschichte • Biografieforschung • Biografien/Erinnerungen • Biography • Demographie u. Migration • Figurationssoziologie • Grenzforschung • Kulturgeschichte • Migration • Nahost / Naher Osten; Politik/Zeitgeschichte |
| ISBN-13 | 9783593507835 / 9783593507835 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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