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Schnurr, Stephanie, van de Mieroop, Dorien and Zayts, Olga (2014) Positioning oneself in relation to larger collectivities in expatriates' workplace narratives. Narrative Inquiry, Volume 24 (Number 2). 386 -407. doi:10.1075/ni.24.2.11sch
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.24.2.11sch
Abstract
This article aims to explore narratives as sites for identity construction by employing the concept of positioning to analyse some of the discursive processes through which identity construction is accomplished in institutional contexts. Our specific foci are i) the ways in which individuals position themselves in relation to larger collectivities in their narratives about being expatriates living and working in Hong Kong, and ii) how they construct their professional identities in the tension that may arise due to their membership in different social groups. Drawing on data from a corpus of interviews with professionals in multicultural workplaces in Hong Kong, we provide an in-depth analysis of two case studies of expatriates who take very different stances towards their company and the cultural groups with whom they interact, and who, as a consequence, construct remarkably different identities for themselves, the people they work with and also their organisation. Our analyses illustrate some of the intricate ways in which identities are closely intertwined with and feed off individuals’ membership in different collectivities, which surfaces especially when zooming in on the different levels of positioning in the interviewees’ narratives.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Identity (Psychology), Organizational behavior | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Narrative Inquiry | ||||
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Co. | ||||
| ISSN: | 1387-6740 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2014 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 24 | ||||
| Number: | Number 2 | ||||
| Page Range: | 386 -407 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1075/ni.24.2.11sch | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
| Funder: | University of Hong Kong (HKU) | ||||
| Grant number: | 201110159014 (HKU) |
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