Negotiating multiple identities

2016-09-03 Social Science

Author : Kiyoko Sueda
Release : 2016-09-03
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book Negotiating multiple identities written by Kiyoko Sueda. This book was released on 2016-09-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses a post-modern approach to explore how Japanese returnee students (kikokushijo) and former returnees who work in Japanese industry, negotiate multiple identities. Methodological triangulation is used to study inner perception of face, emotional state and the dynamics of negotiating multiple-layering of identities. The work considers the relationship between face and identities, and the function of the affective aspects of face, shame and pride in identity negotiation. Readers will discover how Japanese returnees deal with shame and pride in face-threatening or face-promoting situations that affect their identity negotiation. Many such returnees stayed abroad because of their parents’ jobs and the author explores variations among them, in terms of how they identify with their identity as a returnee. We discover how there are multiple levels of identities instead of ‘identity’ as a singular. Two phases of research, carried out across ten years and involving some participants in both phases, are explored in this work. Although the participants in the research are Japanese returnees, the findings drawn from the study have implications for others who spend an extensive period of time overseas, who migrate from one place to another or who have multiple cultural backgrounds. The book incorporates ideas from Western and Eastern literature on intercultural communication, sociology and social psychology and it blends both micro and macro analysis. This book is recommended for scholars, educators, students and practitioners who seek to understand better how people negotiate their multiple identities in this globalising world.

Negotiating multiple identities

2014-05-05 Social Science

Author : Kiyoko Sueda
Release : 2014-05-05
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book Negotiating multiple identities written by Kiyoko Sueda. This book was released on 2014-05-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses a post-modern approach to explore how Japanese returnee students (kikokushijo) and former returnees who work in Japanese industry, negotiate multiple identities. Methodological triangulation is used to study inner perception of face, emotional state and the dynamics of negotiating multiple-layering of identities. The work considers the relationship between face and identities, and the function of the affective aspects of face, shame and pride in identity negotiation. Readers will discover how Japanese returnees deal with shame and pride in face-threatening or face-promoting situations that affect their identity negotiation. Many such returnees stayed abroad because of their parents’ jobs and the author explores variations among them, in terms of how they identify with their identity as a returnee. We discover how there are multiple levels of identities instead of ‘identity’ as a singular. Two phases of research, carried out across ten years and involving some participants in both phases, are explored in this work. Although the participants in the research are Japanese returnees, the findings drawn from the study have implications for others who spend an extensive period of time overseas, who migrate from one place to another or who have multiple cultural backgrounds. The book incorporates ideas from Western and Eastern literature on intercultural communication, sociology and social psychology and it blends both micro and macro analysis. This book is recommended for scholars, educators, students and practitioners who seek to understand better how people negotiate their multiple identities in this globalising world.

Women in Sport Leadership

2017-06-26 Business & Economics

Author : Laura J. Burton
Release : 2017-06-26
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book Women in Sport Leadership written by Laura J. Burton. This book was released on 2017-06-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although women and girls participate in sport in greater numbers than ever before, research shows there has been no significant increase in women leading sport organizations. This book takes an international, evidence-based perspective in examining women in sport leadership and offers future directions for improving gender equity. With contributions from leading international sport scholars and practitioners, it explores the opportunities and challenges women face while exercising leadership in sport organizations and evaluates leadership development practices. While positional leadership is crucial, this book argues that some women may choose to exercise leadership in non-positional ways, challenging readers to consider their personal values and passions. The chapters not only discuss key topics such as gender bias, intersectionality, quotas, networking, mentoring and sponsoring, but also present a variety of strategies to develop and support the next generation of women leaders in sport. A new model of how to achieve gender equity in sport leadership is also introduced. Women in Sport Leadership: Research and Practice for Change is important reading for all students, scholars, leaders, administrators, and coaches with an interest in sport business, policy and management, as well as women’s sport and gender studies.

Competing Loyalties

2013 Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature

Author : Terje Saar-Hambazaza
Release : 2013
Genre : Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
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Download or read book Competing Loyalties written by Terje Saar-Hambazaza. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following study examines the fragmentation, instability, and fluidity of individual identity as well as the interconnectedness of multiple identities and the experience of the divided self in modern America. The dissertation focuses on six authors--Henry James, Willa Cather, Anzia Yezierska, James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, and Nella Larsen--and analyzes the ways in which they have represented, negotiated, reconstructed, and reconciled various competing loyalties to multiple identities in their works. The study draws upon recent theories of social construction, performance studies, studies of ethnicity, gender, and race in order to demonstrate the writers' interest in uncovering the complexity of the American character. The study argues that the formation of American identity, that encompasses simultaneous multiple identity experiences, is closely associated with major socioeconomic changes America was facing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, including industrialization, westward expansion, immigration, the effects of urbanization, the human rights movement, and the emerging mass consumer culture. As cultural commentators, these writers aligned their works with their contemporary society's discussions about American identity, problems related to ethnicity, immigration, gender, sexuality, race, and class. The study suggests that while they utilize themes and characters that cross ethnic, racial, class, and gender boundaries in their literary works, these writers' own struggles with multiple identities and, at times, deliberate adoption of one identity over another further reveal that the authors themselves suffered from similar challenges as they negotiated their own loyalties to multiple identities.

Negotiating Cultures and Identities

2006-12-01 Social Science

Author : John L. Caughey
Release : 2006-12-01
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book Negotiating Cultures and Identities written by John L. Caughey. This book was released on 2006-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiating Cultures and Identities examines issues, methods, and models for doing life history research with individual Americans based on interviews and participant observation. John L. Caughey helps students and other researchers explore the ways in which contemporary Americans are influenced by multiple cultural traditions, including ethnic, religious, and occupational frames of reference. Using the example of Salma, a bicultural woman of Pakistani descent who lives in the United States, and the story of Gina, a multicultural American, Caughey examines how to capture the complexity of each situation, including step-by-step methods and exercises that lead the student interviewer through the process of locating and interviewing a research participant, making sense of the material obtained, and writing a cultural portrait. Arguing that comparison between the subject’s life and one’s own is an essential part of the process, the methodology also encourages the investigator to research his or her own social and cultural orientations along the way and to contrast these with those of the subject. The book offers a practical, manageable, and engaging form of qualitative research. It prepares the student to do grounded, experiential work outside the classroom and to explore important issues in contemporary American society, including ethnicity, race, identity, disability, gender, class, occupation, religion, and spirituality as they are culturally understood and experienced in the lives of individual Americans.

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