Emergent organization in the dialogical self: Evolution of a ‘‘both’’ ethnic identity position

Bell, Nancy J.; Das, Anindita

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“…This can lead to multivoicedness and identity hybridity (Bell & Das, 2011), so that acculturation is not just a process of moving from one culture to another, but is rather a process of appropriating several cultural positions within one's sense of self (Bhatia & Ram, 2001.…”

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Identity and acculturation: The case of naturalised citizens in Britain

Andreouli

2013

Culture & Psychology

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This paper advances a dialogical perspective on acculturation. Drawing on the theories of social representations and dialogical self, it conceptualises acculturation as a process of negotiation between different or conflicting social representations and identity positions. It is argued that in order to understand acculturation, we need to explore how migrants represent different cultures and how they position themselves towards them. Drawing on thirty-three interviews with new British citizens, the paper examines how participants made sense of their place in Britain by studying the meanings of acculturation for participants themselves. In the interviews British culture was represented in a polyphasic way incorporating both negative and positive values. Therefore, acculturation represented both an enrichment of identity and an identity threat for many of the participants. Participants negotiated their position within this representational field by engaging in a dialogical negotiation between identity positions. The paper concludes that a dialogical approach to knowledge construction (social representations theory) and identity (dialogical self theory) provides appropriate theoretical tools for understanding acculturation as an ongoing process, not a single static outcome.

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Identity and acculturation: The case of naturalised citizens in Britain

Andreouli

2013

Culture & Psychology

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“…It has guided real-time microgenetic analyses of emergent self-meanings (Bell & Das, 2011;Cunha, 2007), research on the processes of change in therapy settings extending over several months , and longer-term studies as in this analysis. It can be applied in single-occasion retrospective accounts of identity change (Baron, Bell, Corson, Kostina-Ritchey, and Frederick, 2012), although, as in any study of development, evaluations over time provide more detailed information about processes.…”

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Dialogical Processes of Self-Transformation: The Sample Case of Eating Disorder Recovery

Bell¹

2013

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Recent advances in the dialogically based study of self-transformation have come from process analyses of short-term therapy. The purpose of this article is to extend dialogical analysis to the whole of the transformation process by drawing on multiple dialogical theories. Using as an example the transition from eating disorders to recovery, the article documents the correspondence between women's recovery narratives and four phases of selftransformation-recognition, distanciation, articulation, and appropriation. Dialogical theory relevant to each of the phases is described and theoretical principles are illustrated in a case study of a young woman who was followed for nearly four years. The article concludes with a discussion of the value of multiple levels of analysis and implications for future research.

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“…Social normativity of such guidance for personal identity development leads to the hierarchical nature of the identity structures that emerge in that process. Looking at hierarchical order in identity processes can be theoretically productive (Bell & Das, 2011, p. 245)—here, the question of identity becomes that of dialogical self. A juxtaposition of “I-as-X” (“Indian”) with “I-as-Y” (“American”) creates a personal dialogue that can led to “I-as-both X and Y”—the minimum hierarchical organization of self-identity (hyphenated identity—Ali & Sonn, 2010).…”

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“…Collective interest in Culture & Psychology in the Dialogical Self Theory (DST) has continued since these early presences of Hermans’ ideas in the Journal. All in all 226 articles have over the years dealt with various issues of Hermans’ innovation, pushing it in both theoretical directions and bringing in interesting empirical phenomena (Bell & Das, 2011; Carriere, 2018; Grinell, 2018).…”

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Culture & Psychology: 25 Constructive years

Valsiner¹

2019

Culture & Psychology

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In this article, I review main directions in innovative ideas that have been presented on the pages of Culture & Psychology over its 25 year history. The field of cultural psychology has become established and gains increasing prominence over the years covered—yet its future depends on careful development of the specific theoretical ideas catalyzed by the use of the hyper-term culture in the different arenas of concrete human psychology. Potential future ideas for cultural psychology include a move from acculturation to proculturation, modulation of psychological distance by signs, building models of dialogical relationships in socially asymmetric role relations, and of the affective textures of everyday living. These are all processes of higher-order complexity that require new ways of conceptualizing methodology in psychology—one that prioritizes theoretically based methods construction over those of consensually established “tool boxes.” Cultural psychology has the advantage over other areas of psychology to consider both the real and not (yet) real human conditions within the same scheme, thus allowing for conceptualization of highest forms of human creativity in ordinary human lives.

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Emergent organization in the dialogical self: Evolution of a ‘‘both’’ ethnic identity position

Cited by 18 publications

References 28 publications

Identity and acculturation: The case of naturalised citizens in Britain

Identity and acculturation: The case of naturalised citizens in Britain

Dialogical Processes of Self-Transformation: The Sample Case of Eating Disorder Recovery

Culture & Psychology: 25 Constructive years

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