Exclusionary intimacies: Racialized language in Veneto, Northern Italy

Culture inside: Scale, intimacy, and chronotopic stance in situated narratives

“…This, we suggest, effectively instantiated Made in Italy as an intimate, embodied reality and relationality that needs to be protected. Through the use of deictics (personal pronouns), parallelistic structures, biological rhetoric, and the use of past and present tenses, Moreno's affective, embodied stance crystallized in his distancing of himself from non-Italians while becoming closer to his co-nationals with whom he shares an exclusionary, intimate identity (Perrino 2018, 2020). Next, we showed how Gracie drew upon rhythm, structure, deictics, and analogies to narrate her intimate identification as a Chinese citizen of a particular place and time.…”

“…The longer ethnographies of which these narratives derive, however, suggest that the repeated invocation of notions like Made in Italy or becoming mature have real effects in the world, especially across multiple conversations. In Italy, for example, Perrino (2018, 2020) shows how the instantiation of Made in Italy often works to create ‘exclusionary intimacies’ that carry disastrous consequences for people not included in the imagined biological line. In China, by contrast, micro-interactional shifts that reposition the ‘I’ as ‘we’ have the potential to support people to question and reformulate broad social categories such as selfhood and family (Pritzker & Duncan 2019).…”

Systems, features, figures: Approaches to language and class vs. language and race

“…Identity has been one of the most salient concepts in race and language research, as researchers have examined the intricacies of identity construction in multiracial, multiethnic settings (Bucholtz, 1999), the ways that racializing identities get made and attributed to students over the course of a school year (Wortham, 2005), and the intersection of race, sexuality, and class‐based identities among gay men (Barrett, 2017). The construction of images of the self and other has been looked at in relation to racializing narratives (Koven, 2013; Wortham, Allard, Lee, & Mortimer, 2011), comedy performances (Jacobs‐Huey, 2006), and everyday conversational practices (Pagliai, 2011; Perrino, 2018). Identity formulations align with what Carr (2010) has analysed as the “ideology of inner reference,” in which language points to the true feelings of an interior self and thus to one’s identity.…”

Fascism at eye level

“…A small group of anthropologists and other social scientists has grappled with the growing infl uence of these parties, factions, and movements since the 1970s. Kaisa Ekholm Friedman and Jonathan Friedman (2008aFriedman ( , 2008b, Andre Gingrich (2006), Don Kalb (2009Kalb ( , 2011Kalb ( , 2014Kalb ( , 2018, David Ost (2018), Michael Stewart (2012), Th omas Hylland Eriksen (1993Eriksen ( , 2006Eriksen ( , 2016Eriksen and Schober 2016;Eriksen 2018), andLynda Dematteo (2011), to name just a few, have laid the groundwork for this kind of analysis and a talented group of scholars is expanding this undertaking: Juraj Buzalka (2007Buzalka ( , 2008Buzalka ( , 2015Buzalka ( , 2018, Agnieszka Pasieka (2015Pasieka ( , 2016Pasieka ( , 2017Pasieka ( , 2019, Maddalena Gretel Cammelli (2015), Giacomo Loperfi do (2012,2014), Kristóf Szombati (2018), Nitzan Shoshan (2016), Cathrine Th orleifsson (2017, Peter Hervik (2019), Jaro Stacul (2003), and Sabina Perrino (2013, 2018a, 2018b, again, to name only a few.…”