Religious victimization as social empowerment in discrimination narratives from California's Proposition 8 campaign

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2137307
AutoresChris Vanderstouwe (University of California, Santa Barbara, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen2
Número2
Páginas235-261
Fecha de publicación2013-08-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Language and Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2211-3770 • E-ISSN: 2211-3789
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jls.2.2.03van
OpenAlexW2006137527
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas17

One of the premier social issues in contemporary US politics is that of same-sex marriage. This research explores language use and identity construction by same-sex marriage supporters through narratives of discrimination. This paper analyzes data collected through the non-profit Marriage Equality USA, wherein narrators respond to a survey question about experiences of discrimination during California's Proposition 8 campaign, a statewide initiative that repealed the rights of same-sex couples to marry. In doing so, narrators use ideologies of religion and religious affiliation to: (1) construct a victim identity in relation to their experiences, (2) use this as a springboard to challenge their victimization, (3) establish opposition between individual and institutional positioning of religious identity, and (4) switch roles with their victimizers with respect to victim and empowered positions. In doing so, narrators use victimization as empowerment to convey a progressive position in an inevitably successful social movement

Empowerment · Identity (music · Identity politics · Ideology · Narrative · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Proposition · Religiosity · Religious identity · Social group · Social identity theory · Sociology · Gender Studies · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology