Maria Xenitidou
Biographic Data
| ID | 4437199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Xenitidou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Xenitidou |
| SIGNATURE | XENITIDOU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Surrey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2699-6358 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Exploring perceptions of smart, modular living in the UK
While there is growing interest in the design and deployment of smart and modular homes in the UK, there remain questions about the public’s readiness and willingness to live in them. Understanding what conditions prospective residents might place upon the decisions to live in such homes stands to improve their design, helping them to meet with the expectations, and requirements of their residents. Through direct interaction with a prototype of a…
Citizenship and Acculturation as Contested Argumentative Frames
This study advances an understanding of citizenship and acculturation as dilemmatic frames that are shaped by and provide situated argumentative resources for constructing belonging while managing intergroup power dynamics. It documents how Greek NGO workers may draw on these resources to negotiate and make sense of non‐dominant cultural groups' socio‐political and cultural inclusion/exclusion and to achieve particular interactional goals. Analys…
The power of discourse
This article focuses on discourses of ‘smart’ in order to invite more inclusive communications among policymakers, scientists and practitioners, designers and developers. The selected data consist of the European Commission policy discourse on innovation for the digital future and related developments currently in force with legally binding financial and monitoring instruments. We identify assumptions about who and what ‘drives’ this domain of in…
Criteria of citizenship and social inclusion in immigrants’ discourse in Greece
Naturalization criteria play an important role in who can be accepted as a member of a national polity. In the political and social sciences often a distinction is drawn between the right of blood- jus sanguinis- and the right of soil-jus soli- as guiding principles for naturalization. This distinction corresponds to the two different types of nationalism and national belonging identified by Kohn (1945, 1955) namely “ethnic” nationalism and “civi…
Qualitative methodologies in the study of citizenship and migration
This special issue brings together contributions on citizenship from social psychology.The six papers that make up the special issue focus on different cases but they all share in common: (i) a focus on studying citizenship and migration albeit different aspects and in different contexts; (ii) an approach to citizenship from the 'ground', focusing on the ways in which social actors understand, negotiate and enact citizenship; (iii) the use of qua…
Admissions of racism in discourse on migration in Greece
The turn to language in social psychology is closely related to the study of prejudice as racist discourse has been the subject matter of some of the ground‐breaking discourse analytic work. A widely accepted argument was that there seems to be a norm against prejudice informing Western societies: people commonly engage in denials of prejudice when they make negative comments about minorities. Recent work has argued that, due to ideological shift…
Europe” in Greece
In this paper, we analyse discourses about Europe in Greek debates about immigration and citizenship and highlight the complexities of “Europeanness” as a symbolic resource for argumentation in these debates. Our data consist of lay discourses from 2 rounds of online public deliberation (2009–2010 and 2015) about a controversial new citizenship law in Greece. Our analysis shows that Europe is an ambivalent category. On the one hand, Europe symbol…
The Complexity of Social Norms
Complexity of Social Norms
The Conundrum of Social Norms
National identity and otherness in Greek speakers’ talk about immigration
The aim of the paper is to present the potential contribution of using Critical Discursive Psychology to study national identity and immigration. It draws upon a study on Greek national identity negotiations in relation to immigration. The study was guided by the perspective of banal nationalism which treats national identity as a form of life in a world divided into nation-states (Billig, 1995). In terms of Greek national identity and immigratio…
Parental discourse and identity management in the talk of indigenous and migrant speakers
This article integrates discursive psychology and argumentation studies to discuss the regularities identified in two sets of data – focus group discussions amongst indigenous Greeks residing in Central Northern Greece and interviews with non-indigenous women with children, resident in the greater London area. The initial regularity identified consisted of participants talking as parents and talking about children mobilizing the normative expecta…
Introduction to the Special Issue
In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in methodological innovation and innovative methodologies in the social sciences. Driven by a wider, global impetus for innovation, discussions have centred on the use, application, diffusion and success of new methods. In the social sciences in particular, this upsurge of interest has been attributed to a need to respond to the complexities of the social world that has encouraged methodologic…
Europe” in Greece
In this paper, we analyse discourses about Europe in Greek debates about immigration and citizenship and highlight the complexities of “Europeanness” as a symbolic resource for argumentation in these debates. Our data consist of lay discourses from 2 rounds of online public deliberation (2009–2010 and 2015) about a controversial new citizenship law in Greece. Our analysis shows that Europe is an ambivalent category. On the one hand, Europe symbol…
Parental discourse and identity management in the talk of indigenous and migrant speakers
This article integrates discursive psychology and argumentation studies to discuss the regularities identified in two sets of data – focus group discussions amongst indigenous Greeks residing in Central Northern Greece and interviews with non-indigenous women with children, resident in the greater London area. The initial regularity identified consisted of participants talking as parents and talking about children mobilizing the normative expecta…
Admissions of racism in discourse on migration in Greece
The turn to language in social psychology is closely related to the study of prejudice as racist discourse has been the subject matter of some of the ground‐breaking discourse analytic work. A widely accepted argument was that there seems to be a norm against prejudice informing Western societies: people commonly engage in denials of prejudice when they make negative comments about minorities. Recent work has argued that, due to ideological shift…
Introduction to the Special Issue
In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in methodological innovation and innovative methodologies in the social sciences. Driven by a wider, global impetus for innovation, discussions have centred on the use, application, diffusion and success of new methods. In the social sciences in particular, this upsurge of interest has been attributed to a need to respond to the complexities of the social world that has encouraged methodologic…
Introduction to the Special Issue
In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in methodological innovation and innovative methodologies in the social sciences. Driven by a wider, global impetus for innovation, discussions have centred on the use, application, diffusion and success of new methods. In the social sciences in particular, this upsurge of interest has been attributed to a need to respond to the complexities of the social world that has encouraged methodologic…
The Complexity of Social Norms
Complexity of Social Norms
The Conundrum of Social Norms
National identity and otherness in Greek speakers’ talk about immigration
The aim of the paper is to present the potential contribution of using Critical Discursive Psychology to study national identity and immigration. It draws upon a study on Greek national identity negotiations in relation to immigration. The study was guided by the perspective of banal nationalism which treats national identity as a form of life in a world divided into nation-states (Billig, 1995). In terms of Greek national identity and immigratio…
Parental discourse and identity management in the talk of indigenous and migrant speakers
This article integrates discursive psychology and argumentation studies to discuss the regularities identified in two sets of data – focus group discussions amongst indigenous Greeks residing in Central Northern Greece and interviews with non-indigenous women with children, resident in the greater London area. The initial regularity identified consisted of participants talking as parents and talking about children mobilizing the normative expecta…
Europe” in Greece
In this paper, we analyse discourses about Europe in Greek debates about immigration and citizenship and highlight the complexities of “Europeanness” as a symbolic resource for argumentation in these debates. Our data consist of lay discourses from 2 rounds of online public deliberation (2009–2010 and 2015) about a controversial new citizenship law in Greece. Our analysis shows that Europe is an ambivalent category. On the one hand, Europe symbol…
Criteria of citizenship and social inclusion in immigrants’ discourse in Greece
Naturalization criteria play an important role in who can be accepted as a member of a national polity. In the political and social sciences often a distinction is drawn between the right of blood- jus sanguinis- and the right of soil-jus soli- as guiding principles for naturalization. This distinction corresponds to the two different types of nationalism and national belonging identified by Kohn (1945, 1955) namely “ethnic” nationalism and “civi…
Qualitative methodologies in the study of citizenship and migration
This special issue brings together contributions on citizenship from social psychology.The six papers that make up the special issue focus on different cases but they all share in common: (i) a focus on studying citizenship and migration albeit different aspects and in different contexts; (ii) an approach to citizenship from the 'ground', focusing on the ways in which social actors understand, negotiate and enact citizenship; (iii) the use of qua…
Admissions of racism in discourse on migration in Greece
The turn to language in social psychology is closely related to the study of prejudice as racist discourse has been the subject matter of some of the ground‐breaking discourse analytic work. A widely accepted argument was that there seems to be a norm against prejudice informing Western societies: people commonly engage in denials of prejudice when they make negative comments about minorities. Recent work has argued that, due to ideological shift…
The power of discourse
This article focuses on discourses of ‘smart’ in order to invite more inclusive communications among policymakers, scientists and practitioners, designers and developers. The selected data consist of the European Commission policy discourse on innovation for the digital future and related developments currently in force with legally binding financial and monitoring instruments. We identify assumptions about who and what ‘drives’ this domain of in…
Exploring perceptions of smart, modular living in the UK
While there is growing interest in the design and deployment of smart and modular homes in the UK, there remain questions about the public’s readiness and willingness to live in them. Understanding what conditions prospective residents might place upon the decisions to live in such homes stands to improve their design, helping them to meet with the expectations, and requirements of their residents. Through direct interaction with a prototype of a…
Citizenship and Acculturation as Contested Argumentative Frames
This study advances an understanding of citizenship and acculturation as dilemmatic frames that are shaped by and provide situated argumentative resources for constructing belonging while managing intergroup power dynamics. It documents how Greek NGO workers may draw on these resources to negotiate and make sense of non‐dominant cultural groups' socio‐political and cultural inclusion/exclusion and to achieve particular interactional goals. Analys…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works)