Being German, Paraguayan and Germanino

Exploring the Relation Between Social and Personal Identity

Bibliographic Data

ID18965409
AuthorsJ Kurzwelly (0000-0002-0993-573X, University of the Free State, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume19
Issue2
Pages144-156
Publication date2019-04-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIdentity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1528-3488 • E-ISSN: 1532-706X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15283488.2019.1604348
OpenAlexW2942689943
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited18

Despite people’s claims, their national, ethnic and other identities are not ubiquitously relevant, they are rather situationally evoked and performed. Such is the case with the German, Paraguayan and Germanino identity in the municipality of Nueva Germania, in Paraguay. Recognising such contextual epistemic permissibility allows us to form a de-essentialised understanding of groups and individuals. One of the challenges that emerge from this approach, is to understand how a person can perform different identities, which differently define who they are, while remaining certain of being a continuous and persistent person. The objective of this article is to provide a theoretical grounding for theories of social identity in theories of personal identity. It allows us to analytically accommodate the situational and multiscalar character of identities, while recognising their existential importance for personal identity (for the Self)

Data mining · Developmental psychology · German · Identity (music) · Personal identity · Relation (database) · Self-concept · Social group · Social identity theory · Sociology · American Literature and Culture · Computer Science · Indigenous Studies in Latin America · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity

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