Categorising Category Labels in Interview Accounts about the 'Muslim Minority' in Greece

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ID3644785
AuthorsLia Figgou (0000-0001-5758-6936, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author), Susan Condor (Lancaster University, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume33
Issue3
Pages439-459
Publication date2007-04-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Community (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13691830701234541
OpenAlexW2006025208
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited37

In this paper we examine the construction of categorical distinctions and the negotiation of category labels in interview accounts given by a sample of the majority population (Orthodox Christians) in Thrace (Northern Greece) concerning their co-existence with the Muslim minority. Employing a rhetorical approach to categorisation, we argue that category labels constitute argumentative positions which reflect culturally specific assumptions around which Greekness and Otherness are constructed. Analysis points to the ways in which the rhetorical invocation of certain category labels may be treated by social actors as potentially open to the charge of racism. However, what counts as racism or discrimination in relation to various category labels is not unproblematic and straightforward. As the meaning attached to particular categories shifts, the meaning attached to ‘racism’ also changes

Argumentative · Categorical variable · Categorization · Epistemology · Invocation · Linguistics · Population · Racism · Rhetorical question · Social category · Sociology · Anthropology · Demography · Gender Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Mathematics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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