Historical Consciousness and Ethnicity
How Signifying the Past Influences the Fluctuations in Ethnic Boundary Maintenance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5281990 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Zanazanian (0000-0001-5044-162X, Concordia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 123-141 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic studies review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1555-1881 • E-ISSN: 2576-2915 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/esr.2010.33.2.123 |
| OpenAlex | W2765961646 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 2 |
Theorists tend to limit 'history's' role in the dynamics of ethnicity to that generally played by collective memory. By bringing the notion of historical consciousness to the fore, new possibilities may, however, emerge for discerning how history, as one cultural mode of remembering among many others, impacts both ethnicity delineations and fluctuations in boundary maintenance. In encapsulating the many forms of commemoration as well as the different dimensions of historical thinking, the contribution of historical consciousness accordingly lies on how group members historicize temporal change for moral orientation in time. By likewise signifying past events for negotiating their ethnicity and agency toward the 'significant Other', social actors gate-keep group boundaries. And, depending on their capacity and willingness to recognize the 'significant Other's' moral and historical agency in the flow of time, they can transform group delineations and render ethnic boundaries more porous
Agency (philosophy · Consciousness · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Negotiation · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |