Speaking Romanian, being Moldovan
Language choice and intersectional performance on children’s television
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6013196 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Onoriu Colăcel (0000-0002-6458-3212, Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 271-288 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Childhood (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0907-5682 • E-ISSN: 1461-7013 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/09075682251389479 |
| OpenAlex | W7104589786 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
Romanian language children’s television in the Republic of Moldova mainstreams identity through children’s performances of language choice. On-screen children and youth, aged 5-16, engage in two types of performative agency: literal singing, dancing, hosting and their implicit self-identification, against a bilingual backdrop (Russian and Romanian - also known as Moldovan). They document (re)definition attempts, expected to create economic opportunities, and make intersectional categories of being a child seem natural while foreclosing others. Children’s television negotiates post-Soviet identity, where language choice intersects with age, class, and national belonging to create distinctly Moldovan performances of childhood
Identity (music · Literal (mathematical logic · National identity · Natural (archaeology · Performative utterance · Romanian · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Multilingual Education and Policy · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
Who else are they? Conceptualizing intersectionality for childhood and youth research
The hyphen in between
Concepts of citizenship, social and system integration among young people in post-Soviet Moldova
Remembering socialist entertainment
Reform and relapse in bilingual policy in Moldova
Television and the European Public Sphere
On the topicality of the ethnology of Sovietness in the Republic of Moldova
Romanian childhood
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |