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Yvonne Niekrenz
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Transnational bodies: Embodiment of transnational settings
2016
AbstractThe everyday life of more and more people is characterized by transnationalism. People increasingly interact across borders and in a network of transnational relationships. While interactions may be border-crossing, the actors’ body remains situated and limited in time and space. However, the thesis of this paper is that transnationalism processes are embodied. Thus, we speak of an embodiment of transnational settings. We focus on symbolic interactionism – Charles H. Cooley and George H. Mead in particular provide a large repertoire of concepts – to theoretically conceive transnational bodies. To show how transnational embodiment can manifest itself we use the example of young peopl…
Transnational lives. Transnational bodies? An introduction
2016
Over the past 20 years, both “the body” and “transnationalism” have been elaborated as sociological terms, empirically investigated as research topics, and finally established within the social-sci...
An analysis of metaphors in the biographies of the ‘GDR children of Namibia’
2020
Metaphors are linguistically dense images that transfer terms from their original usage to a different context and describe actions and objects beyond their literal meaning. This article uses Rudol...
Aufwachsen zwischen Zukunfts- und Traditionsorientierung.
2013
Viele Dinge scheinen ganz selbstverstandlich zu sein; so als hatte es sie immer schon gegeben. Kinder und Jugendliche, die gemeinsam Knoten knupfen, Feuer machen, Lieder singen und sich ehrenamtlich in ihrer Region engagieren – vielleicht gehoren die Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder als Vertreter einer weltweiten Jugendbewegung zu diesen Selbstverstandlichkeiten.