Diverse transnational backgrounds, same master narrative? Constructions of a national past among middle-school students

IF 1 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Culture & Psychology Pub Date : 2022-10-20 DOI:10.1177/1354067X221135041

Floor van Alphen, Cesar Lopez

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Abstract

In this study, we aimed to explore the various ways in which the past is constructed, using or tinkering with a national master narrative, by students surrounded by and immersed in contemporary transnational plurality. Specifically, we studied the permanence of or variations on the Spanish ‘reconquest’ narrative among 14 to 15-year-old students of a public school in Madrid. Semi-structured individual interviews were carried out with 30 students whose families came from Madrid, other regions in Spain and other countries around the world. We carried out a detailed narrative analysis of their constructions of the medieval past on the Iberian Peninsula and found that the ‘reconquest’ narrative still predominates. Few variations in their narratives were found that hint at counternarratives, the ‘travelling’ of narrative schema across national borders, or the transnational trajectories in their families feeding into their constructions. Given these findings, we discuss the role of alternative narrative schema and dynamic concepts of nation and national identity in challenging national master narratives.

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不同的跨国背景，相同的主叙事？中学生民族历史的建构

在这项研究中，我们旨在探索由被当代跨国多元性包围并沉浸在其中的学生通过使用或修补国家大师叙事来构建过去的各种方式。具体而言，我们在马德里一所公立学校的14至15岁学生中研究了西班牙语“再探索”叙事的永久性或变异性。对来自马德里、西班牙其他地区和世界其他国家的30名学生进行了半结构化的个人访谈。我们对他们在伊比利亚半岛的中世纪历史进行了详细的叙事分析，发现“重新探索”叙事仍然占主导地位。在他们的叙述中，几乎没有发现任何变化，暗示着反叙事、叙事模式跨越国界的“旅行”，或者他们家庭的跨国轨迹融入了他们的结构。鉴于这些发现，我们讨论了另类叙事模式以及国家和国家认同的动态概念在挑战国家主导叙事中的作用。

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Culture & Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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2.40

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18.80%

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期刊介绍： Culture & Psychology addresses the centrality of culture necessary for a basic understanding of the psychology of human beings: their identity, social conduct, intra- and intersubjective experiences, emotions and semiotic creativity. By drawing on diverse theoretical backgrounds, the editorial aim is to provide an international and interdisciplinary forum for scholarly investigations and discussions that will advance our basic knowledge of the self in its historical and cultural contexts. The orientation of the journal is towards formulating new conceptualizations of culture in psychology, together with theoretically relevant empirical investigations.