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Boundaries and Belonging in the Greek Community of Georgia / “Language” as a resource for positioning
Boundaries and Belonging in the Greek Community of Georgia / “Language” as a resource for positioning
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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A. Introducing the Greek community of Georgia: A note on naming
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B. Research on Georgia’s Greek community
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C. Research questions
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D. Outline of the book
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Chapter 2: Historical background
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A. Migrating from the Ottoman to the Russian Empire
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B. The Soviet Union: Processes of homogenization and particularization
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C. Encounters with the nation state
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I. Georgian transformations
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II. Emigration to Greece
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47–78
Chapter 3: Researching identification, belonging, and the (un)making of boundaries
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A. Processes of groupness and belonging
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I. Imagination: Categories and groupness
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II. Community and belonging
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III. Actors, processes, and context
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B. The limits of belonging: Boundaries
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I. Qualities of boundaries
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II. (Un)making boundaries
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C. Methodological considerations
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I. Categorization
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II. Doing things with categories: Positioning the self and others
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III. Context
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Chapter 4: Data collection and analysis
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A. The semi-structured interview
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B. Who to speak to?
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C. Constructing and entering the field
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D. From interview data to written analysis
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Chapter 5: “Language” as a resource for positioning
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A. Heritage varieties
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I. Competence and everyday language use
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II. Speaking about and evaluating the heritage varieties
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1. The “Choice” between language and religion
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2. Speaking about the respective other heritage variety
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3. Speaking about Pontic Greek
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4. Urum as a “Problematic” heritage variety
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III. Preliminary summary
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B. Standard Modern Greek
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I. Competence in SMG and evaluating its importance
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II. Tracing belonging through competence
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III. “We are born Greeks”: Tracing belonging through ancestry and religion
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IV. Competence “Desirable” – uncertain evaluations
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V. Preliminary summary
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C. Shifting languages of (official) communication: Russian and Georgian
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I. Competence and everyday language use
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II. Speaking about Russian
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III. Comparing Russian and Georgian
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IV. Speaking about Georgian
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D. Discussion
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Chapter 6: Transformations: The end of the Soviet Union as a turning point
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A. How to avoid talking about the end of the Soviet Union
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B. The end of the Soviet Union as “Family Breakdown”
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I. “Georgia for Georgians”: The dissolution of the “Family of Nations”
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II. “Staying behind”: Coming to terms with emigrating family members
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C. Discussion
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Chapter 7: (Un)Making boundaries
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A. Greece: Dealing with boundaries drawn by Others
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I. Being categorized as “Different” in Greece
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II. Relating “Nation” and “Citizenship”
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III. Contesting the category “Greek”
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IV. Preliminary summary
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B. Ts’alk’a: Struggling to belong
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C. Belonging to Georgia and blurring boundaries
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D. Irreducible differences? “Religion” and “Ancestry”
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277–288
Chapter 8: Discussion
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Chapter 9: Conclusion
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Appendix A: Sociolinguistic metadata
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Bibliography
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Boundaries and Belonging in the Greek Community of Georgia , page 93 - 172
“Language” as a resource for positioning
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Concha Maria Höfler
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doi.org/10.5771/9783845290508-93
ISBN print: 978-3-8487-4832-7
ISBN online: 978-3-8452-9050-8
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