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“Here they called us Turks, in Turkey they Called us Infidels”. A Biographical Approach to Ethnic Identity
“Here they called us Turks, in Turkey they Called us Infidels”. A Biographical Approach to Ethnic Identity

Author(s): Christian Geiselmann, Teodora Karamelska
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН

Summary/Abstract: In the first part of this paper, we will introduce the theoretical framework for analyzing autobiographical narratives as it has been developed by the German sociologists Fritz Schütze and Gabriele Rosenthal, and later has been adapted by Koleva, Popova and others. In the second part we will use this methodology to analyze empirical data that have been collected as part of a study on ethnic identity and the risk of inter-ethnic conflict in Bulgaria.1 We focus in this paper on the question how people belonging to the group of “ethnic Turks” in Bulgaria define their ethnicity, between the competing contexts of the past (in form of their experience) and the present (in form of what they remember and how they re-actualize it in their biographical narratives).

  • Issue Year: 42/2010
  • Issue No: Spec. 2
  • Page Range: 122-140
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: English