The discursive construction of identity and space among mobile people / Roberta Piazza.

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Piazza, Roberta

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Advances in Sociolinguistics Series | Advances in sociolinguisticsPublication details: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.Description: ix, 200 p. : ill. pbkISBN:

9781350053502
9781350195455

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: The discursive construction of identity and space among mobile peopleDDC classification:

362.592 23 PIA

Contents:

1. Introduction 2. Theoretical Framework of the Study 3. Methodology of the Study 4. Locating the Transient Self in a Transient Heterotopia: Squatting as an Affective and Entrepreneurial Proposition 5. 'We Don't Need a Castle. We Need a Home': Desire for Place in a Travellers' Transit Site 6. Irish Travellers: Mobility within Immobility 7. Rough Sleepers: 'Homeless is What I Am, Not Who I Am.' Rough Sleeping as a Liminal Condition not the Essence of Being 8. Conclusions

Summary: This book offers a close look at the discourse of and around three socially marginalised and vulnerable groups – Irish Travellers, Squatters and Homeless people – in order to understand more about how individuals within them position themselves vis-à-vis mainstream society. It investigates the groups' diverse and provisional relationship with space that challenges mainstream society's spatial logic. Given that the relationship between mobility, space and identity has been explored in migrant contexts, Roberta Piazza proposes a reconsideration of this relationship beyond people's movement from one place to another. Investigating the space-identity nexus among the three groups, she highlights how mobility is not solely a cross-country phenomenon, but a no-less crucial and dramatic reality within an individual nation. Based on close linguistic analysis of interviews collected over many years, Piazza investigates how the participants construct their social and personal identities when talking about themselves and the sites they inhabit, drawing on the concepts of 'heterotopia' and non-sexual desire.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Framework of the Study
3. Methodology of the Study
4. Locating the Transient Self in a Transient Heterotopia: Squatting as an Affective and Entrepreneurial Proposition
5. 'We Don't Need a Castle. We Need a Home': Desire for Place in a Travellers' Transit Site
6. Irish Travellers: Mobility within Immobility
7. Rough Sleepers: 'Homeless is What I Am, Not Who I Am.' Rough Sleeping as a Liminal Condition not the Essence of Being
8. Conclusions

This book offers a close look at the discourse of and around three socially marginalised and vulnerable groups – Irish Travellers, Squatters and Homeless people – in order to understand more about how individuals within them position themselves vis-à-vis mainstream society. It investigates the groups' diverse and provisional relationship with space that challenges mainstream society's spatial logic.

Given that the relationship between mobility, space and identity has been explored in migrant contexts, Roberta Piazza proposes a reconsideration of this relationship beyond people's movement from one place to another. Investigating the space-identity nexus among the three groups, she highlights how mobility is not solely a cross-country phenomenon, but a no-less crucial and dramatic reality within an individual nation.

Based on close linguistic analysis of interviews collected over many years, Piazza investigates how the participants construct their social and personal identities when talking about themselves and the sites they inhabit, drawing on the concepts of 'heterotopia' and non-sexual desire.

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