Circulation and localization of a transnational founding story in a social movement

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_FAD289535DDC
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Titre
Circulation and localization of a transnational founding story in a social movement
Périodique
International Journal of the Sociology of Language
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Garrido  Maria Rosa
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2018
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
250
Pages
113-135
Langue
anglais
Notes
In Adriana Patiño-Santos and Ana María Relaño-Pastor (Ed.), Special Issue: Storytelling in Globalized Spaces: A Linguistic Ethnographic Perspective.
Résumé
This article investigates the circulation and appropriation of the “origins” story in a social movement called Emmaus. In particular, it analyzes storytelling in two localities, Barcelona and London, at critical moments when collective identity is foregrounded for different socio-political purposes. Emmaus is a transnational social movement that (re)inserts marginalized people who live and work with more privileged members in local groups called “communities” dedicated to recycling and social projects. Ethnography is essential to situate and understand narratives in broader interactional and socio-political contexts. My multi-sited ethnography (2011–2012) affords an outlook on the storytelling practices that produce and negotiate a cultural chronoscope, “depictions of place-time-and-personhood” to which participants orient when they interact with each other (including telling their life stories) within Emmaus. Situated storytelling constructs a collective identity across linguistic and national borders at a particular sociohistorical juncture. The Emmaus story constructs a certain
worldview and person types within an imagined community made up of (narrated) others all over the globe. The Emmaus chronoscope is based on the encounter between two individuals from different backgrounds, which will transform their reasons to live thanks to the shared value of solidarity with others.
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