Rural Community Exceptionality: Analyzing Discursive Cultural Identity Formation in the Qualitative Interview
| atmire.migration.oldid | 630 | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Atkins, Dr. Chloe | |
| dc.contributor.author | Arntsen, Burke | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-24T17:02:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-06-15T07:01:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-01-24 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2013 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Using interview data collected from the case study community of Dinsmore, Saskatchewan, I examine how rural community members, in the context of significant socio-economic change, construct cultural identity within the qualitative interview. Sociological concepts of community and rurality are ultimately culturally evocative and embedded interpretive repertoires, which are discursively employed to achieve multiple personal and cultural identity projects. Therefore, I employ a critical discourse analysis, which analyzes how participants are concurrently being made into particular subjects by discursive practices, while also creating and re-constructing their own meanings of reality via everyday talk. I find participants privilege a very specific construction of ‘smallness’, as in small numbers of people, and ‘small town’, to make selves exceptional when compared to an increasingly urban social context. I argue by solely privileging a demographic construction of community, of vulnerable populations, gives participants the opportunity to construct sympathetic identities positioned as survivors of loss. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Arntsen, B. (2013). Rural Community Exceptionality: Analyzing Discursive Cultural Identity Formation in the Qualitative Interview (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27697 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/27697 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11023/460 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Graduate Studies | |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Calgary | en |
| dc.publisher.place | Calgary | en |
| dc.rights | University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. | |
| dc.subject | Canadian Studies | |
| dc.subject.classification | Discursive rural Canadian cultural identity studies | en_US |
| dc.title | Rural Community Exceptionality: Analyzing Discursive Cultural Identity Formation in the Qualitative Interview | |
| dc.type | master thesis | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Culture and Society | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Calgary | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts (MA) | |
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