‘Controlled Disruptions’: How Ethnic Organizations Shape White Ethnic Symbolic Identities
2011; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 6; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1177/1749975510391586
ISSN1749-9763
Autores Tópico(s)Migration, Refugees, and Integration
ResumoWhile connecting individual ethnic practices with global identity projects remains challenging, ethnic organizations provide a possible place where the negotiation and enactment of both occur. This article investigates how organized performances and competitions of symbolic white ethnic identity become structurally similar at a global level while also at the same time integrating disruptions at the local level. Specifically, the author argues that a hierarchy of particular Irish step dance practices emerged through controlled disruptions within and among dance academies and regulatory organizations in the social field of Irish step dance, sanctioning modified forms of Irishness believed to be most competitive in Ireland. This article examines the role that organizations play in sanctioning world models and controlling disruptions in the everyday symbolic enactment of Irish identity.
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