Kebabi, Amina;
(2024)
'Identity' is not only about human relations: the relevance of human-to-non-human interaction in 'identity' articulation.
Language and Intercultural Communication
, 24
(1)
pp. 6-19.
10.1080/14708477.2023.2252779.
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Abstract
This paper concerns the construction of ‘cultural identity’ in the personal everyday lives of a group of high-status professionals living in the UK, who happen to be academics. The paper focuses on the relevance of non-human categories in ‘identity’ construction and advocates for broadening our understanding of this debatable term by acknowledging the relevance of human-to-non-human relations in intercultural communication. The findings demonstrate that non-human categories such as naming, death, and food are central in ‘identity’ construction. This conceptualisation of ‘identity’ broadens our understanding of this highly contested concept and acknowledges the centrality of non-human entities in its manifestation.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | 'Identity' is not only about human relations: the relevance of human-to-non-human interaction in 'identity' articulation |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14708477.2023.2252779 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2023.2252779 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Cultural identity; human-tonon-human relations; posthumanism; intercultural communication; nonessentialism |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10206297 |
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