Drifting borders, anchored community: re-reading narratives in the semiotic landscape with ethnic Lithuanians living at the Polish borderland

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Title:
Drifting borders, anchored community: re-reading narratives in the semiotic landscape with ethnic Lithuanians living at the Polish borderland
Authors:
Kudžmaitė, Gintarė
In the Journal:
Identities: global studies in culture and power. 2024, vol. 31, iss. 2, p. 199-217
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LT
Etninės grupės / Ethnic groups; Kultūrinis identitetas / Cultural identitity; Lietuva (Lithuania); Lenkija (Poland).
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ENEveryday lives at the borders have lately been of interest in academic research. Drawing on visual elicitation interviews, this study analyses how ethnic Lithuanians living on the Polish borderland interpret images of the landscape which they inhabit. The aim of this analysis is to understand how these borderlanders position themselves vis-à-vis socio-spatial borderland realities, and how visual materials can instigate extensive plotted narratives. The results demonstrate that the Lithuanian minority in Poland not only challenges or accepts the public narratives, but that they also use them as props to create a unified narrative about their identification and belonging, which transgresses time, place and situated events. Keywords: borders, borderland minorities, border narratives, narrative identities, visual elicitation, semiotic landscape. [From the publication]

DOI:
10.1080/1070289X.2023.2189351
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1547-3384; 1070-289X
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2025-02-21 21:37:02
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