Dislocations/Relocations : Narratives of Displacement

The centrality of narrative analysis in the investigation of social processes and practices has become an established fact in the human sciences. The focus on narrative and displacement in this volume provides a starting point for a reflection on current issues in narrative theory as well as a timely interrogation of the role of narrative in illuminating social phenomena that are central to modernity such as migration and displacement.

At the centre of the analyses presented in the book are stories that are ignored, silenced and othered by contemporary public discourses on displacement, migration and settlement. Drawing on insights from narrative theory, linguistic ethnography, sociolinguistics and cultural studies, contributors to the volume examine both how migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and marginalized minorities position themselves through narrative practices and how they are positioned in institutional and official narratives.

Dislocations/Relocations: Contents

Introduction

Dislocations/Relocations: Narratives of Displacement - Anna De Fina and Mike Baynham

Section I: Orientation in Social Worlds

Network and Agency in the Migration Stories of Moroccan Women - Mike Baynham

Contesting Social Place: Narratives of Language Conflict - Ana María Relaño Pastor and Anna De Fina

West Germans Moving East: Place, Political Space, and Positioning in Conversational Narratives - Grit Liebscher and Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain

Section II: Displacement and Spacialization Practices

Dreams of Blood: Zinacantecs in Oregon - John B. Haviland

In and Out of Class, Codes and Control: Globalization, Discourse and Mobility - Jan Blommaert

Working with Webs: Narrative Constructions of Forced Removal and Relocation - Kay McCormick

Section III: Institutional Placement and Displacement

Displacement in Asylum Seekers’ Narratives - Katrijn Maryns

The Registration Interview: Restricting Refugees’ Narrative Performances - Marco Jacquemet

Stories from the Court of Appeal in Literature and Law - Robert F. Barsky

Afterword:’Story, Place and Encounter’ - James Collins

Mike Baynham & Anna de Fina (Eds) Dislocations/Relocations : Narratives of Displacement. Manchester: St Jerome (2005)