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The promise of a name: Identity, difference, and political movement in Macedonia

abstract: Naming and naming practices take place at various sites associated with international politics. These sites include border crossings, migrations, diasporas, town halls, and offices of political parties representing minorities. This project is an investigation of these and other sites. It takes seriously questions of names and naming practices and particularly asks how people participate in these practices, often doing so with states and state authorities. It not only looks at and discusses how people proceed in these practices but also assesses the implications for people regarding how and when they can be at home as well as how and where they can move. Through an ethnography of Aegean Macedonians involving interviews, participant observation, and archival research, I find that naming practices occur well beyond the sites where they are expected. Names themselves are the result of negotiation and are controlled neither by their bearers nor those who would name. Similarity of demonyms with toponyms, do not ensure that bearers of such demonyms will be at home in the place that shares there name. Changes in names significance of names occur rapidly and these names turn home into abroad and hosts into guests. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Political Science 2014

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:25141
Date January 2014
ContributorsPout, Daniel (Author), Doty, Roxanne L (Advisor), Ashley, Richard K (Committee member), Jonsson, Hjorleifur (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDoctoral Dissertation
Format182 pages
Rightshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved

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